368 



FAMILY XI. — LYG^EID^. 



Dunedin and R. P. Park, Fla., Feb. 16— March 13. Taken 

 at Dunedin by sweeping herbage in low moist places ; at the 

 Park by sifting grass-roots in rocky pine glades. Described 

 from Jacksonville, Fla., and Raleigh, N. Car. ; recorded else- 

 where only from Little River, Fla. In the macropterous form 

 the inner two veins of membrane are united at apex, the outer 

 three entire, separate at base. 



310 ( — ). Ischnodemus minutus Blatchley, 1925, 45; 1925a, 245. 



Elongate, very slender. Braehypterous form with body wholly black, 

 thickly clothed with very fine silvery-gray pubescence, the head and 

 pronotum with a bluish tinge; pronotum with a velvety black bar across 

 the basal fourth; antennae and legs pale brownish-yellow, the apical joint 

 of former piceous-black; beak dark brown, the basal 

 joint paler; elytra as in key. Antennae about as 

 long as head and pronotum united, joint 1 not pass- 

 ing tip of tylus, 2 and 3 slender, the latter slightly 

 the shorter, 4 fusiform, one-half longer and much 

 stouter than either. Beak reaching middle coxae. 

 Pronotum subquadrate, its disk nearly evenly convex, 

 finely, evenly and sparsely punctate, without either 

 transverse or longitudinal impression, its sides paral- 

 lel from base to middle, rounded and converging near 

 apex. Scutellum small, flat, impunctate. Elytra 

 reaching only to base of second dorsal, their tips 

 narrowly rounded and separated by a space nearly 

 equal to their width, their inner margins oblique. 

 Length, 3—3.3 mm. (Fig. 78). 



Fig. 78, X 11. 



(Original.. Dunedin and R. P. Park, Fla., Dec. 4— 



March 31. A dozen or more specimens were taken at Dunedin 

 in February and March by sifting the roots of tufts of grass 

 in low moist grounds. At the Park eight were taken in De- 

 cember and March in the same manner. It is our smallest 

 and blackest species, easily known by the subquadrate, evenly 

 convex pronotum with black basal cross-bar, large piceous 

 apical antennal and small white elytral pads. Originally de- 

 scribed as /. pusillus, which name was preoccupied by Dallas for 

 a South African species. 



311 (495). Ischnodemus badius Van Duzee, 1909, 168. 



Elongate, very slender. Pale chestnut-brown, the pronotum, con- 

 nexivum and legs dull yellow; scutellum and a submarginal line along 

 each side of dorsal surface of abdomen dark brown ; elytra dull yellow, 

 the veins darker; antennae either wholly dark brown or with the basal 

 joints slightly paler. Beak reaching middle coxae, its second joint sur- 

 passing head by nearly half its length. Second and fourth antennals 

 subequal in length, third shorter. Pronotum oblong, sides straight and 



