376 FAMILY XI. — LYG^ID^:. 



Dunedin, Fla., Dec. 2 ; a single specimen swept from low 

 huckleberry along the margins of Jerry Lake. The taking of 

 additional examples may show this to be a valid species. 



316 (499c). Geocoris discopterus Stal, 1874, 136. 



Oblong-oval; in both sexes distinctly widest behind the middle. Color 

 much as in bullatus, more tinged with reddish-brown; head with smaller 

 reddish-brown instead of blackish spot between the eyes; scutellum less 

 piceous at base, the yellow spots on sides longer; antenna? with first joint 

 blackish, its apex yellow, remaining joints reddish-brown to piceous; 

 legs wholly pale; beak, except base, piceous-black. Head, pronotum and 

 scutellum as in bullatus. Corium (brachypterous form) much more 

 widened behind, wholly coriaceous, thickly irregularly punctate; hind 

 margin obliquely broadly rounded and forming a commissure half the 

 length of scutellum, instead of straight and oblique from apical angle 

 to apex of scutellum as in bullatus; membrane very short, reaching base 

 of fifth dorsal. Abdomen with sides distinctly curved, widest behind 

 apex of scutellum. Length, 2.8 — 3.5 mm. 



Crawford and Posey counties, Ind., July 12 — Nov. 1. De- 

 scribed from New Jersey and ranges from New England to 

 southern Indiana. Recorded also by Parshley (1919, 16) from 

 Vancouver. Van Duzee, following McAfee, has made this a 

 variety of bullatus, but if form of body and texture and sculp- 

 ture of elytra count for anything in taxonomy, it is a distinct 

 species. 



317 (502). Geocoris uliginosus (Say), 1832, 19; I, 337. 



Oblong-oval; males with sides subparallel to apical fourth of ab- 

 domen ; females distinctly widened behind the middle. Black, shining, 

 the corium narrowly margined with pale; membrane brownish or whitish- 

 hyaline; antenna? wholly black, female, first and second joints black 

 with pale tips, third and fourth in part or wholly pale, male; legs pale 

 reddish-yellow, male, in great part black or piceous, female. Head dense- 

 ly and very finely rugose-punctate. Pronotum wider than long, disk 

 moderately convex, thickly and rather coarsely punctate, the nodules 

 over hind angles and a transverse elongate spot each side on apical third, 

 smooth. Scutellum as in key, its disk punctate and with a vague median 

 carina. Corium with a submarginal and two inner rows of punctures 

 and also some scattered ones near apex, the disk in great part smooth ; 

 membrane in macropterous form slightly surpassing tip of abdomen, 

 male, scarcely or fully reaching its tip, female. Length, 3.5 — 4 mm. 



Marion, Putnam, Vigo and Clark counties, Ind., Jan. 5 — Nov. 

 28 ; doubtless occurs throughout the State. Ormond, Lakeland, 

 Istokpoga, Ft. Myers and Dunedin, Fla., Oct. 25 — April 18. In 

 Indiana the typical form, as above described, is apparently less 

 common than some of its color varieties. It hibernates singly 

 or in pairs beneath logs and other cover, sometimes being found 

 in company with BHssus leucppterus (Say) and the Coccinellid 



