382 FAMILY XI. — LYGJEWJE. 



II. (Edancala Amyot & Serville, 1843, 258. 



Elongate, rather robust species having the head slightly de- 

 clivent, longer than wide; antennae slender, first joint as long 

 or longer than head, its apex slightly enlarged ; cheeks carinate, 

 slightly reflexed, shorter than tylus ; beak reaching on to meso- 

 sternum ; pronotum trapezoidal, sides straight, evenly converg- 

 ing from base to apex, disk finely evenly punctate and with a 

 pale smooth median line; scutellum without a similar line; 

 elytra covering the abdomen and reaching its tip, hind margin 

 of corium straight. Females with fifth ventral as in Phlcgxas. 

 Two species occur in the eastern states. 



KEY TO EASTERN SPECIES OF 03DANCALA. 



a. First joint of antennae almost or quite as long as second and third 

 united; front femora not darker beneath. 323. dorsilinea. 



aa. First antennal scarcely two-thirds as long as second and third 

 united ; front femora shining black or piceous beneath. 



324. dorsalis. 



323 (514). (Edancala dorsilinea Amyot & Serville, 1843, 258. 



Elongate, more slender than the next. Above pale brownish-yellow; 

 a short line between ocelli, median smooth line of pronotum and a short 

 oblique calloused spot each side of base of scutellum, pale yellow; hind 

 margin of corium with a dark dash near middle; under surface reddish- 

 brown, finely and densely silvery-pubescent; legs brownish-yellow, the 

 femora dotted with darker spots. First joint of antennae as long as 

 pronotum ; 2 — 4 much shorter, subequal. Pronotum longer and more 

 narrowed at apex than in dorsalis; disk more finely and closely punctate. 

 Front femora very strongly swollen, and armed beneath with two rows 

 of very short irregular black-tipped teeth. Length, 6.5 — 7 mm. 



Common throughout Florida, Nov. 22 — April 22. Yaphank, 

 Long Island, N. Y. (Davis). Taken by me at all collecting sta- 

 tions in Florida except Cape Sable and Key West, by sweeping 

 weeds and other vegetation along roadsides and borders of 

 fields ; also dead grasses in pine woods and along the borders 

 of wet-weather ponds. Ranges from New York southwest to 

 Florida and Texas. Berg (1879, 107) lists it from Argentina, 

 but according to Pennington (1920, 19) the species found there 

 is dorsalis Say. It is a longer, less bulky and paler species than 

 dorsalis, with pale spots on scutellum shorter and antennae very 

 different in relative length of joints. 



324 (515). (Edancala dorsalis (Say) 1832, 17; 1,335. 



Elongate, moderately robust. Above dull yellow tinged with red- 

 dish or fuscous; tylus, short line on vertex, median line and narrow side 



