SUBFAMILY VII. — RHYPAROCHROMIN^E. 389 



3 blackish; membrane without pale spots and those of corium vague or 

 wanting. Hind lobe of pronotum more coarsely punctate. Length, 9 — 

 9.5 mm. 



Described from a dozen or more specimens taken at Orange 

 City Junction, R. P. Park and Dunedin, Fla., Dec. 15 — April 5. 

 At Dunedin they have been found at intervals throughout the 

 winter beneath piles of dead leaves of cabbage palmetto and 

 other plant debris close to the bay front. At the Park they 

 were beaten from dead leaves of royal palm in the dense ham- 

 mock on Paradise Key. This species is apparently closely al- 

 lied to the Mexican M. longicollis Stal (1874, 146), in which the 

 last antennal is annulate but the front tibiae of male straight 

 and unarmed. 



II. Her^us Stal, 1862, 314. 



Small, elongate species having the head oval, exserted and 

 tapering to a distinct neck; antennas reaching middle of scutel- 

 lum, first joint but slightly exceeding tip of tylus, third and 

 fourth subequal, second longer ; beak reaching middle of meso- 

 sternum, its first joint shorter than base of head ; front lobe of 

 pronotum subglobose, narrower and slightly longer than hind 

 one ; scutellum elongate-triangular, its apex acute ; elytra 

 (macropterous forms) covering the abdomen and reaching its 

 tip ; front femora swollen and armed beneath with two rows of 

 short irregular spines ; hind femora with fine stiff bristles ; 

 basal joint of hind tarsi about as long as the others united. 

 Four species are known from North America, two from the 

 eastern states. 



KEY TO EASTERN SPECIES OP HER.BUS. 



«. Head, front lobe of pronotum and scutellum reddish-brown; fourth 

 antennal with a broad pale ring; legs wholly pale brownish-yel- 

 low. 328. TRIGUTTATUS. 

 aa. Head, front lobe of pronotum and scutellum black or dull brown; 

 fourth antennal without pale ring; front femora in part piceous. 



329. PLEBEJUS. 



328 (527). Her^eus triguttatus (Guerin), 1857, 400. 



Elongate, subparallel. Above reddish-brown; corium with apex 

 black and a vague fuscous cross-bar at apical third, behind which is a 

 distinct yellowish spot; membrane black; antenna? pale reddish-brown, 

 the fourth joint fuscous at base and apex; under surface reddish-brown, 

 the last three ventrals darker. Joint 1 of antenna? exceeding tylus by one- 

 third its length. Head very finely and densely strigose-punctate. Scu- 

 tellum and hind lobe of pronotum rather sparsely, coarsely and irregu- 



