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FAMILY XI. — LYG^ID^E. 



larly punctate, the former with an obtuse V-shape ridge smooth. Clavus 

 and corium with regular rows of punctures, the latter with numerous 

 others on apical half. Length, 7 — 8 mm. 



Royal Palm Park, Fla., March 16 ; two specimens beaten from 

 dead leaves of royal palm lying in a pathway of the dense ham- 

 mock on Paradise Key. Described from Cuba. Taken in 

 Florida heretofore only at Biscayne Bay. 



329 (528). Her^eus plebejus Stal, 1874, 147. 



Narrowly elongate; thinly clothed with short, yellowish pubescence. 

 Head, front lobe of pronotum, scutellum and under surface dull brown- 

 ish- or blackish-piceous; hind lobe of pro- 

 notum and elytra dark reddish-brown, their 

 margins and tip of scutellum paler; disk 

 of corium with some vague yellowish spots 

 near hind margin, its apex fuscous ; mem- 

 brane brown, its nerves paler; antenna? red- 

 dish-brown, the fourth joint and apex of 

 third darker; front femora reddish-brown 

 to piceous, middle and hind femora and all 

 tibiae pale yellow, the femora with a dark 

 subapical ring. Scutellum and hind lobe 

 of pronotum sparsely and finely punctate, 

 the former with an obtuse median smooth 

 line. Corium and clavus with more or less 

 regular rows of punctures. Other charac- 

 ters as in generic description. Length, 

 4.5—5.5 mm. (Fig. 84). 



Marion, Vigo, Posey and Perry 

 Fig. 84, (original), counties, Ind. , April 10— Oct. 13. 



Dunedin and R. P. Park, Fla., March 15— Sept. 1 (W.S.B.). 

 Sherborn, Mass., Oct. 18 (Frost). Scarce in Indiana, where it 

 occurs beneath stones and rubbish and is occasionally swept 

 from foliage, especially sumac. Single specimens were taken 

 at Dunedin at porch light on each of the dates mentioned, and 

 numerous others in the winter by beating Spanish moss and the 

 dead leaves of cabbage palmetto. The only other Florida rec- 

 ords are Sanford and Everglade, April. Ranges from Massa- 

 chusetts west to southern Indiana and Kansas and southwest 

 to Florida, Texas and Arizona. Van Duzee found it near Buf- 

 falo, N. Y., "concealed in moss in January," so that in the 

 north it probably hibernates as imago. One of the Indiana 

 specimens was once named by Uhler as Heroeus orbicollis Uhler. 



