394 FAMILY XI. — LYG^EID^. 



femora armed on outer edge beneath with three spines and some small 

 teeth, on inner one with several minute subapical teeth. Hind tibiae with 

 numerous erect spines. Length, 7.5 — 8.5 mm. 



Marion and Vigo counties, Ind., Aug. 12 — Sept. 28. Swept 

 from flowers of white snake-root, Eupatorium ageratoides L., and 

 other Compositse along the wooded slopes of streams. De- 

 scribed from Maryland, Illinois and Kansas. Of it Barber says : 

 "Very similar in appearance to Zeridoneus costalis (Van D.), but 

 the latter without lunate strigose vittse and with basal joint of 

 antennae fuscous and posterior lobe of pronotum with two or 

 three median longitudinal paler streaks." 



333 ( — ). Ligyrocoris depictus Barber, 1921a, 109. 



Elongate-oval. Head, front lobe of pronotum, scutellum and under 

 surface dull black, the head and ventral surface of abdomen thickly 

 clothed with prostrate yellow hairs ; hind lobe of pronotum and corium 

 in great part dark reddish-brown, the former with the nodulose hind 

 angles, the latter with a vague spot near inner apical angle and the 

 entire costal margin, straw-yellow; antennae with fourth joint and apical 

 half of third dark brown, remainder pale reddish-brown; legs and hind 

 margin of metapleura pale brownish-yellow. Third and fourth antennals 

 subequal, second one-third longer than either. Front lobe of pronotum 

 subcylindrical, nearly twice as long and but slightly narrower than 

 hind one, the latter finely and rather sparsely punctate. Elytra usually 

 slightly shorter than abdomen. Length, 5 — 6 mm. 



Bear Swamp, Ramapo Mts., N. J., July 25 (Barber). Known 

 only from New Jersey, Massachusetts and Connecticut. Re- 

 sembles very closely L. diffusus (Uhl.), but front lobe of pro- 

 notum longer, more cylindrical and devoid of erect hairs, an- 

 tennal segments longer and elytra without a postmedian trans- 

 verse dark bar. 



334 (539). Ligyrocoris litigiosus (Stal), 1862, 313. 



Elongate-oblong, sides subparallel. Head, except tylus, front lobe 

 of pronotum, scutellum and under surface blackish-brown; collar of 

 front lobe and margins and three narrow stripes on hind lobe of pro- 

 notum, dull yellow; corium dull yellow punctate with fuscous, the costal 

 margin and an oblique bar in front of apical margin straw-yellow; 

 membrane brown with numerous small vague pale spots; legs and an- 

 tennae pale dull yellow, the fourth antennal and apical fifth of hind 

 femora darker. Structural characters as in diffusus, the erect hairs 

 of pronotum fewer. Length, 5 — 6.2 mm. 



Royal Palm Park, Fla., Dec. 12 — 14 ; two specimens taken 

 beneath boards along the margins of the everglades (II '. 5". B.) . 

 Huachaca Mts., Arizona, July 10 (Barber). A neotropical 



