SUBFAMILY VII. — RHYPAROCHROMIN^. 401 



latter paler at sides; elytra clay-yellow with punctures fuscous, costal 

 margin yellowish-hyaline, its tip and a vague oblique area on apical 

 fourth of corium fuscous-brown; membrane fuscous-brown, veins paler. 

 Antennae reddish-brown, joint 4 darker. Upper surface, antenna? and 

 femora rather thickly clothed with fine, suberect hairs. Pronotum sub- 

 campanulate, its front lobe almost smooth, narrower and one-half longer 

 than hind one, the latter and also the scutellum sparsely rather finely 

 punctate. Length, 4.2 — 4.5 mm. 



Central Europe, September (British Mus. Coll.). A European 

 species known in this country only from Montreal, Canada, 

 where it was taken in May by J. I. Beaulne. 



344 (554). Orth^a basalis (Dallas), 1852, 575. 



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

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

 clothed with a minute yellowish-gray pubescence; hind lobe of pronotum 

 usually paler at middle ; corium and clavus dirty white, with rows of 

 fuscous or brownish punctures, the corium with a small rounded white 

 spot in inner apical angle; membrane pale brown, the veins whitish; 

 antenna? reddish-brown, apical joint brownish-fuscous; front femora, 

 except knees, shining black, apical fourth of middle and hind ones with 

 a piceous ring. Pronotum with front lobe subglobose, stouter than in 

 vincta, about one-half longer and slightly narrower than hind one, the 

 constriction more obtuse, less deep than there; hind lobe and scutellum 

 rather coarsely irregularly punctate, the latter with a low median keel 

 toward apex. Front femora armed beneath with two rows of unequal 

 teeth. Length, 3.8 — 4.2 mm. 



Frequent throughout Indiana, more so in the southern por- 

 tion, May 5— Dec. 8. Dunedin and R. P. Park, Fla., Jan. 18— 

 April 5. Hibernates in Indiana beneath rubbish and stones 

 along the borders of fields and roadsides, and in spring and 

 summer taken by sweeping herbage in similar places. About 

 Dunedin it is fairly common on both islands and mainland, 

 hibernating in bunches of Spanish moss, in bases of tufts of 

 grass, and beneath cover along the margins of ponds and in 

 spring taken by sweeping herbage in damp soil. It is appar- 

 ently much less common in Florida than either vincta or bilobata, 

 having been recorded only from Lake City," 1 Crescent City, 

 Lakeland and Biscayne Bay. It is the only species of Orthcea 

 of wide distribution in the northern states, ranging from Mas- 

 sachusetts and Connecticut, west to Michigan, Nebraska and 

 Kansas and southwest to Florida and Texas. Uhler (1876, 



51 Quaintance (Bull. 42, p. 564, Florida Agr. Exp. Station) under the name of 

 P. vincta Say, records O. basalis as injurious to strawberries at Lake City, and calls 

 it "The Strawberry Pamera." His figure and notes under description show plainly 

 that he had at hand O. basalis, not vincta. 



