402 FAMILY XI. — LYG^ID^. 



310) states that: "It is common near Baltimore on the soils in 

 the region of the metamorphic rocks ; living in wheat and grass 

 fields during spring and summer and hibernating beneath the 

 rocks upon the arrival of cold weather." 



345 (548). ORTHvEA curvipes (Stal), 1874, 148. 



Very close to basal is; somewhat smaller and narrower. Color much 

 the same, the hind lobe of pronotum distinctly paler than front one, more 

 convex than in basalis. Other differences as in key. Length, 3.7 — 4 mm. 



Dunedin and R. P. Park, Fla., Dec. 30 — April 5 ; occurring 

 with basal is; the first record for that State. Lake Pontchart- 

 rain, La. (Davis). Described from North Carolina and ranges 

 from there to Texas, New Mexico and the West Indies. It is 

 very probable that this will prove to be a synonym of basalis. 

 Stal (1874, 152) evidently did not know either basalis or vincta, 

 but knew parvulus (Dall.), a synonym of ■vincta. In his descrip- 

 tion of curvipes he compares it with parvulus. Now basalis has 

 the front tibiae more strongly curved than vincta and his de- 

 scription of curvipes agrees in all respects with basalis. How- 

 ever, until his type can be compared with basalis, it is better to 

 retain his name for the form above described. 



345 (549). Orth^ea bilobata (Say), 1832, 17; I, 334. 



Elongate, slender. Head, pronotum, scutellum and under surface 

 dark reddish-brown to piceous, the hind lobe of pronotum usually with 

 two or three vague blackish stripes, sometimes almost wholly dark with 

 pale markings; corium and clavus dull white with fuscous punctures, the 

 former usually with a stripe along claval suture, an angulate cross-bar 

 behind middle and the tip fuscous or piceous; membrane pale brown, its 

 apex rarely with a whitish spot; antenna? dull yellow, the apical joint 

 wholly brown or fuscous; legs dull brownish-yellow, front femora some- 

 times tinged with piceous, tips of hind ones darker, apical joint of tarsi 

 fuscous. Head in front of eyes very evidently declivent. Pronotum with 

 front lobe subcylindrical, sides rounded, disk, exclusive of collar, about 

 one-third longer and distinctly narrower than hind lobe, the latter 

 sparsely, finely punctate. Scutellum with disk punctate along the sides, 

 more sparsely so near base, the apical half with an obtuse smooth keel. 

 Front femora armed beneath with two rows of small unequal teeth. 

 Length, 4.8 — 5.3 mm. 



Common throughout Florida ; taken by me at almost all 

 collecting stations and recorded from numerous others, Oct. 26 

 — April 2. Hibernates in bunches of dead vines, bases of tufts 

 of grass and beneath rubbish and taken both on islands and 

 mainland by sweeping low herbage, usually in damp localities. 

 A neotropical species described by Say from Louisiana and 



