SUBFAMILY VII. — RHYPAROCHROMIN^E. 403 



Mexico and ranging from North Carolina to Texas, the West 

 Indies and Argentina. The sterna are always dark, the abdo- 

 men often reddish-brown. In the paler specimens the dark 

 transverse bar of corium often encloses a small triangular pale 

 spot at inner apical angle. 



347 (550). Orth^ea servillei (Guerin), 1857, 399. 



Differs from bilobata mainly by characters given in key. General 

 color pale reddish-brown above and beneath; dark cross-bar of corium 

 interrupted to form several oblong spots, the one on costal margin reach- 

 ing its edge; membrane pale brown vaguely mottled with darker, the 

 veins and an oblong spot at apex paler; front femora usually in great 

 part brown or piceous, the knees paler; middle and hind ones with a 

 dark preapical ring. Front lobe of pronotum slightly shorter and head 

 more porrect than in bilobata. Length, 5 — 5.3 mm. 



Dunedin, Moore Haven, R. P. Park and Lake Okeechobee, Fla., 

 scarce, Dec. 10 — April 6. Dunedin specimens were taken on 

 the latter date by beating bunches of Spanish moss, the others 

 by sweeping in low moist grounds. Taken at Crescent City, 

 Fla., by Van Duzee. Described from Cuba and occurs also in 

 Mexico. 



VI. Zeridoneus Barber, 1918b, 45. 



Elongate, slender species having the head porrect, the space 

 between front of eyes and base of antennae subequal to that 

 behind eyes; antennae almost nude, the basal joint exceeding 

 tylus by one-third its length; first joint of beak almost reach- 

 ing base of head, second longer than third ; pronotum shallowly 

 constricted just behind middle, its front lobe with distinct col- 

 lar; scutellum much longer than wide, carinate throughout; 

 front femora armed beneath with several unequal subapical 

 teeth. Other characters as in generic key. One species is 

 known. 



348 (545). Zeridoneus costalis (Van Duzee), 1909b, 373. 



Elongate, slender, sides subparallel. Head, front lobe of pronotum, 

 except collar, scutellum and under surface dull black, the head and ven- 

 trals thickly clothed with fine prostrate yellow hairs ; hind lobe of 

 pronotum with side margins and three discal stripes dull yellow; corium 

 dark brown to blackish, punctate with fuscous, the entire costal margin 

 and usually a small spot at inner apical angle straw-yellow; membrane 

 dusky-brown, the veins paler; antennae reddish-brown, the fourth joint, 

 base of first and apical half of third fuscous ; legs dull yellow, the apical 

 naif of front femora and tips of the others shining black or fuscous. 

 Front lobe of pronotum subglobose, narrower and one-half longer than 



