SUBFAMILY VII. — RHYPAROCHROMIN^]. 405 



about two-thirds the length of front one, its disk rather coarsely acicu- 

 late-punctate. Corium, clavus and sides of scutellum more or less thickly 

 punctate. Other characters as above given. Length, 7.5 — 9 mm. (Fig. 

 85). 



Lake, Vermilion, Marion, Vigo and Crawford counties, Ind., 

 scarce, June 19 — Nov. 30. Holland, Mich., June 10. Dunedin, 

 Fla., Feb. 25 — April 8. In Indiana it has been taken beneath 

 logs in November ; on herbage along streams and on mullein in 

 sandy localities in June and July and beneath sphagnum moss 

 in August. At Dunedin, the first record for that State, taken 

 by beating dead leaves of cabbage palmetto and by sifting weed 

 debris. Its general range is northern, extending from Ontario 

 and New England west to South Dakota, Kansas and Colorado 

 and south to District of Columbia and Florida. It was formerly 

 much confused with Ligyrocoris abdominal is (Guer.) and Zcri- 

 donciis costalis (Van D.), so that many of the published locality 

 records, especially the more southern ones, are wrong. 



VIII. Tomopelta Uhler, 1893, 708. 



Small robust, subopaque species having the head triangular, 

 densely punctate, wider across eyes than front margin of 

 pronotum, inserted in thorax to eyes ; antennae rather stout, 

 longer than head and pronotum united, the joints pubescent 

 and of nearly equal thickness throughout ; beak reaching be- 

 tween the middle coxae; front lobe of pronotum much wider 

 than head, strongly convex, but slightly narrower and distinctly 

 longer than hind one, its front and side margins bordered 

 within by a row of coarse punctures ; scutellum triangular, 

 longer than wide, concave near base, the apical half with a dis- 

 tinct median carina ; elytra coarsely punctate, the costal mar- 

 gins almost straight ; membrane pale hyaline, surpassing abdo- 

 men. One species is known. 



350 (— ). Tomopelta munda Uhler, 1893, 709. 



Oblong, subglabrous. Head blackish, front lobe of pronotum, scutel- 

 lum and under surface chestnut-brown; elytra and legs straw-yellow, 

 the corium with a small submarginal spot at middle and the apex fus- 

 cous-brown; beak and antennae reddish-brown, the terminal joint of latter 

 usually paler. Joints 2 and 4 of antenna? subequal in length, 1 and 3 

 slightly shorter. Front lobe of pronotum rather strongly evenly trans- 

 versely convex, but about one-third narrower and one-half longer than 

 hind one, its sides finely margined and broadly rounded, the disk mi- 

 nutely densely punctate and with a preapical transverse row of coarse - " 

 punctures; hind lobe with hind margin broadly shallowly concave, hind 



