408 FAMILY XI. — LYGJEIDJE. 



moist open woods. Moore Haven, R. P. Park and Dunedin, 

 Fla., Dec. 19 — April 3. Frequent about Dunedin, hibernating 

 beneath cover near water, the nymphs with the adults in 

 February ; in spring taken by sweeping around and over the 

 sites of extinct ponds and by sifting the roots of tufts of grass. 

 Recorded from several other Florida stations. Ranges from 

 Massachusetts west to Missouri and southwest to Florida, 

 Louisiana and Texas. Of it Uhler (1876, 308) says: 



"In Maryland it is common beneath stones and is one of the first to 

 become active in spring when the severe cold of winter is past. In 

 autumn it may be met with beneath the stems of dried or drying plants 

 and bushes which have dropped their leaves. The short-winged form 

 is common in the granitic and primitive regions of the State, but it is 

 generally full-winged in the newer and more southern portions of this 

 region while farther south it is always (?) full-winged." 



In the latter statement he was wrong, as fully one-half of 

 those at hand from Florida are brachypterous. 



352 (558). Ptochiomera clavigera Uhler, 1895, 24. 



Oblong-oval. Above a nearly uniform dark reddish-brown, densely 

 and coarsely punctate with fuscous, each puncture bearing a minute yel- 

 low scale-like hair; tip of scutellum and a few small scattered spots on 

 corium dull yellow; costal margin pale at base, alternated with fuscous 

 toward apex; antennae with third joint and basal two-thirds of fourth 

 piceous, remainder reddish-brown; under surface and femora dark red- 

 dish-brown, tibiae and tarsi paler. Third antennal gradually widening 

 from base to tip, much stouter than second; fourth conical, subequal in 

 length to and slightly stouter than third. Pronotum with transverse con- 

 striction feeble, front lobe two-thirds longer than hind one. Scutellum 

 with transverse ridge obtuse, carina very low. Elytra, brachypterous 

 form, reaching base of fourth dorsal, the membrane wanting. Length, 

 2.5 — 2.8 mm. 



Lakehurst, N. J., May 20 (Barber). Known also from 

 Massachusetts, Connecticut and New York in the east, and 

 Colorado, Kansas and Texas in the west, but not recorded from 

 the intervening States. Occurs under boards and stones. 



353 (561). Ptochiomera minima (Guerin), 1857, 398. 



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

 surface dull fuscous-brown ; hind lobe of pronotum, corium and clavus 

 brownish-yellow, thickly dotted with fuscous punctures; membrane dark 

 brown, the veins near base paler; antenna? reddish-brown, the fourth 

 joint darker; femora dark brown, knees pale, beak, tibiae and tarsi 

 brownish-yellow. Antenna? slender, joint 1 stout, subclavate, 2 and 3 

 subequal in thickness, the second much the longest; 4 two-fifths longer 

 than 3. Pronotum bell-shaped, front lobe finely punctate, about one-half 



