410 FAMILY XI. — LYG^ID^E. 



Indian Lake, Sabael, N. Y., Aug. 4 — 8 {Barber). Known from 

 Maine, New York, Texas and New Mexico. This is the Car- 

 pilis ferruginea of Stal, based upon the brachypterous form from 

 Texas. Barber (1918b, 46) first described the macropterous 

 form and placed it in the present genus. 



356 ( — ). Ptochiomera barberi Blatchley, 1924, 89. 



Oblong-oval. Male with head, pronotum, base of scutellum and under 

 surface dark reddish-brown; elytra, nodulose hind angles of pronotum 

 and apical half of scutellum in part, pale brownish-yellow, their punc- 

 tures but slightly darker; antenna? reddish-brown, the base of second 

 joint paler; legs and beak pale yellow. Female with hind lobe of prono- 

 tum dull yellow with three brown stripes at middle and apical half of 

 corium often with several oblong fuscous blotches. Antennas relatively 

 stout, as long as head and pronotum united; first joint stout, subcylin- 

 drical, exceeding tip of tylus by half its length; second subclavate, 

 twice the length of fourth, three times that of third, the third joint and 

 apical half of second as stout as fourth. Brachypterous form with prono- 

 tum subcylindrical, front lobe scarcely wider and three times as long as 

 hind one, minutely punctate, its sides straight, very feebly converging 

 from base to apex; hind lobe with hind angles strongly nodulose, rather 

 coarsely rugosely punctate. Scutellum sparsely punctate, the preapical 

 median carina very fine. Elytra obovate, the corium and clavus scarcely 

 differentiated; membrane absent, corium reaching fifth dorsal, its hind 

 margin obliquely truncate. Front femora strongly swollen, armed be- 

 neath with two rows of fine subequal teeth; front tibia? of males strongly 

 curved, armed beneath at apical fifth with an acute tooth. Length, 

 2.8—3 mm. 



Dunedin, R. P. Park and Cape Sable, Fla., Dec. 30— March 

 22; taken at Dunedin from beneath boards on the bay beach 

 and sifted from debris around the base of tufts of grass. In 

 one of the females the right antenna is but 3-jointed, the usual 

 short third joint being absent. Named in honor of H. G. Bar- 

 ber, of Roselle, N. J., our leading American authority on the 

 Lygaeidas. The form of pronotum and antennal segments and 

 the dark hue of hind lobe of pronotum in male easily distin- 

 guish this from ferruginea Stal. 



These two species represent in the United States the genus 

 Carpilis of Stal, erected in 1874 with ferruginea as the type. 

 They differ from our other Ptochiomera in having the antennae 

 shorter with last three joints furnished with stiff erect hairs, 

 in the toothed front tibiae of males and in the front lobe of 

 pronotum being more than twice the length of hind one. These 

 characters are, in my opinion, of sufficient value to retain Car- 



