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FAMILY XI. — LYG^EID^E. 



(Original) . 



bar behind middle and the apex, fus- 

 rss^ cous, the costal area and a triangular 

 spot near inner apical angle pale yel- 

 low; scutellum with an oblique stripe 

 each side paler than the disk; mem- 

 brane pale brown or fuscous, the apex 

 and veins paler; antennae pale reddish- 

 brown, the tips of second and third 

 joints and apical two-thirds of fourth 

 fuscous-brown; under surface dark 

 brown; legs dull yellow, the hind 

 femora with a preapical dark ring. 

 Front lobe of pronotum almost im- 

 punctate, its convex disk not inter- 

 rupted ; hind lobe, except nodulose 

 angles, rather finely and evenly punc- 

 tate. Scutellum thickly punctate, the 

 pale line each side smooth. Length, 

 6—6.5 mm. (Fig. 87). 



Occurs throughout Indiana, but 

 scarce, April 8 — Dec. 3. Hiber- 

 nates beneath logs, and in spring and summer taken beneath 

 cover in low marshy places, or swept from herbage in similar 

 localities. Dunedin, Lakeland and R. P. Park, Fla., March 2 — 

 Sept. 1 ; taken at porch light on the latter date. Recorded from 

 Biscayne Bay and Kissimmee, Fla., but apparently less com- 

 mon in that State than most of the species which follow. 

 Uhler's type of picturata was from Cambridge, Mass., and its 

 known range extends from New England west to Indiana and 

 southwest to Florida, Texas and Arizona. He records it as 

 "very rare near Baltimore, obtained from spots covered with 

 rank growths late in July." Barber (1923, 731) says it is 

 "frequently taken by sifting dead leaves in the late fall, or 

 found sheltering under boards on the ground." It varies much 

 in color, the head and pronotum being often as pale as the other 

 parts of upper surface. 



362 ( — ) . OZOPHORA REPERTA sp. nov. 



Form and color of picturata, but averaging smaller. Dark cross-bar 

 of corium usually interrupted and in pale specimens almost obsolete. 

 Pronotum very different, as noted in key, its front lobe much narrower, 

 more subglobose, the transverse convexity divided to form two smooth 

 oblique lozenge-shaped spaces; hind lobe more distinctly and deeply 

 punctate. Costal margins of corium feebly sinuate at basal third. Front 

 femora more slender than in picturata, the preapical spines blackish, 

 much smaller and only two in number. Beak reaching second ventral. 

 Length, 5 — 6 mm. 



