418 FAMILY XI. — LYG;£IDj£. 



in this country only from Florida and Texas. The pubescent 

 upper surface and uninterrupted dark bar of corium, the ends 

 of which reach the edge of costal margin, are characters easily 

 separating this species from picturata. 



365 ( — ). Ozophora pallescens (Distant) , 1893, 395. 



Smaller and much paler than picturata. Head, front lobe of prono- 

 tum and sterna dark brown; hind lobe of pronotum usually with four to 

 six alternating brown and yellow stripes, these often vague or, in the 

 paler specimens, wanting; scutellum brown with a yellow spot each side; 

 corium pale straw-yellow, its punctures reddish-brown, the extreme apex, 

 an oblong spot in front of a small pale oval one at inner apical angle and 

 a small spot opposite this on costal area, fuscous ; antennae pale brown- 

 ish-yellow, the terminal joint wholly fuscous; femora minutely dotted 

 with reddish-brown, the hind ones faintly annulate near apex; ventrals 

 reddish-brown. Convex disk of front lobe of pronotum usually more or 

 less interrupted and surrounded by numerous minute punctures. Length, 

 5.5 — 5.8 mm. 



Dunedin, Fla., Dec. 18 — March 25. I refer here a number 

 of specimens taken about Dunedin, which differ from picturata 

 in the characters described above. Distant's species is known 

 from Jamaica, Trinidad and other West India islands, but has 

 not before been recorded from Florida. The Dunedin speci- 

 mens were taken from the leaf axils of a thistle on Hog Island, 

 and by beating Spanish moss and sweping ferns in dense ham- 

 mocks on the mainland. 



366 (572). Ozophora trinotata Barber, 1914, 515. 



Elongate-oblong. Above dark reddish- to chestnut-brown; some 

 vague markings on hind lobe of pronotum, tip of scutellum, costal area 

 of corium to behind middle, and a small spot on same area near apex, 

 pale brownish-yellow; membrane dark brown; antenna? reddish-brown, 

 the tip of third joint and apical two-thirds of fourth fuscous, basal third 

 of fourth dull white; under surface fuscous-brown, finely pubescent; legs 

 and beak dull brownish-yellow. Antenna? very slender, second joint 

 reaching middle of scutellum, about one-half longer than third, the latter 

 a little shorter than fourth. Pronotum with sides less sinuate than in 

 picturata, the transverse constriction ill-defined, front lobe impunctate, 

 hind one finely and rather densely punctate. Scutellum sparsely and 

 finely punctate, its submargins smooth. Front femora not greatly swol- 

 len, armed beneath with three small preapical teeth. Length, 6 — 7 mm. 



Dunedin and R. P. Park, Fla., Sept. 1 — April 23. At Dunedin 

 taken frequently at porch-light in April and September. Occurs 

 in winter in small colonies beneath half buried logs in sandy 

 places or in the bases of tufts of grass ; in spring swept from 

 ferns in dense hammocks. Described from Marco and Ever- 



