THE RED-BUG FAMILY. 439 



throughout Florida as far south as Ft. Myers. A species of 

 southern range, extending along the Atlantic coast from New 

 York southwest to Florida, Texas, Colorado and Arizona, part 

 of the records probably referring to the next. Uhler records 

 it (1884, 288) as "living along the borders of oak woods in 

 Maryland and Virginia, appearing fully adult in the months of 

 July and August. The young stages are of a brilliant steel- 

 blue color with reddish legs and a bright red spot at the base of 

 the abdomen." Morrill (1910, 94) mentions it as injurious to 

 cotton bolls in Texas and states that its host plant in that 

 region is the weed, Solanum torreyi Gray. 



394 (618). Euryophthalmus davisi (Barber), 1914, 507. 



Elongate-oval, robust. Disk of front lobe of pronotum, basal half 

 or more of scutellum and entire under surface dull black, densely clothed 

 with a short, fine, silvery gray pubescence; membrane pale brown; 

 remainder of upper surface dull red punctured with fuscous, and more 

 sparsely pubescent. Antenna? and legs black, the bases of femora red. 

 Third joint of antenna? half the length of second, the two united subequal 

 to first. Pronotum relatively narrower and slightly shorter than in 

 succinctus, its disk feebly declivent from the base forward ; hind lobe 

 more finely punctate. Length, 10 — 14 mm. 



Moore Haven, Caxambus, R. P. Park, Sarasota and Dunedin, 

 Fla., Dec. 2 — April 12. Frequent about Dunedin on low herb- 

 age and beneath cover along the margins of wet-weather ponds. 

 The types were from St. Augustine and as far as known it 

 occurs only along or near the coasts of that State. It was men- 

 tioned by Uhler (1876, 315) as being a variety of succinctus "of 

 a dirty sand-red occurring on the sea-islands of Florida ;" also 

 (1884, 288) "specimens (of succinctus) from the sea-coast of 

 Florida are of a pale tile-red color above and bluish-gray be- 

 neath." Aside from color, the longer fourth antennal and more 

 densely pubescent surface easily distinguish it from succinctus. 



395 (620). Euryophthalmus sellatus (Guerin), 1857, 401. 



Oblong-oval. Head, antenna?, middle of thorax, scutellum, base of 

 clavus, corium in great part, sterna, tibia? and tarsi dull black, sparsely 

 and finely pubescent; hind lobe of pronotum, a large common spot on 

 clavus and corium and entire membrane dull yellow; apical fourth and 

 side margins of pronotum, costal margin of corium and front and middle 

 femora orange red; hind femora with apical half in great r>art b^ack. 

 First and fourth joints of antenna? subequal, second and third united 

 subequal to fourth. Pronotum with sides sinuate near middle; front 

 lobe with central black portion of disk elevated, depressed orange portion 



