440 FAMILY XII. — PYRRHOCORID^E. 



with a curved row of coarse punctures; hind lobe impunctate except a 

 few punctures in front. Length, 10 mm. 



Guantanamo, Cuba, Feb. 15 (do-hard). Vinales, Cuba, Sept. 

 16 (Barber). Described from that island. Recorded from St. 

 Augustine, Fla., by Barber. The color varies to some extent, 

 the front margin of each ventral and a ring on middle femora 

 being often black. 



II. Arhaphe Herrich-Schaeffer, 1853, 175, 183. 



Elongate slender-bodied species having the head subglobose, 

 wider than pronotum, usually pilose with erect bristles, rounded 

 and sessile behind the eyes, its front almost vertical; pronotum 

 bell-shaped, strongly constricted at middle, front lobe sub- 

 globose, one-third longer and distinctly narrower than hind 

 one; scutellum large, sub-equilateral; elytra brachypterous, 

 reaching middle of third dorsal ; front femora unarmed. One 

 of the three known North American species occurs in the south- 

 ern states. 



396 (623). Arhaphe Carolina Herrich-Schaeffer, 1853, 183. 



Elongate, subparallel. Black, shining; front lobe of pronotum and 

 under surface, except middle of abdomen, densely clothed with a floccose 



yellowish-white pubescence; corium with a 

 large triangular posthumeral whitish spot, 

 the apex forward, this followed by a broad 

 velvety-black cross-bar, the apex behind this 

 yellowish-white ; membrane ye'lowish-white 

 at base, the apical third black; tarsi brown. 

 Head, pronotum, scutellum and elytra ex- 

 cept membrane, coarsely, rather sparsely 

 punctate, each puncture bearing a suberect 

 black or white stiff hair. First and fourth 

 antennals subequal, third shortest. Beak 

 reaching middle coxa?. Membrane with 

 veins scarcely perceptible, reaching middle 

 of fourth dorsal. Connexivum of male al- 

 most flat, of female strongly reflexed. 

 Pig. 93, x 3. (Original). Length, 8 — 10 mm. (Fig. 93). 



Istokpoga and Dunedin, Fla., Jan. 4 — March 29; one speci- 

 men taken at each place while sweeping Ericads ; four others at 

 Dunedin hibernating in bases of tufts of grass along a sandy 

 roadway. No other Florida record. Rabun Co., Ga., July 

 (Davis). Mobile, Ala., Feb. 12 (Gerhard). Ranges from "Caro- 

 lina," the type locality, southwest to Texas and Mexico. 



