442 FAMILY XII. — PYRRHOCORID^. 



aa. Corium not red and without a black spot; length, 11.5 or more mm. 



b. Ventral segments red or brown, their hind margins white; femora 



red. 



c. Corium pale with a black or brown stripe, or black or brown with 



a wide pale outer margin; hind lobe of pronotum impunctate; 



scutellum black. 399. mimus. 



cc. Corium black or brown with narrow costal and apical margins 



pale; hind lobe of pronotum evidently but shallowly punctate; 



scutellum dull red. 400. suturellus. 



bb. Ventrals black; femora piceous. 401. obscuratus. 



398 (632). Dysdercus andre^e (Linnaeus), 1758, 448. 



Elongate-oval. Clear red; front and hind submargins and narrow 

 edge of side margins of pronotum, disk of clavus, spot on apical third 

 of corium, antennae, tibia? and tarsi, dull fuscous to black; narrow front 

 and hind margins of pronotum, inner and apical margins of corium, outer 

 edge of clavus and hind margin of each ventral segment yellowish-white ; 

 membrane purplish-black, the very narrow margin white. Pronotum im- 

 punctate, its side margins slightly concave. Length, 8 — 11.5 mm. 



Baracon, Cuba, April (Davis). Jamaica, W. I. (Gerhard). 

 Taken at Biscayne Bay, Fla., by Mrs. A. T. Slosson. Van Duzee 

 (1907, 18) records it as very common in Jamaica, occurring in 

 great numbers on trees and bushes and frequently coming to 

 light at night. Hunter (1902) states that in Cuba it often 

 does much damage to cotton, dwarfing the bolls and staining 

 the fibre. He calls it the "St. Andrew's cotton-stainer" in al- 

 lusion to the white cross formed by the markings on the elytra, 

 and adds "more than a century ago Sloane, a traveller in 

 Jamaica, referred to the insect as 'a Cimex of a scarlet-red with 

 a white St. Andrew's cross on its back.' It is very often to be 

 met with amongst flowers." The Capsus ocreatus Say (I, 338), 

 Van Duzee No. 634, is probably this species. Say's descrip- 

 tion, as far as it goes, agrees with andrea. He does not men- 

 tion the "cross" on the back, but perhaps had a specimen in 

 which it was absent as it is in one before me. His type was 

 from Georgia and no subsequent record has been made. 



399 (627). Dysdercus mimus (Say), 1832, 20; I, 338. 



Elongate, narrowly oval. Color and size exceedingly variable, 

 usually with occiput, antennae, disk of hind lobe of pronotum, scutellum, 

 clavus and disk of corium dark brown to blackish fuscous; head (except 

 occiput) extreme base of antennae and front lobe of pronotum (except 

 collar) bright red; side margins of pronotum and broad outer margin 

 of corium ochre yellow; membrane brown, its edge narrowly pale; col- 

 lar, hind margin of each ventral segment and coxal plates ivory-white; 

 front half or more of each ventral red or brown; femora red, tibiae and 



