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Frontal spines of head slender, porrect. Antennae stout, thickly shortly 

 pilose, reaching basal third of elytra; joint 2 slightly shorter than 1, 3 

 nearly four times as long as 4, the latter longer than 1 and 2 united. 

 Pronotum with median carina elevated, projecting in front, lateral ones 

 prominent, intervals closely, coarsely punctate, reticulate behind. Elytra 

 elongate-oval, tips broadly rounded, costal margin sinuate at basal third; 

 discoidal area with cells large, its marginal nervures prominent; costal 

 area with one row of large cells at base, two beyond middle. Length, 

 4 — 4.5 mm. 



A neotropical species, described from Central America and 

 recorded in our territory from Illinois and Mississippi. 



458 (674). Teleonemia scrupulosa Stal, 1873, 132. 



Elongate, slender, subparallel. Grayish or reddish-brown thickly 

 clothed with very short grayish scale-like hairs ; elytra usually with 

 irregular dark blotches on discal area and smaller ones near apex, the 

 interval between these pale subhyaline; legs dull yellow, knees and tarsi 

 tinged with fuscous. Antenna? dark brown, densely clothed with short 

 stiff blackish hairs; joints 1 and 2 subequal, 4 fusiform, one-half longer 

 than either, 3 about twice as long as the others united. Beak reaching 

 front edge of metasternum. Pronotal carina? rather low, both they and 

 paranota with one row of cells, the latter reflexed but not appressed 

 against pronotal disk. Elytra of the usual form for the genus, the cells 

 of costal area rather large and hyaline, those of the pubescent discoidal 

 areas very small and shallow. Length, 3.3 — 4 mm. (Fig. 114). 



Houston, Tex., Oct. 17 (Barber). Brownsville, Tex., Aug. 1, 

 on ebony (Cornell Univ. Coll.). A tropical species described 

 from Rio Janeiro, recorded from Key West, Fla., and Texas, 

 and ranging throughout the West Indies, Central America and 

 Mexico. Occurs on mint and mallow. 



459 ( — ). Teleonemia vanduzeei Drake, 1919a, 24. 



Elongate, slender. Pale brownish-yellow with darker brown mark- 

 ings ; pronotum brown ; discoidal area of elytra dark brown or fuscous, 

 faintly pubescent; sutural area with a vague ill-defined preapical trans- 

 verse band; legs brown, knees darker. Antenna? brown, joint 4 some- 

 what darker; joint 1 slightly stouter than and subequal in length to 2; 

 3 slender, nearly three times as long as 4, the latter subequal in length 

 to 1 and 2 united. Beak reaching onto metasternum. Paranota with 

 one row of small but distinct cells. Pronotal carina? well elevated, each 

 with a single row of cells, the median one raised in front and projecting 

 over vertex. Costal and subcostal areas each with one row of rather 

 large cells. Length, 3 — 3.2 mm. 



Crescent City, Fla., Sept. 7 (Cornell Univ. Coll.). Recorded by 

 Van Duzee (1907, 22) from Jamaica as T. scrupulosa Stal. 



