490 FAMILY XV. — TINGIDID^E. 



460 (673). Teleonemia sacchari (Fabricius), 1794, 77. 



Elongate, narrow, sides subparallel. Dark reddish-brown ; narrow side 

 margins of paranota and elytra and pronotal carina?, alternated with 

 dull yellow and fuscous; nervures of elytra dull yellow, the cells in part 

 fuscous, the membrane with several pale subhyaline ones near apex; 

 buccula? and sides of rostral groove dull yellow; antennae and legs red- 

 dish-brown, the tarsi and fourth antennal often darker. Third antennal 

 nearly three times the length of fourth. Pronotum sparsely pubescent, 

 its carina? low, each with one row of cells. Elytra with costal area 

 narrow, its cells long and very narrow. Other characters as in key. 

 Length, 3.7—3.9 mm. 



Royal Palm Park, Cape Sable and Key West, Fla., Feb. 22— 

 April 7 ; frequent on vegetation along the borders of ham- 

 mocks and tide water lagoons. Recorded also from Lake Worth 

 and Biscayne Bay. A neotropical species, known in this coun- 

 try only from Florida, but ranging south to the West Indies, 

 Mexico and Brazil. 



461 (675). Teleonemia belfragei Stal, 1873, 132. 



Narrowly elongate. Pale dull yellow; pronotal carina? and elytral 

 nervures often flecked with fuscous; discoidal areas and membrane usu- 

 ally with brown blotches; ventral surface of abdomen brown; antenna? 

 and legs pale brownish-yellow, tarsi black, fourth antennal brown or 

 fuscous. Antenna? very slender, the first and second joints subequal, the 

 third three times the length of fourth. Pronotum finely densely pubes- 

 cent, its front margin projecting slightly over occiput, carina? higher 

 than in sacchari, each with a row of cells. Discoidal areas and mem- 

 brane with areola? fewer and larger than in sacchari; costal area with a 

 single row of oblong hyaline cells, the cross nervures in part black or 

 brown. Length, 3.4 — 3.6 mm. 



Istokpoga, Ft. Myers and Dunedin, Fla., Feb. 24 — March 30 

 (IV. S. B.) . Lakeland, Fla., May 6 (Davis) . Taken by sweep- 

 ing the French mulberry, Callicarpa americana L., by beating in 

 dense hammocks and sifting on the sites of extinct wet-weath- 

 er ponds. Recorded from Jacksonville, Crescent City, Gaines- 

 ville, Sanford and Biscayne Bay. Known only from Florida 

 and Texas. 



VI. Melanorhopala Stal, 1873, 130. 



Elongate depressed species having the head armed with five 

 long decurved or appressed spines ; antennae stout, subcontigu- 

 ous at base, joint 1 usually nearly twice the length of 2, 

 3 longer than the others united, enlarged near apex, 4 short, 

 conical or fusiform ; hood wanting, pronotum tricarinate, the 



