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480 (688). Phymata noualhieri Handlirsch, 1897, 153. 



Elongate, oboval, widest much behind the middle. Dull reddish- 

 gray, pronotum sometimes in great part black; the usual dark cross-bar 

 behind middle of elytra vague or wanting; under surface reddish-brown, 

 the sides of abdomen mottled with blackish; antenna? dull yellow; beak 

 and legs reddish brown, the middle and hind femora and tibiae broadly 

 annulate with blackish. Head one-half longer than wide with a sub- 

 conical tubercle each side of disk. Fourth antennal about as long as 2 

 and 3 united, male, distinctly shorter, female. Pronotum with disk un- 

 even, its margins unarmed, but thickened and feebly rounded both in 

 front and behind the median notch. Connexivals 1 — 3 with apical angles 

 ending in a short blunt tubercle, 4 and 5 higher and wider, their margins 

 bluntly rounded. Membrane brown, with a network of numerous large 

 cells. Length, 8 — 9 mm. 



Marion, N. Car., July 28 (Brimley). Described from Pennsyl- 

 vania, Georgia, Mexico and Guatemala. Recorded from Bis- 

 cayne Bay, Fla. 



481 (689d). Phymata guerini Lethierry & Severin, 1896, 28. 



Form of P. fasciata. Color much as there, the brown of upper sur- 

 face more pronounced, in the males often more nearly black as in wolffii 

 the seventh dorsal with a dark bar. Head with the front pair of tubercles 

 very small; fourth joint of antenna? about three-fourths as long as 2 and 

 3 united, male, distinctly shorter, female. Pronotum with sinus of side 

 margins narrower and deeper, the margins of hind lobe more expanded, 

 more strongly upcurved, each with an acute tooth at hind angle and 

 another near middle. Abdomen with ends of fourth and fifth dorsals 

 strongly expanded, their tips acute, that of fourth surpassing the fifth; 

 hind angle of each connexival distinctly prolonged backward. Length, 

 8—10 mm. 



Common throughout eastern and southern Florida, Nov. 16 

 — April 10. Taken at most of my collecting stations and re- 

 corded from numerous others between Jacksonville and Key 

 West. Frequent about Dunedin throughout the winter on 

 flowers of thistle and other plants, and on tall grasses along 

 margins of ponds. Originally described from Cuba as P. erosa 

 by Guerin. Known only from the West Indies and Florida. 



482 (686). Phymata albopicta Handlirsch, 1897, 151. 



Elongate-oval. Head and pronotum pale brown, the latter with two 

 pale spots on reflexed margins of front half; scutellum clay-yellow; elytra 

 dark brown, basal half of corium in part paler; connexivals clay-yellow, 

 the fourth and basal half of fifth black; legs yellow, basal half of 

 femora and tarsi darker. Joint 4 of antenna? dark brown, paler at base, 

 as long as 2 and 3 united, male, much shorter, female. Head with a 

 rather long subvertical bifurcate process. Pronotum with sides strongly 

 reflexed, their margins broadly curved throughout and with a slender 



