508 FAMILY XVII. — PHYMATID^E. 



tooth on front angles and two on basal third, the interval between the 

 teeth finely serrate; basal half of disk with two carinae, these visibly 

 divergent behind. Abdomen abruptly expanded behind the middle, the 

 apex of fourth connexival subacute, much prolonged beyond that of 

 fifth. Length, 6.8—7.4 mm. 



Vera Paz, Guatemala (British Mus. Coll.). Described from 

 Georgia. Known also from Mexico. 



483 (690). Phymata acutangula (Guerin), 1857, 408. 



Elongate-oval, widest behind middle of abdomen. Dull yellow; head, 

 pronotum in great part, scutellum and a cross-bar behind middle of 

 elytra dark brown or blackish; two spots on sides of 

 front half of pronotum and connexivals in front of and 

 behind the transverse black bar, white, the white con- 

 ^y) Sfcfll fvl* nexivals with small black spots ; corium a dirty gray- 

 ish-white; membrane whitish-hyaline; antennae, tibiae, 

 tarsi and last three ventrals yellowish-white. Head 

 twice as long as broad, the forks of frontal process 

 more or less divergent. Fourth antennal of male dis- 

 tinctly longer than 2 and 3 united; of female much 

 shorter. Pronotuum strongly narrowed from humeral 

 angles to apex, the side margins sinuate with median 

 notch very small or obsolete; hind lobe with sides 

 dilated and reflexed, their margins subtruncate and 

 Pig l24~Female x G Dear i n g two or three short obtuse teeth. Abdomen 

 (After Champion i. with fourth and fifth connexivals abruptly expanded, 

 the fourth with margin oblique, its apical angle subacute, slightly pro- 

 longed backward and distinctly projecting beyond the fifth. Hind 

 margin of last dorsal of male squarely truncate. Length, 5 — 7 mm. 

 (Fig. 124). 



Dunedin, Fla., Dec. 16 — April 10. Two specimens taken by 

 sweeping or beating in moist places, a third beneath a board on 

 margin of pond. A tropical American species ranging south to 

 Argentina and known heretofore in this country only from 

 Texas. 



484 (685). Phymata vicina Handlirsch, 1897, 150. 



Elongate-oval, widest behind the middle. Head, pronotum in great 

 part, scutellum, a broad bar across the middle of abdomen and some 

 spots on connexivals blackish; two submarginal spots on front lobe of 

 pronotum, elytra, except membrane, and connexivals in front of and 

 behind the black bar, grayish-white; antenna?, tibia?, tarsi, fifth and sixth 

 ventrals and genital plate, dull yellow; femora black, the knees pale. 

 Head with forks of frontal process divergent. Pronotum broader, less 

 narrowed in front, the sides more rounded than in acutangula, its nearest 

 ally; side margins sinuate with median sinus distinct, but small and 

 teeth of hind lobes much shorter; disk of hind lobe more convex, more 

 coarsely and densely punctate, its median carina more prominent. Abdo- 



