518 FAMILY XVIII. — PLOIARIID^E. 



pronotum paler brown, its two obtuse ridges whitish; elytra grayish- 

 brown, the costal margin and nervures in part white, the apical third of 

 costal stigma usually in part reddish; beak and antennae annulate with 

 dark brown and white; front coxae white, the apical fourth and a narrow 

 ring at middle fuscous; front tibiae and tarsi fuscous, each with two 

 or three narrow white rings ; middle and hind legs white, narrowly an- 

 nulate with numerous black rings. Basal joint of antennae of male with 

 numerous erect hairs. Eyes very prominent. Meso- and metanotal spines 

 horizontal, subequal. Length, 5 — 5.5 mm. 



Marion Co., Ind., Sept. 29 ; beaten from branches of dead 

 willow on banks of White River. Dunedin, Fla., Feb. 19 — 

 April 13 ; numerous specimens beaten from bunches of Spanish 

 moss and piles of dead leaves of cabbage palmetto {W. S. B.). 

 Raleigh, N. Car., June (Brimley). Described from Hawaii; also 

 as Ploiariodes calif arnica by Banks (1909, 46) from California. 

 Recorded from Gainesville, Fla.; also from Mississippi, Vir- 

 ginia, Porto Rico and Brazil. A prettily marked little species, 

 the annulations of antennae being more equal in width than in 

 our other forms; the red mark on edge of corium sometimes 

 very faint. 



490 ( — ). Empicoris barberi (McAtee & Malloch), in Barber, 1923b, 7. 



Elongate, slender. General color piceous-brown; head with a whit- 

 ish line extending from base of each antenna back to occiput, there 

 abruptly bent and uniting with a diagonal one from below each eye; 

 dorsal and lateral carina? and hind margin of pronotum white; antennae 

 and legs with numerous narrow black and white annulations, the sub- 

 apical dark one on femora and basal joint of antennae broader; ventrals 

 clothed with fine yellowish pubescence, 2 and 4 each with a small round 

 bare spot on each side of hind margin. Joint 1 of antennae one-third 

 longer than 2; 3 twice the length of 4. Hind margin of pronotum with- 

 out a median tubercle. Meso- and metanotum without spines. Spinules 

 of front femora and tibiae numerous, very short and fine. Length, 3 — 

 3.5 mm. 



Dunedin, Fla., Feb. 25 ; one specimen beaten from a pile of 

 recently killed leaves of cabbage palmetto. Known heretofore 

 only from the unique type, taken in Porto Rico. Easily dis- 

 tinguished by the peculiar white lines on head, white dorsal 

 pronotal carinse and hyaline dots of corium. 



491 (698). Empicoris tuberculatus ,;:: (Banks), 1909, 46. 



Elongate, slender. Head, front lobe of pronotum and under surface 

 fuscous-brown; hind lobe of pronotum paler brown, its sides and hind 

 margins narrowly edged with pale yellow; elytra pale brown, the cross 



83 Treated by McAtee & Malloch as /•:. errabundus (Say). See the notes under 

 that species. 



