526 FAMILY XVIII. — PLOIARIIDjE. 



Pines and recorded only from there, the District of Columbia 

 and Louisiana. This is our only eastern species representing 

 the genus Ploiariopsis as founded by Champion (1898, 163) and 

 merged with Ploiaria by McAtee & Malloch. The Ploiaria Caro- 

 lina of Banks (1909, 44) nee. H.-S., was based on the female of 

 hirticornis. 



502 (708). Ploiaria Carolina (Herrich-Schaeffer), 1853, 8. 



Elongate, slender. Color above brown; hind portion of head and 

 pronotum with a vague median pale stripe; lateral carina? of mesonotum 

 pale; elytra with nervures and some small vague blotches fuscous; front 

 coxae dull yellow, front femora brown with a pale ring at apical third; 

 antennae and middle and hind legs brown, the tips of femora paler; under 

 surface dull yellow, the side margins and last two ventrals darker. Hind 

 portion of head subglobose, very smooth. Joint 2 of antennae one-fourth 

 shorter than 1, 3 and 4 subequal, each about one-third the length of 2. 

 Pronotum subcylindrical, slightly narrower in front of base, disk with a 

 fine median impressed line. Mesonotum oblong, its sides feebly converg- 

 ing from the base, disk subconvex, with a median impressed groove. 

 Elytra gradually slightly widening from base to the rounded tips. Front 

 tibia and tarsus united, equal in length to femur. Front trochanters 

 with two rather stout bristles of unequal length. Genital plate of male 

 elongate, convex, the claspers slender, tapering, curved, their tips meet- 

 ing (fig. 19). Length, 5 — 6 mm. 



Dunedin, Fla., Dec. 14 — March 12; two taken by sweeping 

 flowers of Composite in open pine woods, a third beneath loose 

 bark of a pine log. Wrightsville, N. Car., April 16 (Davis). 

 Recorded also from Georgia and by Barber from Pablo Beach, 

 Fla. Described from "Carolina." 



503 (— ). Ploiaria floridana (Bergroth), 1922b, 218. 



Brownish-yellow, tinged with fuscous; pro- and mesonota each with 

 a wide median stripe and lateral carinas, yellowish; membrane grayish, 

 reticulate with fuscous; front and middle femora and tibiae fuscous, apical 

 third of femora with a pale ring, the knees of hind pair broadly whitish, 

 genital segment of male fuscous. Head and pronotum of equal length. 

 Antennae glabrous, joint 1 as long as head and pronotum united, 2 one- 

 half as long as 1. Pronotum slightly shorter than mesonotum, without 

 median impressed line. Hind margin of male genital with but one 

 median spine (fig. 20). Length, 6 — 7.5 mm. 



Known only from Florida ; a specimen in the Uhler collection 

 from Crescent City. 



504 ( — ). Ploiaria setulifera McAtee & Malloch, 1925, 55. 

 Elongate, slender. General color dull yellow; pro- and mesonota with 



sides pale brown ; elytra fuscous-hyaline with a few small, widely scat- 



