SUBFAMILY IX. — ZELINJE. 587 



not taken north of Marion County. Occurs on foliage of trees 

 and shrubs along pathways and borders of woods. Dunedin 

 and LaBelle, Fla., November — April. Hibernates in bunches 

 of dead leaves and beneath rubbish and swept in spring from 

 tall weeds in moist places. Recorded from numerous stations 

 in that State. Its known range extends from Yaphank, N. Y., 

 west to southern Illinois and Colorado and southwest to Florida 

 and Texas. It is a close ally of sanguisuga, the females being 

 easily distinguished by the subequal spines of head and dark 

 fourth and fifth connexivals ; the males are more difficult to 

 separate, but the sides of connexivals are not serrate as in 

 sanguisuga nor the apex of fourth connexival prolonged back- 

 ward as there. 



561 (808). Sinea rileyi Montandon, 1893, 51. 



Elongate, slender, subparallel. Dark chestnut- or fuscous-brown, 

 rather thickly clothed with fine prostrate grayish pubescence; antenna? 

 dull yellow, the first joint blackish at base; ventrals black, each with a 

 large whitish spot on the outer apical angle; femora fuscous-brown, the 

 tibia? paler. Spines on front lobe of head shorter than in our other 

 species. Pronotum with tubercles and grooves of front lobe as in san- 

 guisuga; hind lobe with humeral angles ending in a short slender spine 

 and hind margin with only one or two short spines each side of scutellum. 

 Abdomen with side margins rounded and sometimes feebly undulate in 

 female, subparallel, male. Length, 10 — 11 mm. 



R. P. Park, Cape Sable and Dunedin, Fla., Nov. 22 — April 5. 

 Van Duzee (1909, 177) mentions it as "taken at nearly all 

 stations where I collected in Florida." At Dunedin it occurs on 

 huckleberry and other low shrubs in open pine woods ; also in 

 dense hammocks. Described from California. Ranges from 

 North Carolina south and west to Florida, Utah, Texas and 

 California. The darker color, shorter spines on head, non- 

 annulate antennas and pale apical half of membrane readily dis- 

 tinguish it from the two preceding species. 



Family XX. NABID^] Costa, 1852, 66. 



The Damsel-Bugs. 



Elongate-oval or oblong, rather slender species of medium 

 size having the head stout, shorter than pronotum, its front 

 portion prolonged in front of eyes and moderately declivent; 

 ocelli rather large, approximate ; beak 4-jointed, the first joint 

 very short; antennae 4-, rarely 5-jointed; pronotum subcam- 

 panulate or subcorneal, usually with a distinct collar ; elytra 



