598 FAMILY XX. — NABID^E. 



Dunedin and R. P. Park, Fla., Oct. 25— April 12 (W. S. B.) . 

 Terra Ceiga, N. Car., March 29 (Brimley). Frequent about 

 Dunedin on tall dead grasses along the margins of ponds or 

 along the bay front ; also on foliage of button-wood on Hog 

 Island. At R. P. Park it was sifted from weed debris and swept 

 from tall grasses in the everglade marshes. This appears to 

 be the only Nabis occurring in any numbers in Florida, having 

 been recorded from eight stations. It is a cosmopolitan neo- 

 tropical species ranging in this country from North Carolina 

 southwest to Florida and Texas. Uhler (1894a, 205) records 

 it as frequent in Grenada in August "upon open swampy spots 

 on herbage." The long slender, shining, almost immaculate 

 elytra, unspotted legs and relatively long and slender front 

 femora are its principal distinguishing characters. 



572 (825). Nabis propinquus Reuter, 1873, 87. 



Elongate, slender, parallel. Dull straw-yellow, sparsely clothed with 

 a fine whitish pubescence; head, pronotum and scutellum with a median 

 dusky stripe; dorsum of abdomen dusky, paler at sides, with a darker 

 median line bordered each side by one of yellow; under surface dull yel- 

 low with a broad fuscous stripe along each side; antennae and legs pale 

 dull yellow; femora dotted with purplish-brown, the front and middle 

 ones with short brown bars on inner side. Head nearly as long as middle 

 of pronotum. Antenna? slender, joint 1 as long as head, two-thirds the 

 length of 2, 3 and 4 subequal, each three-fourths the length of 2. Beak 

 reaching middle of mesosternum. Brachypterous form with pronotum 

 subconical, its sides straight, feebly converging from base to apex, the 

 latter two-thirds the width of base. Elytra reaching second dorsal, their 

 membrane obsolete and tips obtusely rounded. Front and middle femora 

 slender, subfusiform; hind ones longer, more slender, subcylindrical. 

 Length, 10 — 14 mm. 



Argo and West Pullman, 111., July 24 — Sept. 4 (Gerhard). Not 

 taken, but doubtless to be found in northern Indiana as it is 

 a species of the Transition Life Zone, ranging from Quebec and 

 New England west to Illinois and Wisconsin. Hussey recorded 

 it as moderately common on bulrushes and sedges in the 

 marshes of southern Michigan. It is a very long, narrow bodied 

 species and occurs only on sedges (Carer) and other semi- 

 aquatic herbs. The long-winged form, N. vicarius Reut. 

 (1873, 87) is said to be very rare. The .V. elongatus Hart (1907, 

 262) is a synonym. 



573 (826). Nabis limbatus Dahlbom, 1850, 227. 



Brachypterous form — Elongate, gradually feebly widened from head 

 to fifth dorsal of abdomen. Above dull brownish-yellow, clothed with a 



