SUBFAMILY I. — LYCTOCORIN^E. 627 



hard) . Taken in Indiana from beneath bark of oak ; in Florida 

 by sifting weed debris and beneath bark of dead pine. Not 

 before recorded from Florida. Known in this country hereto- 

 fore only from New York, South Carolina and Texas. Re- 

 corded by Uhler from Grenada. The much darker color, shorter 

 hairs on margins of pronotum and elytra, more basal impres- 

 sion of pronotum and obsoletely punctate clavus easily dis- 

 tinguish it from pallidulus. 



601 ( — ). Lasiochilus gerhardi sp. nov. 



Oval, widest behind middle. Color a uniform pale reddish-brown, 

 strongly shining. Elytra and abdomen both above and beneath clothed 

 with rather long and coarse inclined yellow hairs. Head subconical, about 

 as wide across the eyes as long, its apex obtuse, but slightly narrowed be- 

 hind eyes, the vertex convex; eyes very small, widely separated above and 

 beneath, placed on sides at basal third of head. Beak reaching between 

 middle coxas. Joint 1 of antenna? short, stout, not reaching tip of tylus ; 

 2 subclavate, twice as long, with apex as thick, as 1 ; 3 and 4 more slen- 

 der, subequal, each about one-third longer than 2, both they and apical 

 half of 2 thickly beset with long spreading hairs. Pronotum subquadrate, 

 its apex but little narrower than base, sides deflexed in front of middle, 

 not margined, hind margin truncate; disk with front portion smooth, 

 convex, a fine but distinct transverse line across basal third, this not 

 reaching sides, but bent backward at right angles, thus enclosing a trans- 

 verse depressed area wider than base of scutellum and in front of latter, 

 this area minutely punctate and pilose. Scutellum very finely transverse- 

 ly strigose. Elytra brachypterous, without definite divisions, reaching 

 base of third dorsal, their tips contiguous, broadly rounded; disk mi- 

 nutely alutaceous, rather thickly and very finely punctate, each puncture 

 enclosing a fine yellow hair. Abdomen widest behind the apices of elytra, 

 the last three dorsals narrowed, minutely thickly punctate and pilose. 

 Length, 1.2—1.5 mm. 



Described from ten specimens, taken Dec. 31 — April 4, by 

 sifting weed debris and bases of tufts of grass along the water's 

 edge of the bay front near Dunedin, Fla. I take pleasure in 

 naming this very distinct little species in honor of my friend, 

 W. J. Gerhard, of Chicago, 111., a devoted student of the 

 Heteroptera who has shown me many favors in the prepara- 

 tion of this work. 



III. Xylocoris Dufour, 1831, 423. 



Small oval or oblong-oval subglabrous shining species hav- 

 ing the head about as wide across the eyes as long, immersed 

 in thorax almost to eyes ; beak reaching middle coxae ; prono- 

 tum subtrapezoidal, hind margin feebly sinuate or subtruncate, 



