630 FAMILY XXIV. — ANTHOCORIDjE. 



Hamilton, Marion and Putnam counties, Ind., April 11 — Oct. 

 1 (//'. S\ B.). Staten Island, N. Y., April 12; Jamesburg, N. J., 

 July 2 (Paris) . In Indiana the brachypterous form is frequent 

 locally beneath bark of beech and walnut logs or stumps, but 

 only one example of the long-winged form has been taken. It 

 is an introduced European, palaearctic species, heretofore re- 

 corded in this country only from New England, New York, New 

 Jersey and Michigan, but probably of wide distribution in the 

 northern states. 



605 (849). Xylocoris vicarius (Reuter), 1884, 45. 



Form of cursitans. Black or piceous-black, strongly shining, the 

 elytra in part pale as described in key; antenna? fuscous, their hairs yel- 

 lowish; tibia?, tarsi and apical half of beak brownish-yellow, base of beak 

 and femora piceous. Joints 2 and 4 of antennae subequal in length, 

 longer than the interocular width, 3 one-third shorter than 2. Prono- 

 tum trapezoidal, the base twice the width of apex, its sides subsinuate, 

 hind margin truncate, disk feebly convex, impunctate, the usual transverse 

 impression obsolete. Elytra in long-winged form reaching tip of abdo- 

 men ; in short-winged one only to base of third dorsal, the membrane 

 very short. Femora swollen, the front ones more strongly so. Length, 

 2—2.3 mm. 



Dunedin, Fla., Nov. 23 — March 14. Taken from beneath 

 boards and other cover in barn yards and orange groves, mat- 

 ing Feb. 11; also beaten from bunches of Spanish moss. This 

 is the first definite station record for this country. Reuter's 

 types were from "Bogota and Americse septemtrionalis," and 

 were all macropterous. The small size, strongly shining black 

 color and smooth pronotum, devoid of even a transverse im- 

 pression, readily separate it from its allies. But one of the 13 

 specimens at hand is macropterous. 



IV. Asthenidea Reuter, 1884, 48. 



Oval or oblong-oval shining species having the neck behind 

 eyes stout, cylindrical, subequal in width to interocular area, 

 the head in front of neck as long as the width across the eyes ; 

 ocelli large for the family ; beak reaching onto mesosternum or 

 attaining the middle coxae; antennae slender, pilose, the second 

 joint swollen toward apex; pronotum trapezoidal, with ante- 

 apical transverse impression forming a distinct collar, sides 

 declivent and acutely margined, disk with an evident sub- 

 median transverse impression, the front portion with a smooth 

 calloused area, hind margin widely and feebly sinuate; elytra 



