632 FAMILY XXIV. — ANTHOCORIDjE. 



reaching middle of eyes. Antennae slender, slightly longer than head 

 and pronotum united; joint 1 reaching tip of tylus, 2 as long as head, 

 3 and 4 very slender, each about two-thirds the length of 2. Pronotum 

 trapezoidal, its base broadly and shallowly concave, less than twice as 

 wide as apex; disk with a wide and rather deep median transverse im- 

 pression, its front portion transversely convex, hind one depressed, finely 

 transversely rugose; sides of disk in front of middle somewhat de- 

 clivent, distinctly margined, broadly rounded. Elytra slightly surpass- 

 ing tip of abdomen, clavus with three rows of fine punctures, corium 

 and embolium very finely and sparsely punctate, each puncture bearing 

 a rather long very fine inclined yellow hair. Length, 2.5 — 2.8 mm. 



Royal Palm Park, Fla., March 14 — Dec. 12. A dozen or more 

 specimens taken by sifting decaying vegetation in low damp 

 places and by beating dead leaves of royal palm in a dense ham- 

 mock. Described from Vera Cruz, Mexico; known elsewhere 

 only from Guatemala and Nicaragua; this being the first rec- 

 ord for this country. 



608 ( — ). ASTHENIDEA SEMIPICTA sp. nov. 



Elongate-oblong. Head, except tylus, pronotum, basal half of scu- 

 tellum and under surface piceous-black, strongly shining; apical half of 

 scutellum and cuneus, except inner basal angle, fuscous-black, sub- 

 opaque ; elytra pale clay-yellow or grayish-white, almost glabrous, feebly 

 shining; tylus, beak and legs testaceous, often more or less tinged with 

 fuscous. Joints 1 and 2 of antenna? pale brownish-yellow, 3 and 4 dusky 

 yellow; 1 reaching tip of tylus, 2 three times as long as 1, 3 and 4 sub- 

 equal, each two-thirds the length of 2. Pronotum about twice as wide 

 at base as apex, sides feebly sinuate, very finely margined ; disk with 

 main transverse impression at basal third, the front portion smooth and 

 transversely convex or calloused ; hind portion finely rugose-punctate, 

 basal margin shallowly and broadly concave. Elytra entire, surpassing 

 abdomen by nearly one-half the length of membrane; clavus with three 

 rows of distinct punctures; corium with a single row of similar punc- 

 tures along the inner edge. Length, 2.5 — 2.8 mm. 



Miami, R. P. Park and Ft. Myers, Fla., March 11— April 9. 

 Taken at Ft. Myers by sifting debris from the bed of an ex- 

 tinct pond ; at Miami by beating along the edge of Brickell 

 Hammock, and at the Park by sifting the nest of a wood rat 

 found in the base of a clump of cat-tails and other vegetable 

 debris. The head is much longer than in the type of A. picta 

 (Uhl.), a West Indian species, with which specimens were com- 

 pared by China. Resembles temnostethoides, but legs wholly pale 

 and clavus much more distinctly punctate. 



