644 FAMILY XXIV. — ANTHOCORID^E. 



tinct collar in front, the embolium at apex as wide as the 

 corium and the inner wings without a hamus. The genus was 

 dropped by Reuter in his "Monograph of Anthocoridae," one 

 of the two Brazilian species on which it was founded being 

 referred by him to Cardiastethus and the other made synony- 

 mous with Asthenidea pallescens Reut. Champion (1900, 317, 

 333) restored the generic name Poronotus for the latter (Xylo- 

 coris const rictus Stal) and pointed out the distinctive generic 

 characters as given in key and above. 



622 ( — ). Poronotus constrictus (Stal), 1860, 44. 



Elongate-oval. Pale brownish-yellow, strongly shining, joints 3 and 

 4 of antennae and the inner half of cuneus alone being tinged with fus- 

 cous; membrane whitish-hyaline. Head slightly longer than the width 

 across eyes; neck stout, subcylindrical. Joint 1 of antennae scarcely 

 reaching tip of tylus, 2 as long as head, 3 and 4 very slender, subequal, 

 together longer than 2. Beak reaching onto mesosternum. Pronotum 

 very short, more than twice as wide at base as apex; side margins nar- 

 row, acute, visible for the full length of disk; front lobe with convex 

 callus very prominent, reaching the full width of disk, smooth and very 

 shining; hind lobe feebly impressed at middle, finely and sparsely punc- 

 tate. Scutellum with a rather deep transverse sulcus, coarsely and finely 

 punctate, more coarsely so toward apex. Elytra surpassing abdomen 

 by one-half the length of membrane; clavus very coarsely and shallowly 

 punctate ; remainder of elytra, except membrane, minutely, almost in- 

 visibly punctate, each puncture bearing a rather long appressed yellow- 

 ish hair. Under surface smooth, strongly shining. Length, 2.5 — 2.7 mm. 



Dunedin, Fla., Dec. 11 — April 4. Frequent beneath cover in 

 dry sandy places near the bay beach ; especially so in or be- 

 neath piles of dead cabbage palmetto leaves, in decaying fungi 

 and beneath freshly cut pine blocks. Described from Brazil; 

 known elsewhere heretofore only from Orizaba, Mexico. This 

 is but one of many neotropical forms of insect life whose 

 northern limits of distribution are found along the shores of 

 southern Florida. It closely resembles Asthenidea pallescens 

 Reut., the latter species having been placed as its synonym 

 by Reuter (1884, 193), but is narrower, more shining, with- 

 out a hamus and with the sculpture of pronotum very different. 



V. Dufouriellus Kirkaldy, 1906, 121. 



Elongate, subdepressed, glabrous species having the head 

 moderately produced in front of eyes, constricted behind them ; 

 beak not surpassing front coxae, its second joint scarcely reach- 

 ing base of head ; joint 1 of antennas almost reaching tip of 



