THE JUMPING GROUND BUGS. 649 



sheaths of ovipositor toothed. One species occurs in our ter- 

 ritory. 



625 ( — ). Ceratocombus vagans McAtee & Malloch, 1925a, 7. 



Oblong-oval, subconvex; above and beneath minutely and indistinctly 

 pilose. Pale yellowish- to fuscous-brown, shining, elytra often in part or 

 wholly paler than remainder of upper surface; antenna? and legs dull yel- 

 low. Pronotum with subapical transverse impression broadly interrupted 

 at middle, distinct on sides ; disk with a faint median impressed longi- 

 tudinal line, a small fovea each side behind middle and a transverse im- 

 pressed line near hind margin. Scutellum convex, smooth and shining. 

 Elytra and wings with venation as in figs. 1 and 3. Other characters 

 as above given. Length, 1 — 1.7 mm. 



Dunedin and R. P. Park, Fla., Nov. 25— April 9 (W.S.B.). 

 Vienna, Va., Aug. 17 (Barber). Frequent in winter about 

 Dunedin beneath vegetable debris and between roots of tufts 

 of grass along the bay front ; in spring taken by sweeping in 

 low moist grounds. At the Park it was very common in the 

 dense hammock on decaying leaves of royal palm and on the 

 ground beneath their debris. Several were also swept from 

 herbage in the everglades. The Virginia specimens were a 

 nearly uniform pale yellowish-brown in hue, those from Flor- 

 ida much darker, several almost wholly shining black, the 

 elytra often with a faint iridescent bluish bloom. Its known 

 range extends from New York and Maryland southwest to 

 Florida and Panama. The description of C. niger Uhler (1904, 

 361) from New Mexico agrees in all particulars with that of 

 vagans M. & M., but they state that the type of niger is lost and 

 so described the species as new. 



II. SCHIZOPTERA Fieber, 1860, 268. 



Small oval subconvex species having the head broader across 

 the eyes than long, its front strongly deflexed (figs. 6 and 8) ; 

 eyes large, somewhat flattened, coarsely granulated, overlap- 

 ping front angles of pronotum ; pronotum transverse, more 

 than twice as wide at base as long, convex, its sides strongly 

 deflexed, hind margin subtruncate, disk with a subangular 

 transverse impressed line near front margin (fig. 8) ; elytra 

 usually entire and much surpassing abdomen, their venation 

 as in fig. 9. One species occurs in our territory. 



626 ( — ). Schizoptera bispina McAtee & Malloch, 1925a, 24. 



Elongate-oval, thinly clothed with very short yellowish hairs. Fus- 



