668 family xxix. — mirid;e. 



beak dull yellow, the tarsi darker and femora vaguely spotted with small 

 brown dots; basal joint of antenna? testaceous, darker at base. Struc- 

 tural characters as above given. Length, 6.2 — 7 mm. 



Frequent throughout southern Indiana, less so in the north- 

 ern counties ; May 12 — Sept. 25. Dunedin and Ft. Myers, Fla., 

 March 4 — 28 (//'. 5". B.). Recorded from six other stations in 

 Florida. Occurs in Indiana mainly on grasses growing in dry 

 soils along roadsides, railway embankments and other waste 

 places; sometimes on sedges and grasses along swales in up- 

 land woods ; also frequent on the low herbage of the sand flats 

 in the dune region. Ranges from Quebec and New England 

 west to Iowa and Kansas and southwest to Florida and Texas. 

 The velvety-black spots on the brown background of pronotum 

 are much more prominent than in meilleurii. 



639 (877). Collaria explicata Uhler, 1887, 230. 



Shorter and more slender than oculata. Pale brownish yellow, more 

 or less tinged with fuscous; cheeks and tylus blackish-piceous ; joint 1 

 of antennae reddish-brown, the extreme base and some dots on under 

 side blackish, 2 — 4 fuscous; basal lobe of head, pronotum, clavus and 

 inner half or more of corium usually tinged with dark fuscous; collar 

 and median carina of pronotum, median line and base of scutellum, 

 embolium and sternum, pale straw-yellow; ventrals tinged with fuscous. 

 Basal lobe of head and scutellum finely transversely wrinkled ; of prono- 

 tum finely, closely, unevenly punctate. Length, 5.5 — 6 mm. 



Dunedin and Ft. Myers, Fla., Feb. 21— April 25 (W.S.B.). 

 Jamaica, W. I. (Gerhard). Described from Cuba and San Do- 

 mingo. Recorded from Biscayne Bay, Fla. The Dunedin speci- 

 mens were swept from prickly sida, Sida spinosa L., a semi- 

 tropical introduced weed. 



II. Stenodema Laporte, 1832, 40. 



Elongate, slender, greenish or straw-yellow species having 

 the head porrect, rather long and pointed, inserted in thorax 

 to eyes, the vertex with a short median groove ; joint 1 of 

 antenna? stout, slightly curved, thickly clothed with bristly 

 hairs, 2 — 4 gradually more slender, 3 about one-half the length 

 of 2, slightly longer than 4 ; beak reaching middle coxae, its 

 basal joint scarcely longer than head ; pronotum trapezoidal, 

 without transverse constriction, feebly narrowed from base 

 to apex, its lateral carina? distinct, entire, disk finely and 

 closely punctate and with a faint smooth median longitudinal 

 carina, this continued to apex of scutellum ; elytra entire, sur- 



