684 FAMILY XXIX. — MIRID.E. 



Ormond, Fla., April 4 (W.S.B.) ; holotype of var. collar is 

 Knight Ms. Denver, Colo., July 15 (Gerhard). The recorded 

 range extends from Massachusetts west to Michigan and Colo- 

 rado and southwest to Florida and Texas. Although rede- 

 scribed from Massachusetts by Uhler (1878, 399) and recorded 

 by Parshley from both that State and Connecticut, Knight 

 ignores it in his key (1923, 551) . There is no previous definite 

 station record from Florida. The black markings of head and 

 pronotum vary much in size and the scutellum is said to be 

 sometimes reddish at base. In the var. collaris Knight the 

 upper surface of head, except jugaB, is wholly black and the 

 pronotum red with a large black spot on middle of disk of hind 

 lobe. 



661 (910). Platytylellus rubrovittatus (Stal), 1862, 318. 



Color above black; head except tylus and eyes, collar and median 

 stripe of pronotum, scutellum except basal angles, basal joint of beak 

 and under surface except a spot on mesosternum and another on sixth 

 ventral, red or orange-red; legs black, the basal half of hind femora 

 and coxa? in part orange-red. Joints 1 and 2 of antenna? of nearly equal 

 thickness, 2 nearly four times as long as 1, male, three times as long, 

 female, 3 two-thirds as long as 2, nearly twice the length of 4. Beak 

 reaching hind coxa?. Upper surface finely granulate. Length, 5 — 5.3 mm. 



Marshall Co., Ind., Aug. 8. Dunedin, R. P. Park and Moore 

 Haven, Fla., Jan. 10 — April 20. Frequent about Dunedin, 

 hibernating beneath bunches of decaying weeds and other 

 cover, and in spring swept from tall grass and herbage along 

 the margins of ponds. Recorded by Barber from Sanford, 

 Fla. Ranges from Nova Scotia and Massachusetts west to 

 Northern Indiana and Colorado and southwest to Florida, 

 Texas and Mexico. 



662 (905). Platytylellus intercidendus (Distant), 1893, 426. 



Basal lobe of pronotum, elytra, antenna?, tylus and legs black; head, 

 collar, side margins and a short backward projecting spur on pronotum, 

 scutellum except basal angles, and under surface, orange-red; spot on 

 mesosternum and the genital region of abdomen fuscous. Beak reach- 

 ing or slightly passing hind coxa?. Joint 2 of antenna? slightly more 

 slender and nearly three times longer than 1, subequal in length to width 

 of basal margin of pronotum, 4 two-fifths the length of 3. Elytra wider 

 with sides behind middle more curved in female than in male. Length, 

 6.2—6.8 mm. 



Dunedin and Ft. Myers, Fla., Nov. 26 — April 26. Frequent 

 about Dunedin in spring on low huckleberry plants in pine 



