732 FAMILY XXIX. — MIRID^E. 



surpassing hind coxae; pronotum trapezoidal, its width at base 

 about twice that of apex, sides rounded, basal portion convex, 

 finely rugose ; scutellum subtectiform, minutely transversely 

 rugose ; elytra entire, surpassing abdomen ; hind femora reach- 

 ing tip of abdomen ; tibiae with long and prominent setae. Five 

 species are recorded by Van Duzee (1917) from North Amer- 

 ica, three from our territory. 



KEY TO EASTERN SPECIES OF CREONTIADES. 



a. Color greenish- or straw-yellow, more or less tinged with reddish; 

 apex of corium without brown dots. 

 b. Front of vertex subdepressed; calli scarcely evident; upper sur- 

 face and legs more or less tinged with reddish. 



741. RUBRINERVIS. 



bb. Front of vertex rather strongly convex; calli distant, rather promi- 

 nent; upper surface and legs not tinged with reddish. 



742. DEBILIS. 

 aa. Color in great part piceous; apex of corium with three brown dots. 



743. FILICORNIS. 



741 (960). Creontiades rubrinervis (Stal), 1862, 321. 



Elongate, slender, subparallel. Greenish-yellow fading to straw- 

 yellow, usually more or less tinged with rosaceous; pronotum with sub- 

 basal margin blackish, the edge behind it whitish; scutellum of female 

 often in great part fuscous ; elytra with the inner marginal veins of cla- 

 vus and commissure and the veins of membrane rosaceous; sometimes the 

 entire elytra, including cuneus, strongly tinged with the same hue; mem- 

 brane pale fuscous-hyaline, veins reddish; antennae greenish-yellow, 

 joints 1 and 2 often reddish, the apical third of joints 2 and 3 darker; 

 legs straw-yellow tinged with reddish, the tibia? of males and some- 

 times of females in great part green; tarsi in part and tarsal claws 

 fuscous. Joint 1 of antennae stout, cylindrical, finely and sparsely setose, 

 as long as pronotum, 2 about twice the length of 1, 3 one-fifth shorter 

 than. 2, more than twice the length of 4. Width of apex of pronotum 

 about two-thirds the median length of disk. Length, 6.5 — 8 mm. 



Sanford, Sarasota and Dunedin, Fla., Nov. 17 — April 4. Oc- 

 curs throughout the greater part of that State but not taken 

 by me or recorded from the extreme southern portion. About 

 Dunedin it is common in late autumn and spring, both on Hog 

 Island and the mainland, on low huckleberry and other shrubs 

 and grasses in the open pine woods and along the margins and 

 pathways of hammocks. Described from Mexico and recorded 

 in this country only from Florida and California. 



742 (964). Creontiades debilis Van Duzee, 1915, 111. 



Smaller and more slender than rubrinervis. Color a nearly uniform 

 pale straw-yellow; tibiae translucent green; extreme tips of scutellum 



