SUBFAMILY II. — CAPSIN^. 733 



and beak and tarsal claws fuscous. Pronotum shorter, broader, much 

 less narrowed in front than in rubrinervis, its apex subequal in width to 

 median length; calli distinct, their front halves connected. Beak reach- 

 ing onto first ventral. Length, 6 mm. 



Tybee Island, Ga., July 26 (Van D.). This is the type local- 

 ity and it is recorded only from there and Estero, Fla. 



743 (961). Creontiades filicornis (Walker) , 1873, 96. 



"Female — Piceous, fusiform, finely punctured, tawny beneath. Head 

 triangular. Eyes slightly prominent. Rostrum tawny, extending a little 

 beyond hind coxae. Antennas tawny, filiform, as long as body; first joint 

 much longer than head; second more than twice the length of first; third 

 a little longer than first, fourth much shorter than third. Prothorax 

 with a strongly marked transverse furrow. Legs tawny, slender. Corium 

 tawny; tip with a red spot and with three brown dots. Membrane brown- 

 ish. Length of body 4 lines. St. John's Bluff, East Florida. Presented 

 by E. Doubleday, Esq." 



The above is the original description of the Capsus filicornis of 

 Walker. Distant (1904, 106) placed it in the genus Creontiades, 

 though in color it is apparently widely different from our other 

 species. 



VII. POLYMERUS Hahn I, 1831, 27 (Pceciloscytus Fieb.). 



Oblong or elongate-oval pubescent species having the head 

 short, distinctly wider across the eyes than long, the front sub- 

 vertical; base of tylus viewed from above, distinctly below (in 

 front of) the insertion of antennse; beak usually reaching to or 

 beyond middle coxae; antennae shorter than body, variable as 

 to species, the last two joints much more slender than the oth- 

 ers ; pronotum trapezoidal, about twice as wide at base as long, 

 without median constriction, calli evident but feeble, hind por- 

 tion convex, declivent forward, more or less rugose ; scutellum 

 triangular, equilateral, convex; elytra entire, surpassing ab- 

 domen, male, or reaching only its tip, female, cuneus and mem- 

 brane strongly deflected. About 30 species are known from the 

 United States, 15 of which occur in our territory. They were 

 formerly classed under the generic name Pceciloscytus Fieber. 



KEY TO EASTERN" SPECIES OF POLYMERUS. 



a. Beak reaching upon or surpassing hind coxae. 

 b. Larger, length usually 4.3 or more mm. 

 c. Cuneus wholly or in great part red, rarely paler; beak reaching 

 onto first ventral ; general color greenish-yellow varied with 

 blackish; apical half of femora annulate with brown. 



744. BASALTS. 



