SUBFAMILY II. — CAPSIN^E. 737 



R. P. Park, Canal Point and Ft. Myers, Fla., March 4 — April 

 8 ; swept in some numbers from low herbage growing in moist 

 mucky places. Recorded also from Biscayne Bay, Fla., and 

 Texas. Described from Mexico and Central America. Uhler 

 (1894a, 193) says of it in Grenada: "It is a common species 

 in the Antilles and on the borders of the adjoining continent. 

 Many specimens were collected at light and others swept from 

 herbage in August." The P. clandestinus Blatch. (1926, 164) 

 is a synonym. 



748 ( — ). Polymerus delongi Knight, 1925, 252. 



Pale reddish-brown clothed with fine yellow appressed hairs inter- 

 mixed with paler suberect ones; vertex yellowish, tylus fuscous; prono- 

 tum tinged with reddish, front angles each with a round blackish spot; 

 lower margins of propleura pale; mesoscutum fuscous, narrowly exposed; 

 apex of scutellum pale; elytra yellowish tinged with reddish, inner half 

 of clavus pale fuscous, cuneus yellow, the inner half reddish; membrane 

 fuscous, the veins and margins near apex of cuneus pale; coxae and front 

 and middle femora yellowish tinged with reddish; hind femora dark red, 

 paler at base and apex; tibiae and tarsi yellowish; ventrals reddish-yel- 

 low, genital region darker. Joint 1 of antennae yellowish, as long as 

 width of vertex; 2 yellow at base, fuscous toward apex, four times as 

 long as 1 ; 3 dusky yellow, two-thirds the length of 2. Length, 3.2 mm. 



Known only from Paradise Key, R. P. Park, Fla. 



749 ( — ). Polymerus proximus Knight, 1923, 601. 



Color a nearly uniform black, clothed above with yellowish and 

 black pubescence intermixed; scutellum narrowly pale each side of apex; 

 membrane and veins dark fuscous; legs and ventrals wholly black, the 

 latter with pale pubescence. Antennas black, brownish apically, joint 1 

 as long as or slightly longer than width of vertex, 2 as long as width of 

 pronotum at base, 3 two-fifths as long as 2. Beak barely reaching hind 

 margins of middle coxae. Length, 5.3 mm. 



Recorded from Pennsylvania, Minnesota and Missouri. 



750 (988). Polymerus unifasciatus (Fabricius), 1794, 178. 



Male — Elongate, subparallel. Black with yellow markings, clothed 

 with fine depressed, golden yellow hairs and a few blackish suberect ones; 

 head yellow, vertex and tip of tylus shining brown; pronotum black, its 

 collar, narrow side margins, median dash and edge of hind margin, yel- 

 low; apex of scutellum, basal third and apex of corium, apical half or 

 more of embolium, anal ridge, apical third or more of front and middle 

 femora and all the tibiae, yellowish ; hind femora either fuscous-black 

 with basal half and two subapical bands dull yellow or wholly pale yel- 

 low; membrane fuscous, the veins and central area paler. Antennas 

 with joint 1 and basal third of 2 yellowish, remainder brown to blackish; 

 1 as long as width of vertex, 2 two and a half times as long as 1. Prono- 



