SUBFAMILY VII. — DERvEOCORIN^E. 885 



977 (1050). Eustictus venatorius Van Duzee, 1912a, 479. 



Dull brownish-yellow, the upper surface, head, femora and middle 

 and hind tibiae sparsely clothed with long, suberect brownish hairs; ver- 

 tex, apical two-thirds of pronotum, scutellum in part, inner apical angle 

 of corium and tips of embolium and cuneus, fuscous-black or brown ; 

 basal third of pronotum, clavus and apical halves of femora more or less 

 necked with fuscous ; a spot each side of base and tip of scutellum and 

 the greater part of cuneus pale yellow; membrane fuscous, its veins 

 and cells darker; under surface dull yellow, the genital region darker. 

 Joint 1 of antenna? dai'k brown, as long as head; 2 yellow, or brown, 

 thickly dotted with fuscous or yellow, more than twice the length of 1; 

 3 pale yellow, its base with fuscous dots, subequal in length to 1 ; 4 dark 

 brown, two-thirds as long as 3. Eyes of male very large, narrowly sep- 

 arated above. Pronotum rather finely, irregularly and shallowly punc- 

 tate. Length, 6.5 — 8.2 mm. 



Cape Sable, Fla., Feb. 23 ; beaten from foliage along a path- 

 way of a dense hammock. (W.S.B.). Lakeland, Fla., May 6 

 (Dazis) . Recorded also from Key West and Crescent City, 

 Fla. Known elsewhere only from New York. Van Duzee's 

 types, from Hamburg and Gowanda, N. Y., "were beaten from 

 hickory trees over which they were prowling, apparently in 

 search of prey." 



978 (1052). Eustictus mundus (Uhler), 1887b, 71. 



Head, elytra and under surface pale brownish-yellow, in part often 

 heavily tinged with red; eyes, pronotum and scutellum black; embolium 

 pale translucent yellow, its apex red and black; inner basai angles and 

 margins of cuneus and a narrow curved bar across apex of corium 

 piceous; membrane dusky translucent, its veins darker; beak and legs 

 pale yellow, more or less tinged with red ; genital segments darker. 

 Eyes of male very large, not contiguous to pronotum. Antenna? with 

 joints of same relative length as in grossus, 1 — 3 dull red, faintly dotted 

 with fuscous, 4 brown, its tip red. Pronotum thickly, rugosely, rather 

 coarsely and shallowly punctate, its collar and very narrow margins 

 reddish-yellow. Scutellum minutely transversely strigose, the disk with 

 a large shallow median impression. Outer margin of clavus and inner 

 one of corium each with two regular rows of fine punctures, elytra other- 

 wise almost smooth. Length, 5.3 — 6 mm. 



Dunedin and Kissimmee, Fla., March 21 — June 11; swept 

 from flowers of the coast germander, Teucrium littorale Bick., and 

 taken at porch light. Recorded only from Enterprise and Cres- 

 cent City, Fla., and eastern Georgia. 



979 ( — ). Eustictus necopinus Knight, 1923, 481. 



Pronotum brownish-black, disk with collar, narrow margins and a 

 few small scattered spots, paler, sometimes, var. discretus Knight, wholly 



