SUBFAMILY VIII. — DICYPHI1SLE. 913 



Dunedin and Moore Haven, Fla., March 7 — 27; swept from 

 herbage in low mucky grounds. Recorded from Ft. Myers, Fla. 

 A neotropical species of wide distribution. 



IV. Macrolophus Fieber, 1858, 326. 



Elongate, subparallel species having the head porrect, its 

 front declivent, eyes small, neck behind them short and wide ; 

 antennae half the length of body, joint 1 stoutest, 3 and 4 more 

 slender than 2 ; pronotum trapezoidal, about one and three- 

 fourth times wider at base than long, disk with a narrow 

 median longitudinal groove, also a vague transverse one be- 

 hind calli, hind margin broadly, rather deeply concave ; elytra 

 entire, surpassing abdomen, clavus almost flat, cuneus hori- 

 zontal ; joint 2 of hind tarsi longer than 3. Two species occur 

 in our territory. 



KEY TO EASTERN SPECIES OF MACROLOPHUS. 



a. Joint 1 of antennae wholly black; joint 2, two and one-third times the 



length of 1. 1015. separatus. 



aa. Joint 1 of antenna? yellow with apex and base fuscous; joint 2, three 



times as long as 1. 1016. tenuicornis. 



1015 (1116). Macrolophus separatus (Uhler), 1894a, 194. 



Dull straw-yellow; apex of scutellum fuscous; elytra dirty white or 

 pale yellow, thickly flecked with brownish dots or punctures, each bearing 

 a short inclined blackish hair; embolium with a rounded spot near apex 

 and extreme tip dark brown; cuneus pale yellow, its tip brown; mem- 

 brane dusky, marbled with pale, veins brown; legs and under surface 

 straw-yellow, rather thickly pubescent, tarsi and ventrals tinged with 

 fuscous. Joint 1 of antenna? black, pale at extreme base, one-half longer 

 than width of vertex; 2 dusky yellow, blackish at tip, two and one-third 

 times longer than 1; 3 one-third longer than 2; 4 fuscous, one-fourth the 

 length of 3. Beak reaching hind coxae. Other characters as under generic 

 heading. Length, 4 — 4.5 mm. 



Hessville, Lake Co., Ind., Sept. 22 (Gerhard). Ranges from 

 Ontario and New England west to the Pacific and southwest to 

 Florida, Texas, New Mexico and the West Indies, some of the 

 records doubtless belonging to the next species. Recorded from 

 Ft. Myers, Fla. 



1016 ( — ). Macrolophus tenuicornis sp. nov. 



More slender than separatus. Color much the same, head with a 

 narrow black stripe behind each eye; front femora more yellow, their 

 basal halves pale whitish translucent. Antennae much longer and dis- 

 tinctly more slender, joint 1 yellow, the extreme tip and base blackish, 

 more than twice as long as width of vertex, nearly two-thirds longer than 

 in separatus; 2 yellow, the tip black, much more slender and distinctly 

 longer than in separatus; 3 and 4 yellow, 3 as long as 2, 4 one-fourth the 



