954 FAMILY XXIX. — MIRIDyE. 



brane pale fuscous hyaline; legs wholly a pale straw-yellow, tibial spines, 

 third tarsal and claws blackish. Joints 1 and 2 of antennae pale yellow, 

 1 two-fifths as long as width of vertex; 2 feebly thickened toward apex, 

 four and a half times as long as 1 ; 3 and 4 fuscous, 3 three-fifths the 

 length of 2, 4 one-half as long as 3. Tylus broad, feebly convex, the 

 suture at base scarcely evident. Scutellum with a distinct median con- 

 cavity. Length, 3 mm. 



Dunedin, Fla., Feb. 8 ; one female taken at desk light. Allied 

 to miniatus but very distinct by the characters given above 

 and in key. 



1084 ( — ) . Lepidopsallus pusillus Knight, 1926a, 227. 



Oblong, sides subparallel, male, more broadly oval, female. Dull 

 greenish-yellow, sparsely clothed with suberect dusky hairs and scattered 

 appressed deciduous silvery scale-like ones; scutellum, disk of basal half 

 of pronotum, and often the greater part of corium, tinged with greenish- 

 fuscous ; line along claval suture often fuscous-brown ; membrane dusky- 

 hyaline, the veins slightly darker; legs dull yellow without black spots, 

 spines of tibiae blackish, the dark spots at base very small ; ventrals 

 greenish-yellow, darker on sides. Joint 1 of antennae dull yellow, only 

 about one-third as long as width of vertex; 2 as in key, visibly thickened 

 apically, female, cylindrical, with apical third only fuscous, male, four 

 times as long as 1 ; 3 and 4 dusky-yellow, more slender, 3 one-third longer 

 than 4. Beak reaching between middle coxae. Pronotum and elytra finely 

 scabrous. Length, 1.8 — 2.4 mm. 



Dunedin, Gainesville, Canal Point, Miami and R. P. Park, 

 Fla., Oct. 25 — April 15. Common in autumn and spring on tall 

 dead grasses and other herbage along the margins of ponds and 

 sloughs; in winter hibernating in bunches of dead vines and 

 Spanish moss. 



1085 ( — ). Lepidopsallus claricornis Knight, 1923, 471. 



Oblong-oval. Brownish-black, the upper surface only with scale-like 

 pubescence; membrane and veins pale brownish; legs brownish-black, tips 

 of femora and coxae slightly paler; tibiae pale yellowish, their spines with- 

 out black spot at base, tarsi pale, tips fuscous ; under surface dark brown- 

 ish, clothed only with fine brownish hairs. Joint 1 of antennae pale yel- 

 lowish, three-fifths as long as width of vertex, 2 uniformly yellowish, 

 dusky-pubescent, four times as long as 1. Beak reaching base of ovi- 

 positor. Length, 3.1 mm. 



Described from a single female taken May 29 by Davis at 

 Lakehurst, N. Jer. 



XL Psallus Fieber, 1858, 321. 



Oblong or elongate, subparallel, shining pubescent species 

 having the head wider across eyes than apex of pronotum, its 



