962 FAMILY XXIX. — MIRID^E. 



fleeted, its fracture deep; joints 2 and 3 of hind tarsi subequal, 

 1 shorter. Two species are known from North America, one 

 occurring in Florida. 



1100 ( — ). Excentricus mexicanus Van Duzee, 1923b, 163. 



Oval, widest behind middle. Head, pronotum and scutellum fuscous- 

 brown, shining, elytra slightly paler; cuneus brown, its tip and basal 

 lunule yellowish; membrane fuscous, veins yellowish, a pale hyaline spot 

 on apical half and another on inner margin of cell; femora brown, tibiae 

 dull yellow, spines very slender, pale brown, third tarsal and claws 

 brownish; under surface blackish-brown, shining. Joints 1 and 2 of 

 antennae brown, strongly swollen; 1 subclavate, three-fifths as long as 

 width of vertex; 2 cylindrical, twice as long as 1 ; 3 and 4 much more 

 slender, 3 yellowish, two-thirds as long as 2, 4 dusky, one-half the length 

 of 3. Upper surface thinly clothed with suberect dusky hairs and ap- 

 pressed deciduous whitish ones. Length, 2.5 mm. 



Dunedin, Fla., April 7 ; swept from flowers of farkleberry, 

 Batodrendon arboreum (Marsh.). Recorded heretofore only from 

 Lower California. 



XV. Rhinacloa Reuter, 1876, 88. 



Head transverse, its front vertical, but slightly produced in 

 front of antennae; eyes large, coarsely granulated, in male oc- 

 cupying the whole of sides of head ; beak not passing middle 

 coxae; pronotum short, base truncate, much wider than apex, 

 sides straight, disk feebly declivent forwards; elytra entire, 

 much surpassing abdomen ; cuneus short, its fracture deep. 

 One species occurs in Florida, another in the southwestern 

 states. 



1101 ( — ). Rhinacloa subpallicornis Knight, 1926a, 225. 



Oblong-oval. Head, pronotum and scutellum fuscous-brown, both 

 they and elytra thickly clothed with deciduous silvery scale-like hairs, 

 intermixed with dark suberect ones; elytra brownish-yellow, subtrans- 

 lucent, inner half of corium often fuscous-brown; embolium dull yellow, 

 its apical third and disk of cuneus usually red; membrane fuscous-brown, 

 in fresh specimens clothed with silvery scales, veins reddish; femora 

 brown, more or less tinged with fuscous, their tips paler; tibiae yellowish 

 with spines and spots at their base black; under surface fuscous-brown, 

 clothed with silvery hairs. Joint 1 of antennae dark brown, one-half as 

 long as width of vertex, male, two-fifths as long, female; 2 cylindrical, 

 male, subclavate, female, dull yellow, apical third blackish, four and a 

 half times as long as 1, male, one-fourth shorter, female; 3 and 4 dusky 

 yellow, 3 slender, cylindrical, three-fifths as long as 2, 4 fusiform, one- 

 half the length of 3. Length, 2—2.5 mm. 



