992 FAMILY XXXII. — VELIID^E. 



Dunedin and R. P. Park, Fla., Nov. 18— April 23 (IV. S. B.). 

 Found in numbers around Dunedin in small pools and ditches 

 and among the water-weeds along the margins of ponds and 

 lakes ; one was also sifted from grass-roots some distance from 

 water. At the Park a half dozen were taken from decaying 

 weeds and other debris in a slough of the everglades. These 

 are the first records for the State. Ann Arbor, Mich., July 30 — 

 Aug. 5 (Hussey). Described from Ohio. The known range 

 extends from New England west to Michigan and southwest to 

 Florida and Mississippi. The white markings of the elytra of 

 the macropterous form are very similar to those of albonotata 

 Champ. 



1128 ( — ). Microvelia austrina Bueno, 1924, 191. 



Wingless form— Elongate-oblong, sides parallel or nearly so. Color 

 a nearly uniform dark brown, clotbed with very fine appressed grayish 

 hairs; front margin of pronotum reddish-brown; antennae fuscous-brown, 

 the second joint sometimes paler; legs brownish-yellow, tinged with fus- 

 cous, the front femora wholly yellow; abdomen without spots of silvery 

 pubescence. Head strongly convex, its median impressed line distinct. 

 Antennae relatively stout, joints 2 and 3 subequal in length, 1 slightly 

 shortest, 3 most slender, 4 fusiform, slightly longer than 3, but little more 

 than half as long as width of interocular area. Pronotum subquadrate, 

 about one-third wider than long, front margin truncate, hind one very 

 slightly rounded ; disk with reddish front margin smooth, remainder dis- 

 tinctly punctate and with an entire median carina. Mesonotum con- 

 cealed; metanotal triangles very small. Hind tibiae straight in both 

 sexes. Abdomen with sides subparallel, the connexiva wide, subvertical, 

 male; distinctly narrowed behind with connexiva strongly reflexed 

 against the dorsum, female; last three dorsals with a fine median im- 

 pressed line. Length, 1.5 — 1.8 mm. 



Raleigh, N. Car., April 30 — May 22 (Brimley). Bueno's types 

 were from Raleigh and it is not known elsewhere. The small 

 size, parallel body, uniform brown color, short subequal joints 

 of antennae and strongly reflexed connexiva of female, readily 

 distinguish this from all our other species. The M. parallela 

 Blatch. (1925,48) is a synonym. 



1129 (1304). Microvelia albonotata Champion, 1898, 129. 



Winged form — Elongate, slender, sides subparallel. Head and pro- 

 notum dark brown, the former with two short, vague reddish-brown 

 stripes, also a line of white bloom along inner margin of each eye; a 

 transverse spot on front margin of pronotum, and its side margins be- 

 neath, beak, connexivum, coxae, femora in great part, and genital plate, 

 dull yellow; elytra brown, clavus and corium each with an oblique white 

 stripe, the latter also with a large oval white spot; membrane with three 



