THE SHORE BUGS. 1005 



aa. Upper surface shining, without appressed pubescence, but with nu- 

 merous long erect dark hairs. 1144. hirta. 



1141 (1316). Pentacora signoreti (Guerin), 1857, 401. 



Elongate-oval. Color above dull yellow and black, the black mark- 

 ings as follows : head between the eyes, middle of front lobe of pronotum, 



a small quadrate spot at middle and a 

 rounded one on each humeral angle of hind 

 lobe, scutellum except two spots near apex, 

 clavus, except a spot behind middle, inner 

 portion of corium and three spots on 

 embolium; under surface in great part, 

 black, the prosternum, hind margins of 



/,., ^UtfSff'-V . \ meso- and metasterna and sides of abdo- 



i sMPfaf $ \ men ( ' u 'l yellow; antennae and legs brown- 



ie * ^^ ish-yellow, the basal joint of former and 



apical half of femora in part blackish; 

 tibiae with black setae. Beak dark brown, 

 reaching hind coxae. Joints 1 and 4 of 

 antennae shortest, subequal, 3 one-half 

 : 4. (After Uhier). longer than either. Pronotum with hind 

 margin deeply concave, the humeral angles wide, prolonged, subdepressed 

 and with a small rounded black callus ; front lobe with black median 

 callus prominent. Scutellum with basal half convex, separated from 

 apical one by a curved transverse impression. Elytra surpassing abdo- 

 men by three-fourths the length of membrane. Length, 6.5 — 8 mm. 

 (Fig. 201). 



Punta Gorda, Fla., Nov. 15 ; taken on a mud flat (Davis). St. 

 Augustine, Fla., January; Corpus Christi, Tex., July 20 (Ger- 

 hard) . Recorded by Barber from numerous stations along 

 both the east and west coasts of Florida. A species of the sea 

 beaches, described from Cuba and ranging from Massachusetts 

 southwestward to Florida, Texas, California and Mexico. Uhler 

 (1877, 432) says : "It lives on the pale sands not remote from 

 the beach, and the darker varieties may be met with running 

 briskly over the gray or blackish sandy mud, neglecting the 

 dry spots, but often swarming on the moist places." 



1142 (1318). Pentacora ligata (Say), 1832, 34; I, 359. 



Elongate-oval. General color above black, thickly clothed with fine 

 grayish pubescence; narrow reflexed margins of pronotum and elytra, two 

 small spots on hind margin of pronotum, four on margins of scutellum, 

 one on apical third of clavus and six or eight on corium and embolium, 

 dull yellow; membrane fuscous-brown, with three or four vague median 

 yellow marks ; under surface black, the hind margins of all the segments 

 more or less pale yellow; antennae and beak brown; legs dull yellow with 

 black stripes. Beak reaching between middle coxae. Joint 4 of antenna? 



