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I took this specimen under a sign on an oak tree in the "hammock" 

 just across the river from Miami. One other specimen was noticed, 

 but escaped by springing from the tree. Great difficulty was experi- 

 enced in capturing the specimen without rubbing off its silver scales. 

 (H.) 



Liphoplus krugii Saussnre. 



This species was originally described from Cuba, and has never since 

 been recorded outside of that island. Seven specimens, one male, six 

 females, taken at Key West, January 19, 1904, appear to be referable 

 to this form. 



These specimens were taken from Ilex cassine by beating, in company 

 with Plectopiera poeyi and Cyrtoxipha delicatula. The specimens were 

 all secured with little difficulty. (H.) 



Liphoplus zebra n. sp. (PI. I, fig. li). 



Type : d^ ; Miami, Dade county, Florida. February 6, 1904. (Mor- 

 gan Hebard.) [Hebard collection.] 



Distinguished from L. krugii by the apparent tegmina, the smaller 

 size and peculiar coloration. 



Size very small; form depressed; surface partially, and probably 

 wholly in the perfect unabradcd insect, covered with minute scales of 

 a silvery-white color. Head depressed, the front with a distinct 

 longitudinal median incision, narrow but distinct; eyes reniform 

 in outline, subvertical; antennae considerably exceeding the body 

 in length. Pronotum scutellate, equal to half the length of the 

 body, moderately arched, the lateral portions deflected toward the 

 median line; cephalic portion considerably narrower than the caudal 

 portion, the margin truncate ; caudal margin very distinctly rotundate ; 

 lateral margins straight. Tegmina visible only as a projecting fringe 

 around the caudal portion of the pronotum, the structure apparently 

 being a fan-like set of radiating veins, margined apically l)y a narrow 

 deflected subcoriaceous area. Abdomen short, thickly covered with 

 scales. Limbs heavily scaled; cephalic and median pair very short; 

 caudal femora strongly inflated, supplied with a number of long hairs, 

 tibiae shorter than the femora and narrowed somewhat proximad, meta- 

 tarsi serrato-dentate dorsad. 



General colors vandyke brown and silvery- white, the tibiae and tarsi 

 alternately ringed with these shades; caudal femora silvery-white 

 obscvu'ely mottled with the darker color; antennae wood brown, be- 

 coming darker apically and narrowly and rather sparsely ringed with 

 a deeper shade : head probably uniform silvery-white when unrubbed ; 

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