NEOTROPICAL MIRIDAE, LXV — CARVALHO 647 



anterior coxae, segment I very short and thick; pronotum finely 

 punctate with longitudinal crests and a median longitudinal carina, 

 calli reaching the sides of pronotum, posterior margin of disc biconcave; 

 scutellum and mesoscutum hairy, the first convex, with acute apex 

 ending by a characteristic, minutely pubescent, black tubercle; hemi- 

 elytra with claval area internally to claval vein raised and very 

 minutely pilose, this pubescence denser along claval vein, embolium 

 wide and incrassate with a raised, minutely pubescent tubercle at 

 apex; cuneus about as long as wide at base, distinctly curved internally 

 on basal two thirds; membrane very minutely pilose (visible only 

 with good illumination), uniareolate; body beset with very long, fine, 

 erect setae, the eyes distinctly pilose. 



Male: Unknown. 



Holotjrpe: Female, San Pedro de Montes de Oca, Costa Rica, 

 on Vernonia brachiata, C. H. Ballou, Oct. 15, 1936; USNM 61948. 



This species diffei*s from T. maculata Usinger, 1935, in the presence 

 of a tubercle on apex of scutellum and apex of embolium, in color of 

 hemielytra (in maculata there is no ocellate hyaline spot surrounded 

 by black at apex of corium), in the less prominent crests of pronotum, 

 in larger eyes, and in greater separation of eyes from pronotal collar. 

 From T. pilosa Reuter and Poppius, 1912, it is readily separated by 

 color markings and larger size. 



A redescription of Renter and Poppius' T. pilosa is here given 

 and attention is called to the illustrations given for this species and 

 for T. maculata Usinger (Ent. News, vol. 46, p. 271, 1935). In the 

 paper referred to, Usinger describes maculata and points out critical 

 differences between these two species. 



Termatophylidea pilosa Reuter and Poppius 



Figure 123,6,e 



Termatophylidea pilosa Reuter and Poppius, Ofv. Finska Vet.-Soc. Forh., vol. 

 54a, pt. 1, p. 4, 1912.— Usinger, Ent. News, vol. 46, p. 271, 1935. 



Female: Length 3.8 mm., width 1.3 mm. Head length 0.7 mm., 

 width 0.4 mm., vertex 0.17 mm. Antennae segment I length 0.3 mm. ; 

 II, 0.8 mm.; Ill and IV broken. Pronotum length 0.7 mm., width 

 at base 0.9 mm. Rostrum length 1 .2 mm. ; segment I length 0.11 mm. ; 

 II, 0.45 mm.; Ill, 0.28 mm.; IV, 0.40 mm. 



Color: Pale translucent, head and pronotum dirty yellowish; 

 eyes dark brown, sides of head behind each eye with a brown fascia, 

 apical portion in front of clypeal suture and first antennal segment 

 dull orange with traces of red, second antennal segment pale with 

 reddish apex and base; pronotum dirty yellow with a brown to 



