Fowler states that B. signoreti may be known by its 

 having the apex of the elytra invaded with hyaline. He 

 places westwoodi as a variety under tinealis, in which the 

 dark and light color is more broken up behind. 



In a large series of specimens collected at Gainesville, 

 Fla., in June and July, 1918, by C. J. Drake, while sweeping 

 ferns, there are seven specimens of a pale color with nearly 

 all of the markings lacking. This may be designated as a 

 new color variety of tinealis and be called var. floridana. 



Bothriocera tinealis BURMEISTER 

 (1835 Handb. Ent., ii, p. 156). 



Recorded from North Carolina and Florida. 



Somewhat transparent, testaceous yellow, with the abdomen fusco- 

 testaceous. Pronotum very short, yellowish. Scutellum large, rufo- 

 testaceous to fuscous-testaceous. Elytra much widened behind, more 

 or less smoky or fuscous with five or six irregular, hyaline, pellucid 

 spots or areas, the apex hyaline. Wings smoke colored with two 

 discolored spots. Legs yellowish. 



Fowler states that "The last male abdominal segment appears to 

 be bisinuate, more or less produced in the middle, and the styles are 

 rather large, but the characters are more pronounced in some speci- 

 mens than in others." 



Length of body 3 mm.; length to tip of elytra 4.5 5 mm.; width 

 1 mm. 



No specimens of typical tinealis were taken by the writer 

 in Mississippi but the specimens collected belong to the 

 variety westwoodi in which the dark and light color is 

 more broken up behind. 



Bothriocera bicornis Fabr. 

 (1803 Systema Rhyngotorum, p. 101, Issus) 



Recorded from Md., N. J., Fla., No. Car. and Texas. 



A distinct species with regular and constant markings. 

 Very much like the preceding species but having the hind 

 margin of the elytra always rather broadly black and 

 opaque. The outline of the head, from a lateral view, is less 

 indented than in tinealis. 



Male pygofer small, long and slender, the ventral margin rather 

 deeply and broadly cut out, with a small, short median tooth; genital 



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