frons. Frons broad, uniform brown, median carina distinct through- 

 out the clypeus. Eyes large, black, together with the vertex nearly 

 as broad as the pronotum. Pronotum very short, angulate behind. 

 Scutellum piceous, strongly tricarinate. Elytra short and rather 

 broad, black, a light yellow, illy-defined "saddle" occupying nearly all 

 of the claval area back of the tip of the scutellum; the costal margins 

 with narrow white stripes extending back beyond apex of the clavus. 



Male pygofers with a semicircular excavation bearing a minute 

 knobbed median process; genital styles long, touching in the middle, 

 then obliquely divergent; anal tube with an acute median ventral 

 process. 



Length to tip of elytra 4 mm.; width 1.25 mm. 



Fig. 19 Myndus slossoni Ball, enlarged. (Original). 



Described by Ball from a single pair from Biscayne 

 Bay, Fla. Van Duzee found this species in great abundance 

 on the prairies at Haw Creek near Crescent City, and more 

 rarely at other localities in Florida. 



The writer took it abundantly while sweeping marsh 

 reed (Juncus sp.) on an island at Pascagoula, Miss., July 

 5, 1920, on Ship Island, Sept. 6, 1920, and on Cat Island, 

 Sept. 7, 1920. A number were taken by sweeping coarse 

 grasses in low pine flatwoods at Baxterville, Miss., July 27, 

 1921, and also in sweeping coarse grass on floor of typical 

 black-jack oak woods near Hattiesburg, Miss., Aug. 10, 

 1921. The last two localities are inland many miles from 

 the coast. 



Myndus enotatus VAN DUZEE 

 (1909 Bui. Buf. Soc. Nat. ScL, ix, p. 188) 



Recorded from Md., N. C., Ga. and Fla. 



A species that is very close to slossoni but lacking the 

 "saddle" and darken color of the lajtter. The frons is 

 narrower basally, the expanded divergent apices of the 



77 



