plates in the male genitalia are smaller and narrower, and 

 are distinctly whitish, and the styles are longer. 



Soiled yellowish-testaceous in color, almost uniform above or a 

 little darker toward the costal base of the elytra and on the sides 

 of the scutellum. Abdomen and beneath quite strongly tinged with 

 fulvous or at times almost rufous; the tergum more or less blackish 

 at the base. Eyes ovate. Hind margins of the meso- and meta- 

 pleura at times black. Costa narrowly whitish. 



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



This species was described by Van Duzee from numerous 

 specimens swept from grass on the prairies at Haw Creek, 

 Fla., in untold thousands. Metcalf and Osborn give an 

 interesting account of finding this species on a rather coarse 

 grass in a tidal flat at Southport, N. C., and state that 

 "the species has certainly been able to accommodate itself to 

 the tide flat habitat and there is little doubt that it is able 

 to undergo periods of submergence lasting a number of 

 hours." 



The writer has swept this species together with slossoni 

 in large numbers from the marsh reed (Juncus sp.) on an 

 island in the Pascagoula River at Pascagoula, Miss., July 5, 

 1920 and on Cat Island, seven miles off the Mississippi 

 coast, Sept. 7, 1920, and also at Ocean Springs, Miss., 

 Aug. 3, 1921. Prof. J. S. Hine took a large series at Bay 

 Ridge, Md., July 1, 1899. All of these records would in- 

 dicate a maritime distribution. 



Myndus pusillus VAN DUZEE 

 (1909 Bui. Buf. Soc. Nat. Sci., ix, p. 190) 



Recorded only from Florida. 



Allied to radicis Osborn but much smaller with a nar- 

 rower and immaculate frons. The smallest and most del- 

 icate North American Cixiid. 



The original description is quoted here. 



"Female: Vertex rather wider than in the allied species, its cari- 

 nate sides almost parallel. Front moderately broad, distinctly convex 

 in both diameters, strongly carinate. Eyes fuscous. Pronotum very 

 short, the broadly and deeply emarginate hind edge attaining the base 

 of the vertex. Vertex and pronotum pale greenish, the latter with a 

 black mark on either side beneath the eye. Face dull fulvous with 

 whitish carinae. Scutellum fulvous. Tergum more or less embrowned. 



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