Beneath pale, tinted with fulvous on the pectoral pieces. Elytra 

 hyaline, immaculate, the nervures obsoletely punctate. 



Male smaller than the female and without the blackish marks 

 behind the eyes, front greenish white like the vertex. Length %Vz 

 to 4 mm." 



Described from one female taken at Crescent City and 

 two males from Sevenoaks, Fla. It is closely related to 

 viridis Ball but is much smaller ; the vertex is broader, and 

 shorter, scarcely surpassing the eyes; the front is wider at 

 base and fuller and more convex in both diameters; the 

 elytral nervures are more strongly punctate and are ob- 

 viously infuscated toward the apex; the pygofers of the 

 male genital segment are more produced dorsally so the 

 apical margin is strongly oblique, and the tergum is dis- 

 tinctly marked with blackish." 



The writer took a single male while sweeping Juncus 

 and sedges on Cat Island, seven miles off the Mississippi 

 coast. from Gulf port, Miss., Sept. 7, 1920; two females from 

 Biloxi, Miss., Aug. 1, 1921 ; a female from Poplarville, Miss., 

 July 28, 1921, by sweeping grass in cut over pine lands; a 

 female from Enterprise, Miss., Aug. 13, 1921 ; and another 

 by sweeping coarse grasses in woods near Hattiesburg, 

 Miss., Aug. 10, 1921, 



Myndus pictifrons STAL 

 (1862 Berl. Ent. Zeit, vi, p. 307) 



Recorded from N. Y., N. J., D. C., N. C., and Ohio. 



Most readily distinguished from its closest allied species, 

 sordidipennis, by the brown vitta at the inner angle of the 

 elytra. Frons banded. 



General color yellowish-white. Head, including the eyes, narrower 

 than the pronotum; vertex sordid, broad, the lateral margins carinate 

 and usually fuscous, slightly produced before the eyes, and scarcely 

 angled with the frons. Frons very broad below the eyes, the median 

 carina distinct and continuing through the clypeus; whitish with a 

 broad basal band and a smaller apical one, black. Eyes large, dark 

 brown. Antennae very short, pale. Pronotum and scutellum more 

 or less infuscated. Elytra transparent, the veins, and the small stig- 

 matal spots of costa black-fuscous; a fuscous apical vitta that curves 

 along the commissure and inwards just below the apex of the clavus. 

 Legs testaceous. 



Male pygofer with a semicircular excavation bearing a minute 



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