Bruchomorpho jocosa STAL 

 (1862 Berl. Ent. Zeit., vi, p. 310) 



Recorded from S. C., Fla., Kans. and Texas. 



Form and structure like dorsata Fitch. The entire body and the 

 legs rusty-yellow, on the underside of the frons darker, a more or less 

 large black fleck at the apex. 



Length of body 3 mm.; width 1.50 mm. 



Taken by the writer rather abundantly while sweeping 

 coarse grasses in open pine woods during 1921 at the fol- 

 lowing localities in Mississippi: Golden, June 5; Kosciusko, 

 July 14 ; Lyman, July 28 ; Pascagoula, Aug. 5 ; Merrill, Aug. 

 9; and Meridian, Aug. 15. 



Bruchomorpho pallidipes STAL 

 (1862 Berl. Ent. Zeit, vi, p. 309) 



Recorded from Va., S. C., Fla., Kans. and Colo. 



Form and structure like dorsata Fitch. Frons bluntly-triangular, not 

 snout-like produced, more vertically placed, but still obliquely declined, 

 rounded at apex, the carinae distinct. The body is black, shining, 

 a yellowish longitudinal vitta reaching from the apex of the vertex 

 to the tip of the elytra. At times the whole pronotum, the scutellum, 

 and the terminal margin of the elytra rusty-yellow or rusty-brown. 

 Legs rusty-yellow, without markings, the tarsi also rusty-yellow. 

 Otherwise like dorsata. 



Length of body 3 mm., width 1.50 mm. 



A series of six males and two females were taken by 

 the writer while sweeping grass in pine woods during 1921 

 at the following localities in Mississippi: Belmont, June 

 7 ; Okolona, June 26 ; Weir, July 14 ; Pickens, July 16 ; Bax- 

 terville, July 27 ; Biloxi, July 30 ; Gulf port, Aug. 1 ; Hatties- 

 burg, Aug. 10; Laurel, Aug. 12. Two macropterous females 

 were taken at Biloxi, Miss., July 30 and Gulfport, Miss., 

 Aug. 1, 1921. 



Bruchomorpho tristis STAL 

 (1862 Berl. Ent. Zeit, vi, p. 309) 



Recorded from Ont, N. Y., N. J., D. C., N. C., Fla., 

 Wise., Texas and Calif. (Central America). 



Distinguished from all other species by its broad robust body. The 

 sides of the frons are rounded outwards, the surface transversely 

 wrinkled, the median carina below the frontal apex is strongly edge- 



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