Form nearly of Hysteropterum. Normally pea green, but many 

 specimens are of dull straw color. 



Vertex very short, rounded almost from the base to the front with 

 no transverse carina between the two; anterior and posterior mar- 

 gins nearly parallel. Front almost quadrate, the lower angles cut 

 off in line with the sides of the clypeus, the sides below a Jittle 

 expanded and reflexed; base of clypeus strongly and acutely angled, 

 reaching almost to the line of the antennae. Eyes reddish. Pronotum 

 short, broadly rounded before, almost straight behind. Elytra almost 

 circular in outline, but little longer than broad, somewhat swollen 

 towards the base, costa semicircularly rounded, entire surface closely 

 but not prominently reticulated. 



Length of body 3 mm., length to tip of elytra 3% -4% mm. 



Van Duzee records sweeping a good series of this pretty 

 species from a peculiar succulent plant growing along the 

 shore near the line of high tides on Estero Island in Florida. 

 Metcalf and Osborn took this species from beach .grass at 

 about the level of high tide at Wrightsville Beach, No. Car. 

 This species seems to be limited in distribution to the sea- 

 shore. 



Acanalonia servillei SPINOLA 

 (1839 Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., viii, p. 448, pi. 16, fig. 2) 



Recorded from South America, Cuba and Jamaica, and 

 reported from Florida by Uhler and from Pennsylvania by 

 Amyot and Serville. 



One of the largest members of the genus and extremely 

 rare. The following description translated from Melichar. 



Body and elytra bright green, the latter with delicate brown cross 

 streaks between the apical veins on apical margin. Vertex as long as 

 pronotum, rounded to frons, obtusely-angled in front, a strong median 

 carina, which continues on the frons. The frons is broader than long, 

 the sides nearly parallel, widened outwards in a blunt angle before 

 the clypeus. Pronotum broadly rounded in front, straight behind, 

 with a strong median carina and two small depressions. Scutellum 

 oval, strongly arched, with a prominent 'median carina and weak 

 lateral ones, which are slightly bent inwards. Elytra one and a half 

 times as long as broad, the costal margin rounded, the apical margin 

 rounded off proportionately. The n. ulnaris ext. is thrice forked, the 

 veins running parallel with the n. ulnaris int. Elytra with entire 

 surface delicately reticulated with network of veins, the somewhat 

 more prominent longitudinal nerves yellowish green. The costal mar- 

 gin frequently more brightly colored. Wings milk-white. Abdomen 

 and hind legs pale green; the tips of the spines black; the first two 

 pairs of legs frequently lightly colored brownish-yellow. 



Length to tip of elytra 14-15 mm. 



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