Vertex very short, shorter at the middle than on each side, pale 

 red, green at median line. Frons about as wide as long, rather flat, 

 with the median carina prominent on disc and the lateral margins 

 slightly elevated; anterior margin almost straight, posterior one rather 

 deeply and angularly emarginate; pale red with three green stripes 

 which are united at both ends, spread out particularly at the apex. 

 Clypeus short, pale. Antennae rather short, reddish. Pronotum pale 

 red adorned with a green median stripe and on each side with a 

 green band along the fore-border, almost truncate-conical in front 

 and very deeply emarginate behind. Scutellum very long, somewhat 

 convex, pale red, with three longitudinal green stripes, the median 

 one slightly elevated. Elytra very pale green with a luteous tinge 

 along the commissural margin and apex, hind borders almost trun- 

 cate at apex, the clavus strongly granulate; longitudinal veins very 

 numerous, green. Legs pale yellowish-green. 



Length of body 7 mm.; length to tip of elytra 11 mm. 



Redescribed from a single specimen from Gulfport, Fla., 

 and a specimen collected by George G. Ainslie at Orlando, 

 Florida. There are a number of specimens in the U. S. 

 National Museum collection taken at several localities in 

 Florida, and in south Georgia on the saw palmetto, Serrenoa 

 serrulata, as follows: Marlow, Ga., July 11, 1917, W. D. 

 Pierce; Jekyl Island, Ga., June 22, 1923, W. L. McAtee. 



Ormenis venusta MELICHAR 

 (1902 Ann. K. K. Natl. Hofms. Wien xvii, p. 84) 



Recorded from No. Car., Ga., and Texas. The writer 

 has taken it in So. Car., Florida and Mississippi. It is 

 much less abundant than either 0. pruinosa or septentrion- 

 alis. 



Pale green, more or less covered with a whitish powder in fresh 

 specimens. Front longer than wide, distinctly narrowed at the clypeus, 

 lateral margins sharp; a distinct median carina extending downward 

 nearly to the clypeus. Antennae orange-yellow, bristle black. Eyes 

 dark brown. Pronotum very narrow with a faint lighter colored 

 median carina. Scutellum arched, with three faint longitudinal car- 

 inae. Elytra about twice as long as wide, broadened behind, symmetri- 

 cally rounded off at tip; a subapical cross-vein, running parallel with 

 the apical margin, runs into the costal vein. Elytra are pale green 

 in color, the costal margin brighter, nearly white, the apical and 

 sutural margins slightly colored with yellow. Wings milk-white. 

 Legs greenish-yellow, the tarsi orange-yellow, tips of the femoral 

 spines dark. 



Length of body 6 mm.; length to tip of elytra 6-9 mm. 

 Taken breeding on pecan, sweetgum, and oak. Several 



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