branch veins that are mostly parallel; the veins pale green, some of 

 them fuscous. Wings whitish, tinged with pale brown towards the 

 tips and along the hind border; veins stramineous or straw-colored. 

 Legs pale yellowish-green. 



Length of body 7.25 mm.; length to tip of elytra 11 mm. 



Recorded localities all in Florida : "Taken occasionally 

 at all places where I collected in Fla." (Van Duzee) ; Bis- 

 cayne Bay, Jacksonville, (Mrs. Slosson) ; Marco, Ft. Myers, 

 Clearwater, Lakeland, and Punta Gorda (Am. Mus. Nat. 

 Hist.) ; Gainesville, April 9, 1918, by the writer while 

 beating trees and bushes. A specimen was taken by Geo. 

 G. Ainslie at Lakeland, Fla., April 12, 1918. 





Pig. 27 Adult Flatoides punctatus Walker (original). 



Flatoides maculosus METCALF 

 (1923, Jr. of Elisha Mitchell Soc., 38, p. 191) 



"This species may be recognized by its short, broad ver- 

 tex, pale ochraceous buff or olive ochraceous buff color, 

 heavily spotted with fuscous and by the very distinct geni- 

 talia. 



Head broad; vertex nearly twice broader than long angularly 

 produced anteriorly; frons somewhat elongate, conically produced 

 basally; clypeus about one and one-half times as long as broad; 



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