14 Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society. Vol. XIV 
Leptoscelis obscura Dallas, W. S. List of the specimens of 
hemipterous insects in the collection of the British Museum, 
II, 1852, p. 458 [Columbia, Cayenne]. Thorax and elytra nar- 
rowly red margined. 
Anisoscelis anulipes Guerin-Meneville, in Sagra, R. de la, His- 
toria fisica, politica y natural de la Isla de Cuba, Historia 
Natural, VII, 1856, pp. 161-2 [Cuba, Guadeloupe]. Thorax 
and elytra red margined. . 
The writer has seen specimens of variety dispar Fabr. from 
Southern Florida and from San Antonio, Texas. (Nov. 2, 1916, 
J. D. Hood.) 
MERocorIs. 
Following are the names that have been proposed for forms 
of this genus occurring in the United States: 
Lygeus typheus. Fabricius, J. C., Supplementum Entomologiz 
Systematice, 1798, pp. 537-8 [Carolina]. 
Coreus acridioides. Fabricius, J. C., Systema Rhyngotorum, etc., 
1803, p. 200 [Carolina]. An exact and gratuitous synonym of 
the preceding. a 
Merocons rugosus. |) Amyot, ©. j) Bj yet Serville; As) Hlistomes 
Naturelle des Inséctes. Hémipteres, 1843, p. 244 [Carolina]. 
Merocoris distinctus. Dallas, W. S., List of the Hemipterous 
Insects in the Collection of the British Museum, II, 1852, DP. 
Aor [St. Louisil. 
Unless controverted by ene derived from the type speci- 
mens, the three forms having Carolina as the type locality must 
be regarded as identical. Mr. H. G. Barber recognizes* this 
form, under the name typheus as separable from distinctus. 
Specimens of Merocoris from the western United States differ 
principally from those of the east in the shorter terminal antennal 
joint. In the former it is about 3.3 to 4.5 times as long as thick 
while in the later it is from 5.3 to 7.25 times. Intergrades occur 
and for that reason the western form is regarded as a subspecies 
for which the name Merocoris typheus subspecies curtatus new 
subsp. is proposed. 
* Insects of Florida, IJ. Hemiptera. Bul. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 33, pp. 
518-9, August 21, 1914. 
