l68 FLORIDA HEMIPTERA 



pallid ; legs pale rufous, immaculate or nearly so. Antennas stout, sparcely 

 clothed with hairs, basal joint short, but little surpassing the head ; second 

 and fourth equal, the latter fusiform and pallid at tip in some examples ; 

 third distinctly shorter and like the second slightly thickened at tip. 

 Rostrum pale rufous, almost exactly reaching the base of the prosternum ; 

 second joint extending for nearly half its length beyond the base of the head. 

 Elytra in macropterous examples lurid white ; clavus with the scutellar 

 margins slenderly and faintly infuscated ; commissural margins broadly 

 infuscated ; corium tinged with fulvous along the costa ; inner nervure and 

 apical at base heavily blackish ; costal area becoming coriaceous and 

 castaneous or blackish at apex, this castaneous color extending up the apical 

 margin to meet the marking on the inner nervure ; large discal area of the 

 corium immaculate ; membrane marked with a brown cloud near the apex 

 of the corium and a fainter cloud on either side at the middle of the margin ; 

 nervures except the median more or less infuscated. Elytra of the brachyp- 

 terous form reaching to the second tergal segment ; testaceous or brownish 

 with a narrow white membrane. Length of macropterous form 5 mm. 



Described from four macropterous and four brachypterous 

 examples captured at Crescent City, Clearwater and Estero, 

 and one pair taken by Mrs. Slosson at Lake Worth. This 

 species is near /aliens but it is a little larger, the disk of the 

 corium and clavus are immaculate, not veined with fuscous as 

 in f aliens; the veins of the membrane are less heavily infuscated 

 and the rostrum is longer. It is still nearer prezcultns Distant 

 but the color of the antennae and the markings of the elytra 

 sufficiently distinguish it. In f aliens the terminal three joints 

 of the antennas are subequal, the second joint of the rostrum 

 does not nearly attain the base of the head, and the whole 

 rostrum is castaneous or black. In rufipes the oblique hind 

 margins of the fifth ventral segment of the female meet on the 

 median line close to the base of the segment while in fallens 

 they terminate under the margin of the fourth segment some 

 distance either side of the median line. 



73. Ischnodemus badius n. sp. 



Allied to Sallei. Brachypterous form : Long and narrow ; castaneous 

 or at times almost black, darker beneath. Superior surface of the head and 

 pronotum and the legs paler of even testaceous. Connexivum testaceous. 

 Scutellum and sometimes a submarginal vitta on the tergum bordering the 

 connexivum and including a row of black points, fuscous. In a few examples 

 the head and anterior margin of the pronotum are also black. Tylus broader 

 than in f aliens. Antennae shading to black at apex ; first joint stout, 

 exceeding the tylus by one third of its length ; remaining joints of about 

 equal thickness, more slender at apex ; second and fourth subequal ; third 

 distinctly shorter. Rostrum attaining the intermediate coxae ; second joint 



