174 FLORIDA HEMIPTERA 



Three examples were taken at Crescent City and Sanford. 

 I have redescribed this species as Stal's description is altogether 

 insufficient and even with the aid of Champion's figure in the 

 Biologia I could not finally satisfy myself as to its identity. Mr. 

 Heidemann has however very kindly compared my specimens 

 with undoubted examples of Belfragii in the National Museum 

 and pronounces them identical. Mrs. Slosson reports this 

 species from Biscayne Bay where she has taken so many rare 

 and interesting Hemiptera. 



95. Atheas exiguus Heidemann. 



I took a good series of this insect at Sevenoaks from a low 

 plant with small leaves having much the aspect of wild indigo. 

 It is described by Mr. Heidemann in a paper in this number of 

 the Bulletin. 



Family Phymatidse. 



96. Phymata erosa Querini L. & S. 



This West Indian variety of erosa has thus far been record- 

 ed from Cuba only. I took it in abundance at Ft. Myers and 

 Estero and found it in less numbers as far north as Crescent 

 City. Mr. Gustav Beyer of New York has kindly sent me 

 specimens of this same variety taken by him at Key Largo, Fla. 

 It may be distinguished from fasciata by the strongly expanded 

 pronotal margin having the humeral portion behind the deep 

 median notch acutely bidentate. The abdomen is also more 

 broadly and acutely expanded at the fourth segment. 



97. Phymata vicina Handlirsch. 



At Sanford I took a single example that I feel quite certain 

 belongs to this species and from Prof. John Barlow I have re- 

 ceived another taken by him at Kingston, R. I. Mr. Heide- 

 mann has examined my Florida specimen and agrees with me 

 in this determination. These specimens agree in every respect 

 with the description given by Handlirsch except in color. Both 

 are males and are black varied with pale yellow or whitish on 

 the abdomen posteriorly and basally at either side, and there are 

 two white marginal spots on either side of the pronotum ante- 



