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south. Enotatus is very close to Slossoni with which it occurred 

 but the characters separating - them seem constant. The front 

 is narrower basally, the expanded divergent apices of the plates 

 in the male genitalia are smaller and narrower, and are dis- 

 tinctly whitish, and the stiles are longer. 



187. Myndus lunatus n. sp. 



Female: Pale straw-yellow or testaceous-yellow varied with white and 

 fuscous. Head rather longer than in most of our species. Vertex long, 

 whitish, its margin strongly carinate, fulvous, slenderly lined with fuscous. 

 Front unusually broad, rapidly widening almost to the straight deeply im- 

 pressed clypeal suture, its thin exanded sides broadly reflexed and rounded 

 to the base of the clypeus; greenish white in color and marked with a narrow 

 transverse fulvous band at base and a broader one at apex, the latter outlined 

 above by a fuscous or black lunate vitta which may be much extended over 

 the fulvous area; clypeus pale green marked with fuscous or black on either 

 side at base. Pronotum narrow, subangularly emarginate behind, marked 

 with an angular black spot behind either eye and a similar spot below the 

 lateral margin. Eyes black superiorly. Ocelli rufous. Scutellum varied 

 with fuscous on either side, the disk pale between the prominent straight 

 carinte. Elytra varied with fuscous, the most conspicuous marks being a 

 large basal area containing a whitish cloud, a vague vitta beyond the middle, 

 and the apex; the claval suture and one or two of the principal longitudinal 

 nervures lined with fuscous. In fully colored examples there is a fuscous or 

 black spot on the middle of the clavus at the junction of the nervures, an- 

 other on the costa opposite this, one on the base of the stigma, a larger one 

 behind a white mark on the tip of the clavus, a spot on the transverse vein- 

 let at base of the second apical areole, and a point anterior to this. Nervures 

 obsoletely punctate but not dotted. Body beneath whitish varied with fus- 

 cous on the sides of the venter; oviduct fuscous or black. Eegs pale, the 

 femora fuscous exteriorly. Length nearly 4 mm. 



Male: A little smaller than the female. Pale straw yellow becoming 

 fulvous on the sides of the scutellum and abdomen. Vertex and face green- 

 ish white, the front showing two transverse fulvous vittse but wanting the 

 fuscous markings found in the female. Elytra without the fuscous markings 

 but showing a white subapical cloud and the black points as described in 

 the female, those on the clavus and costa much reduced or obsolete. 



Described from numerous specimens swept from low 

 huckleberry bushes and accompanying weeds and grasses on 

 the dry pine barrens at Sanford, Sevenoaks, Ft. Myers and 

 Estero. This is a very pretty little species distinguished by the 

 broad greenish front banded with fulvous and marked with a 

 fuscous lunule in the female. In one female the fuscous mark- 

 ings of the elytra form a large blackish cloud on the base of the 

 clavus and an elongated mark on the disk of the corium poste- 

 riorly against the claval suture. 



