19° FLORIDA HEMIPTERA 



i-88. Myndus pusillus n. sp. 



Allied to radkis Osborn but much smaller with a narrower and im- 

 maculate front. Female: Vertex rather wider than in the allied species, its 

 carinate sides almost parallel. Front moderately broad, distinctly convex in 

 both diameters, strongly carinate. Eyes fuscous. Pronotum very short, 

 the broadly and deepty emarginate hind edge attaining the base of the 

 vertex. Vertex and pronotum pale greenish, the latter with a black mark 

 on either side beneath the eye. Face dull fulvous with whitish carinee. 

 Scutellum fulvous. Tergum more or less embrowned. Beneath pale, tinted 

 with fulvous on the pectoral pieces. Elytra hyaline, immaculate, the nerv- 

 ures obsoletely punctate. 



Male smaller than the female and without the blackish marks behind 

 the eyes, front greenish white like the vertex. Length 3^ to 4 mm. 



Described from one female taken at Crescent City and two 

 males from Sevenoaks This is the smallest and most delicate 

 Cixiid known to me. It is closely related to viridis Ball but is 

 much smaller; the vertex is broader and shorter, scarcely sur- 

 passing the eyes; the front is wider at base and fuller and more 

 convex in both diameters; the elytral nervures are more strong- 

 ly punctate and are obviously infuscated toward the apex; the 

 pygofers of the male genital segment are more produced dors- 

 ally so the apical margin is strongly oblique, and the tergum is 

 distinctly marked with blackish. 



Subfamily Issirue. 



189. Bruchomorpha pallidipes Stal. 



Of this species I took a small male at Crescent City and a 

 large female at Estero. The female has the anterior and inter- 

 mediate legs pale brown and the posterior black with pale knees. 

 In the male the legs are fulvous. 



190. Bruchomorpha suturalis Melichar. 



The species I place under this name I found common 

 throughout Florida. In the form of the head it is intermediate 

 between pallidipes and tristis. In the extent of the pale dorsal 

 vitta these individuals vary as do those of tristis from a mere 

 indication on the vertex to a broad conspicuous vitta to the apex 

 of the scutellum. In none does this pale vitta attain the tip of 

 the elytra as described by Melichar and as found in Colorado 

 material in my collection, but this character seems to be subject 

 to much variation. 



