BUFFALO SOCIETY OF NATURAL SCIENCES 191 



191. Bruchomorpha tristis Stal. 



Crescent City, Sevenoaks, St. Petersburg and Estero. I 

 distinguish this species by the short nearly vertical head. These 

 specimens differ from Stal's description in having a pale dorsal 

 line on the vertex and generally on the pronotum and scutellum 

 but as stated above I believe this character to be subject to 

 variation and not of specific value. Melichar mentions a similarly 

 marked example from Texas. The St. Petersburg specimen is 

 macropterous and has the elytra a little longer than the abdomen ; 

 hyaline with the transverse and apical nervures fuscous, those 

 toward the base pale. In some examples the surface about the 

 insertion of the coxae is fulvous or pallid ; occasionally the 

 anterior and intermediate feet are pale brown and the posterior 

 black with pale knees. In others the legs are almost entirely 

 black. I have taken this species in Colorado and at Niagara 

 Falls. 



192. Bruchomorpha jocosa Stal. 



This very distinct species I took at Crescent City, Sanford, 

 Sevenoaks, St. Petersburg, Tampa and Ft. Myers. Here the 

 head is even shorter and more vertical than in tristis. Nor- 

 mally the base of the clypeus is black beneath and there is a 

 broad fuscous ray on the disk of the elytra which is continued 

 as a curved vitta to the tip of the abdomen. Some of my spec- 

 imens are darker while one is entirely rufo- testaceous. Four 

 have the fuscous color deepened to blueblack and agree in every 

 respect with Stal's description. 



193. Naso Robertsoni Fitch. 



One pair of this rare insect was swept from a fine grass in 

 a clearing in the pine forest at Estero. 



194. Aphelonema decorata VanDuzee. 



Taken at Crescent City and St. Petersburg. The bright 

 fulvous and blue-black colors of this species give it a strong 

 superficial resemblance to Bruchomorpha jocosa but its generic 

 characters will at once distinguish it. 



195. Hysteropterum punctiferum Walker. 



Swept from the sparse vegetation of the interminable pine 

 barrens everywhere I collected in Florida. At Crescent City 



