200 FLORIDA HEMIPTERA 



222. Stobaera pallida Osborn. 



Taken at Crescent City, Ft. Myers and Estero. This is a 

 large species easily distinguished by its sordid fulvous color. 

 Prof. Osborn's description (Ohio Naturalist, v, p. 375, 1905.) 

 will readily identify it. 



223. Stobaera 4=pustulata n sp. 



Brachypterous form: Pale yellowish testaceous, obscurely varied with, 

 darker, marked with a broken black band which crosses the base of the 

 clypeus and sides of the pleural pieces, and with two black pustules on 

 either side of the fourth tergal segment. Length: male 2^; female 3 mm. 



Vertex broader and more quadrate with the carinse weaker than in 

 tricarinata. Front long ovate, broader than in tricarinata, regularly 

 narrowed at base and apex. Antennae but moderately flattened, almost as 

 in Libiimia. Pronotum short, carinae rather weak, the lateral almost at- 

 taining the hind margin. Elytra reaching the first tergal segment, arcuated 

 at apex. This segment with two polished blunt tubercles on either side 

 placed lengthwise of the segment and near the margin. Pygofers of the 

 male deeply excavated below and showing on either side a longitudinal 

 ridge above the base of the stiles. These stiles slender, sinuated and but 

 little divergent. 



Color pale yellowish testaceous, obscurety varied or maculated with a 

 darker shade on the abdomen and marked with black as follows: a spot on 

 the cheeks below the eyes, a band on the tumid base of the clypeus which is 

 continued along either side as a row of large blotches on the pleural pieces, 

 a dot or broken line on the front of the first antennal joint and a heavier 

 line behind, a spot near the apex of the femora and another on the base of 

 the tibiae, the stiles of the male and the oviduct of the female, and the four 

 polished tubercles on the fourth tergal segment. Elytral nervures dotted 

 with fuscous. Eyes brown. Front with a few dark dots or marks above 

 but not transversely brown at base as in tricarinata. 



Described from one male and nine female examples, all 

 brachypterous, taken at Estero. This species is somewhat 

 anomalous in any genus. It has the frontal characters and gen- 

 eral aspect of Stobcera while in the characters of the antennas 

 and pronotal carinas it is intermediate between that genus and 

 Liburnia. Genus Stobtzra seems to have been redescribed as 

 Goniolcium by Fowler in the Biologia. His G. granulosum is 

 perhaps the same as Stobcera concinna Stal. 



224. Bostaera nasuta Ball. 



Swept from a fine matted grass growing in slight depres- 

 sions in the pine forests at Tampa and Sevenoaks. A single 

 specimen was later taken at Ft. Myers. This is an odd looking 



