2o8 FLORIDA HEMIPTERA 



255. Idioderma virescens n. sp. 



Clear bright green with the head and legs more or less 

 rufous. Length 4^ to 5 mm. 



Head about twice wider than long; margin of the cheeks sinuated, a 

 little rounding to the base of the broad clypeus the apex of the latter tumid 

 and moderately incurved. Pronotum almost attaining the tip of the ter- 

 minal areole; its median line impunctate but not at all carinate, its base 

 feebly arcuated. Color of the pronotum clear bright green; head and legs 

 usually bright rufous, sometimes pale, the face at times exhibiting traces of 

 a transverse fuscous vitta below the ocelli and another across the apex of 

 the clypeus; tibiae and tarsi becoming greenish apically; abdomen pale yel- 

 lowish green, brighter in places especially on the tergum; oviduct of the 

 female rufous; stiles of the male slender, recurved and black at apex. 



Described from numerous examples of both sexes. It was 

 taken occasionally at all places where I worked but most abun- 

 dantly at Estero. The brilliant green and red of this little 

 insect makes it a really beautiful object when it is resting in 

 the bright sunshine. I at first imagined this to be the Acutalis 

 ino7'iiata of Ball but closer inspection showed the clavus and 

 part of the corium to be covered by the pronotum thus exclu- 

 ding it from that subfamily. 



256. Idioderma varia n. sp. 



Bright rufotestaceous varied with 

 lighter and darker shades; face with 

 the apex and a transverse band below 

 the ocelli fuscous. Length 4% mm. 



Face as in virescens but with the disk IDIODERMA VARIA 



of the clypeus a little more elevated; dorsal 

 line of the pronotum feebly sinuated at the 



middle; its apex reaching about to the base of the terminal areole. Color 

 some shade of rufotestaceous varied on the pronotum as follows: — a large 

 subtriangular pale spot above each post-humeral sinus, which obscurely 

 unite in a vague anterior dorsal cloud; a broad transverse paler vitta behind 

 the middle and another before the apex both of which are broadest at the 

 sides and become indefinite dorsally; the margins of these light areas are 

 eroded and intensified by a darker, almost fuscous, shade. Viewed from 

 above these darker shades form a roughly rhomboidal figure, a transverse 

 vitta and a dusky tip, and above each eye is a darker spot or cloud. Face 

 pale with a transverse vitta below the ocelli and another on the apex. Be- 

 neath and the abdomen pale yellowish green with the posterior femora, an 

 annulus on the anterior and intermediate femora, a broken lateral vitta on 

 the pleural pieces and the apex of the stiles of the male black. Elytra hya- 

 line; the apical nervure a little embrowned. 



