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FLORIDA HEMIPTERA 



those about the outer apical areole heavy and fuscous. Valve 

 wanting; plates long and acutely-triangular; pygofers much 

 exceeding the plates, broadly and deeply forked at apex where 

 they are clothed with long heavy bristles. 



Neoslossonia n. genus. 



Allied to Hecalus but differing in having the vertex obtusely triangular 

 and furrowed, the pronotum subcarinate and the clavus with two nervures 

 which are united in one posteriorly. Head as wide as the pronotum, ob- 

 tusely triangular, as long as the width at base, sloping moderately forward 

 in conformity with the slope of the pronotum; vertex almost flat, depressed 

 about the edges; median line with a broad furrow, either side of which is an 

 elevated ridge. Front convex as far as the apex of the head, the margins 

 depressed and nearly foliaceous either side before the eyes; broad, convex 

 and truncated at apex; clypeus abruptly much narrower. Pronotum trans- 

 verse, a little wider posteriorly; anterior margin scarcely arcuated, hind 

 margin broadly feebly arcuated across the base of the scutellum; median 

 line carinate, either side with a slightly oblique obscure ridge continuing 

 those on the vertex; sides bicarinate behind the eyes. Elytra opake, 

 rounded at apex, the nervures distinct showing five long apical areoles on 

 the corium; the two nervures of the clavus united at about its middle, the 

 resulting nervure joining the commissural a little beyond. Head and pro- 

 notum coarsely punctured. Type of genus N. atra V. D. 



It affords me pleasure to dedicate this genus to Mrs. A nnie 

 Trumbull Slosson its first discoverer and one to whom I am 

 indebted for many courtesies extended during the study of this 

 Florida material. 



296. Neoslossonia atra n. sp. 



Deep black all over with the tarsi testaceous and 

 the tibial spines ferruginous. Vertex and pronotum 

 coarsely punctured, those along the margin becoming 

 dragged giving the appearance of rugae. Convex sides 

 of the front showing curved arcs by oblique light, the 

 depressed margins more deeply punctured. Clypeus 

 longer than wide, sides rectilinear. Elytra reaching 

 nearly to the tip of the abdomen; venation distinct. 

 Valve of the male broad and short, triangular; plates 

 long-triangular, slender and acute at apex, reaching a 

 little beyond the middle of the pygofers; the latter 

 exerted, subcylindrical, armed with four or five short 

 distant bristles on either side. Length 5^ mm. 



Described from two male examples. One of these I took 

 from a "palmetto hummock" at Sanford, the other was taken 

 by Mrs. Slosson at Jacksonville. This remarkable insect has 



NEOSLOSSONIA 

 ATRA 



