The present paper was prompted by the discovery of an interesting addition to the veliid fauna of the salt marshes in southernmost peninsular Florida. This proved to be the species originally described as Microvelia turmatis by Drake and Harris (1933) from British Honduras. It was transferred by them later (1936) to Xiphovelia Lundblad, 1933, a genus whose type and only species was collected in Sumatra. Further study of the Florida material discloses that turmalis Drake and Harris is generically distinct from Xiphovelia ensis Lundblad, and it is here made the type of the new genus Husseyella. Husseyella belongs to the subfamily Microveliinae, which is characterized as follows: Ocelli absent. Tarsal formula 1, 2, 2; all claws pre-apical. Apical segment of middle tarsi not deeply cleft, and without plumose hairs arising from the base of such cleft. Hemelytra, when present, with four closed cells, not divided into distinct corium and membrane.