310 FAMILY IX. — ARADID^. 



238 (383). Aradus funestus Bergroth, 1913, 4. 



Elongate-oblong. Head, pronotum and scutellum dark brown to 

 black; elytra grayish- or fuscous-brown; connexivals fuscous, their hind 

 margins broadly pale; membrane dark fuscous, the veins in part paler; 

 antennas, legs and beak dax-k fuscous- to reddish-brown ; ventrals reddish- 

 brown; sterna and genital plate blackish. Head longer than wide, tylus 

 rather broad, its sides parallel; vertex with two deep oblong impressions; 

 antenniferous spines stout, subacute, parallel. Antennae subequal in 

 length to length of head and pronotum united, joint 1 very short, 2 slen- 

 der, as long as width of head across eyes, 3 and 4 slightly stouter, 4 two- 

 thirds the length of 3. Pronotum as in fig. 43d, sides of basal half 

 of disk convex, side margins narrowly reflexed. Scutellum as in key, 

 longer than middle of pronotum, its apex acute. Elytra, male, reaching 

 or slightly passing tip of abdomen, female reaching apex of dorsal 

 genital segment. Connexivum, male narrowly or not at all exposed; 

 female, broadly so. Male with fifth ventral about two-thirds as long 

 as sixth; genital very large, its basal half strongly convex. Length, 

 5.7 — 6.3 mm. Female with hind margin of dorsal genital feebly and 

 broadly curved. Length, 7 — 8 mm. (PI. II, fig. 43). 



Moscow, Idaho (Osborn). Ellensburg, Wash. (U.S.Nat. 

 Mus.) . A species of northern distribution, ranging from Que- 

 bec and Ontario west to Alaska and the Pacific States. Known 

 also from Arizona and Nevada. Formerly recorded as A. 

 iuberculifera Kirby. 



239 (386). Aradus lugubris Fallen, 1807, 34. 



Oblong-oval. Fuscous-brown to black; apical third or more of third 

 antennal and apical angles or hind margins of connexivals dull white; 

 membrane whitish-hyaline maculate with brown; ventral surface dull 

 brown, the incisures of connexivals pale. Head as long as broad; tylus 

 stout, cylindrical; impressions of vertex broad, shallow, united behind; 

 antennae rather stout, shorter than head and pronotum together, second 

 joint two and a half times longer than third, the latter one-half longer 

 than fourth; beak reaching middle of mesosternum. Pronotum strongly 

 narrowed in front, sides not flattened, moderately reflexed, feebly sinuate 

 behind front angles, their edges evenly granulate; disk with all six 

 carina? distinct, only the middle pair entire. Scutellum elongate-tri- 

 angular, sides strongly elevated, feebly sinuate near middle, apex acute, 

 disk with rounded median elevation. Corium long, reaching base of 

 fifth segment, without basal expansion. Male with fifth ventral slightly 

 longer than sixth, genital segment large, moderately convex, elytra as 

 broad as abdomen, reaching its tip in both sexes; female with genital 

 lobes rather long, their hind margin rounded, abdomen narrowly ova 1 , 

 wider than elytra, its margins entire. Length, 4.8 — 6.4 mm. (PI. Ill, 

 fig. 44). 



Georgetown, Colo., July 27; Ormsby Co., Nev., July (Ger- 

 hard). A species of wide distribution in the northern parts of 



