SUBFAMILY I. — LYG^IN^. 



343 



gg. Upper surface with short prostrate grayish pubescence; membrane 

 with a whitish discal spot; length, less than 5 mm. (Subgenus 

 Lygasospilus Barber). 283. tripunctatus. 



275 (434). Lyceus turcicus Fabricius, 1803, 218. 



Elongate-oblong. Black and red, almost impunctate; head with red 

 as in key; pronotum with front lobe wholly black, hind one with a broad 

 red band across middle, this widest on margins and at middle; corium 

 red with an irregular black spot, reaching costal margin behind middle; 

 clavus with basal half or more, except inner margin, red; scutellum and 

 membrane wholly black; sterna, antennae and legs black; abdomen red 

 with two rows of black spots along middle and another at margin each 

 side; sixth ventral and genital plates black. Beak reaching hind coxae. 

 Pronotum with side margins rounded, feebly converging from base to 

 apex; disk almost flat, punctate across middle and near front margin; 

 basal lobe with median carina subobsolete. Scutellum with transverse 

 elevation in front of middle, this joined to an obtuse median carina. 

 Length, 10 — 11.5 mm. 



Putnam and Crawford counties, Ind., scarce; May 12 — July 

 11. Taken while crawling along pathways on the slopes of 

 wooded hills, beneath bark of poplar logs and on flowers of the 

 staghorn sumac, Rhus hirta L. It probably occurs throughout 

 Indiana, but is much less common than kalmii. The two eastern 

 species, turcicus and kalmii, have been so 

 confused in the past that it is difficult to 

 give the range of either. The types of 

 turcicus were from New York and it is 

 known definitely from that State and 

 Massachusetts, west to Missouri and 

 Colorado, but is not recorded south of 

 Washington, D. C, where Banks found 

 it on Jersey-tea (Ceanothus). The record 

 of its life history by Townsend (1887) 

 as well as several of the other citations 

 by Van Duzee (1917, 151), probably re- 

 fer to kalmii. 



276 (437). Lyceus kalmii Stal, 1874, 107. 



Elongate-oblong. Color very similar to 

 that of turcicus, the red spot on head oblong 

 and confined to middle of vertex; clavus wholly 

 black; membrane with a narrow white margin 

 and often with two small spots on middle, a 

 larger one on base and a short spur on side 

 slightly in front of apex of corium, white ; upper surface except mem- 

 brane quite evenly but not densely covered with a very short grayish 



Fig. 72, X 5. (After Drake 

 Tech. Publ. No. 16, N. Y. St 

 Coll. For.). 



