SUBFAMILY I. — LYG^IN^. 



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KEY TO EASTERN SPECIES OF ORTHOLOMUS. 



«. Head and pronotum a nearly uniform brown; median carina of scu- 

 tellum wide, obtuse, prominent throughout; beak reaching onto 

 second ventral ; length, 5 — 6 mm. 284. scolopax. 



aa. Head and pronotum dull yellow maculate with brown; median carina 

 of scutellum narrow, much less prominent; beak reaching between 

 hind coxae; smaller, length, 4 — 5 mm. 285. jamaicensis. 



284 (462). Ortholomus scolopax (Say), 1832, 15; I, 330. 



Elongate-oblong. Above dull grayish-brown, thinly clothed with 

 short grayish pubescence; front edge, narrow transverse impression and 

 apical angles of pronotum and basal half of 

 each connexival, blackish; apex of corium red- 

 dish; membrane whitish-hyaline, both it and 

 corium with vague fuscous markings ; median 

 carina of scutellum and apical angles of each 

 connexival dull yellow; beneath dull reddish- 

 brown, thickly clothed with prostrate grayish 

 pubescence; sides of abdomen, pleura and 

 femora with fuscous spots ; coxa?, trochanters 

 and middle of tibia? dull yellow; antenna? red- 

 ^V dish-brown, the first and fourth joints in part 

 darker. Structural characters as under generic 

 heading. Length, 5 — 6 mm. 



Frequent in the southern half of Indi- 

 ana ; Lake County only in the north ; 

 June 30 — Oct. 6. Taken by sweeping 

 Pig. 73, x 7. (Original), weeds, flowers of goldenrod and other 

 Compositse growing on dry upland soil. 

 Sherborn, Mass., Sept. 20 (Frost). Baker's 0. uhleri, described 

 from N. W. Wisconsin (1906, 139), is separated by him only 

 by having the "transverse line of pronotum reduced to a shin- 

 ing black fovea midway on either side of pronotum ; length of 

 head equal to width across eyes." These characters appear in 

 numerous females of scolopax from Indiana and I regard his 

 name as only a synonym. 



Stal (1874, 122) evidently did not know Say's species, as he 

 placed it doubtfully without remarks in Belonochilus. Barber 

 (Ms.) states that in his opinion Stal's Nysius (Ortholomus) longi- 

 ceps is a synonym of Say's scolopax. Stal's types of lougiccps were 

 from several of our northern states, and the description is brief 

 and mainly a comparison with his N. spurcus from Taiti Island. 

 There is nothing in the description to preclude its being Say's 

 species, and as but the one form is known from the north I have 

 adopted Barber's conclusions and combined the two. The known 



