384 



FAMILY XL — LYG,£ID;E. 



of mesosternum ; pronotum subtrapezoidal, densely punctate, 

 feebly constricted near middle ; scutellum equilateral, punctate, 

 not carinate ; elytra punctate, surpassing the abdomen, costal 

 margin expanded, hyaline, feebly recurved ; membrane with 

 four nearly straight veins, its apex broadly rounded ; prester- 

 num not sulcate, meso- and metasterna distinctly sulcate ; front 

 femora moderately swollen, armed beneath with a single small 

 subapical tooth. Seven species are known from North Amer- 

 ica, but only one occurs in the eastern states. 



325 (519). Crophius disconotus (Say), 1832, 14; I, 330. 



Elongate-oval, slightly widened behind. Head, pronotum and scu- 

 tellum dark fuscous-brown, the hind lobe of pronotum 

 often paler; elytra whitish-hyaline, the punctures 

 and nerves fuscous; membrane whitish-hyaline, but 

 reflecting the black dorsum ; first and second an- 

 tennals reddish-brown, third and fourth blackish- 

 fuscous; abdomen dark brown, shining, broad hind 

 margin of metapleura white ; femora reddish-brown ; 

 tibiae and tarsi pale yellow, darker at base and tips. 

 Antennae with first joint short, stout, slightly pass- 

 ing tip of tylus; second slender, longer than third, 

 fourth longest, fusiform. Other characters as above. 

 Length, 3—3.7 mm. (Fig. 82). 



Fig. 82, X 9. 

 (After Van Duzee). 



Roselle Park, N. J., April 25 (Barber). Not 

 taken, but should occur in Indiana. Ranges 

 from Quebec and New England west to Missouri and southwest 

 to Alabama. Recorded also by Uhler from Utah and Califor- 

 nia. Van Duzee once found it in numbers in September on 

 goldenrod. 



Subfamily VII. RHYPAROCHROMIN^E Stal, 1862a, 210. 



The characters set forth in the key, p. 339, are the principal 

 ones of importance separating this subfamily of Lygseidse from 

 those preceding. Our eastern species have the first two seg- 

 ments of beak united much longer than head, the first one alone 

 as long or almost as long as head ; ocelli not widely separated ; 

 females with fifth and sixth ventrals much narrowed toward 

 middle, not obliquely prolonged forward as in preceding sub- 

 families, but nearly vertical, the tips of the sixth meeting on 

 the median line of the apically compressed abdomen. It is by 

 far the largest of the subfamilies, comprising all the remain- 

 ing species of the family, or more than all the others combined. 

 For convenience of treatment Barber (1918, 71), following 



