422 FAMILY XI. — LYGJEWJE. 



Oka, Quebec, Aug. 18 (Barber). Known in North America 

 only from Quebec and Nova Scotia. 



372 ( — ). Stygnocoris pedestris (Fallen), 1829, 64. 



Oblong oval, above thickly clothed with suberect yellowish hairs. 

 Head, thorax, scutellum and under surface piceous-black, shining; elytra 

 reddish-brown; membrane fuscous, paler at base; antennae brownish- 

 yellow, the fourth joint piceous ; legs pale brownish-yellow. Head and 

 pronotum less densely punctate than in nisticus. Elytra entire, covering 

 the abdomen. Length, 2.5 — 3 mm. 



Elka Park, N. Y., Aug. 13 (Barber). Known in this country 

 from Truro and Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, and from the moun- 

 tainous regions of New York. 



VI. Antillocoris Kirkaldy, 1904, 280. 



Very small oval species having the head somewhat declivent, 

 as wide across eyes as front margin of pronotum ; beak reaching 

 middle coxae, its basal segment shorter than first antennal ; 

 joint 1 of antennae as long as 2, exceeding tylus by half its 

 length, 2 and 4 subequal in length, 3 shorter; pronotum trape- 

 zoidal, feebly constricted to form two lobes, front lobe in great 

 part impunctate, its side margins finely carinate; scutellum 

 equilateral, not carinate ; elytra usually macropterous, cover- 

 ing sides of abdomen but scarcely reaching its tip, in brachyp- 

 terous forms the membrane sometimes wholly absent ; fore 

 femora slightly swollen, unarmed. Three species are known 

 from this country, two from the eastern states. They are the 

 smallest of our Lygaeidae and were formerly recorded under 

 the genus Pyyccus Uhler (1894, 187), a preoccupied name. 



KEY TO EASTERN SPECIES OF ANTILLOCORIS. 



a. Upper surface thickly pilose with long yellow hairs ; membrane in 

 brachypterous forms wholly absent. 373. pilosulus. 



aa. Upper surface thinly pilose with very short hairs ; membrane al- 

 ways present. 374. pallidus. 



373 (578). Antillocoris pilosulus (Stal), 1874, 158. 



Narrowly oval. Dark chestnut-brown, rather thickly pilose with 

 long inclined yellowish hairs; antennae dark reddish-brown; legs, sterna 

 and apex of abdomen pale reddish-brown. Head shining, impunctate. 

 Hind lobes of pronotum and scutellum minutely densely punctate. Corium 

 reaching middle of fourth dorsal. Other characters as above described. 

 Length, 1.8 — 2 mm. 



Putnam and Posey counties, Ind., scarce, March 20 — April 

 22. Taken from beneath stones on the slopes of hillside pas- 



