SUBFAMILY VII. — RHYPAROCHROMINJE. 425 



ilarly punctate. Genital plate of male broadly rounded. Length, 

 4 — 5 mm. 



Indian Lake, Sabael, N. Y., Aug. 20 (Barber). An introduced 

 European palaearctic species known in this country only from 

 the mountainous regions of Quebec, New England and New 

 York. 



II. Malezonotus Barber, 1918c, 54. 



Small oblong-oval species, differing from Trapcconotus mainly 

 by characters given in key and having the first segment of 

 antennae barely exceeding tylus, second and fourth subequal, 

 third shorter than either ; pronotum with narrow side margins 

 usually pale, not punctate or setose, hind margin broadly con- 

 cave before the scuteJlum, which is flat, longer than wide, not 

 at all or very finely punctate ; clavus with three irregular rows 

 of punctures ; front femora swollen, armed beneath on apical 

 half with two or three teeth ; hind tibiae with short rigid 

 bristles. Four species are ascribed to the genus by Barber, 

 Trapezonotus rufipes Stal forming the type. Two of these occur 

 in the eastern states. 



KEY TO EASTERN SPECIES OF MALEZONOTUS. 



«. Elytra in great part brownish-yellow; membrane fuscous, paler at 



base. 376. sodalicius. 



aa. Elytra, except outer margin, piceous; membrane wholly piceous- 



black. 377. fuscosus. 



376 (581). Malezonotus sodalicius (Uhler), 1875, 835. 



Oblong-oval. Head, disk of pronotum, scutellum and under surface 

 dull black, sparsely clothed with a very short and fine yellow pubescence; 

 base of clavus and a large subapical spot on corium dull black, side and 

 hind margins of pronotum narrowly edged with straw-yellow; antennze 

 reddish-yellow, the fourth joint brown; legs pale brownish-yellow. Pro- 

 notum subquadrate, sides very feebly converging from base to near apex, 

 then rounded; disk minutely densely granulate-punctate, nodulose above 

 the hind angles. Elytra finely punctate, covering the abdomen and reach- 

 ing its tip. Length, 4 mm. 



Dilley, Ore., Aug. 20 (Barber). Seattle, Wash. (U.S.Nat. 

 Mus.). Recorded from Virginia and Mississippi by Barber 

 (1918c, 55), but its main distribution is west of the Rocky 

 Mountains. Common in strawberry beds on Vancouver Island 

 (Parshley, 1919, 17). 



377 ( — ). Malezonotus fuscosus Barber, 1918c, 56. 

 Elongate-oval, sides sub-parallel. Color of the preceding but the 



