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FAMILY XI. — LYG;£ID;£. 



elytra piceous with costal margin and submargin pale; pronotum with 

 only the narrow reflexed side margins pale; last two joints of antennae 

 piceous, basal joints and legs reddish-yellow. Pronotum as in sodalicius, 

 disk of front lobe minutely granulate, of hind one finely punctate and 

 near base finely transversely wrinkled or furrowed. Membrane in 

 brachypterous forms reaching apex of fifth dorsal, in macropterous ones 

 the tip of abdomen. Length, 3.5 — 4 mm. 



Lakehurst, N. J., April 2 {Barber). Known only from New 

 Jersey and New York, where it occurs in spring beneath leaves 

 under huckleberry bushes and in the washup of the beaches. 



III. Sphragisticus Stal, 1872b, 55. 



Here belongs a single medium sized species having the head 

 declivent, slightly wider across the eyes than front margin of 

 pronotum ; beak reaching middle coxae ; pronotum subtrapezoi- 

 dal, its sides straight, feebly converging toward apex, their 

 margins rather widely flattened ; scutellum longer than wide ; 

 elytra usually entire, covering abdomen and reaching its tip ; 

 front femora armed beneath with a prominent preapical spine 

 and two or three minute teeth ; tibiae provided with short, stiff 

 bristles. Other characters as in generic key. 



378 (592) 



Sphragisticus nebulosus (Fallen), 1807, 65. 



Elongate-oval. Head, disk of front lobe 

 of pronotum, scutellum in great part and 

 under surface dull black; hind lobe of prono- 

 tum, two subapical spots on scutellum and 

 elytra grayish-yellow, punctate with fuscous; 

 membrane brownish-yellow, the veins paler; 

 second and third joints of antennas, tibiaa and 

 tips of femora reddish-brown; first and fourth 

 antennals, femora and some irregular spots 

 on apical half of corium dark brown or piceous. 

 Other characters as above. Length, 5 — 5.3 

 mm. (Fig. 88). 



Fis 



x 



(After Forbes). 



Taken in Indiana only in Vigo Coun- 

 ty, where it hibernates beneath rubbish 

 along the borders of sandy fields, espe- 

 cially those in which melons have been cultivated ; probably 

 occurs in similar localities throughout the State. It is a Euro- 

 pean species, but ranges in this country from Ontario and New 

 England west to the Pacific ; recorded also from Texas, New 

 Mexico and California. Hussey reports it as rather common 

 near the sand dunes of Berrien Co., Mich. Easily known by the 



