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383 (599). Drymus crassus Van Duzee, 1910, 76. 



Larger and darker than unus. General color above and beneath a 

 nearly uniform dark brown ; elytra a somewhat paler brown ; membrane 

 dark-brown, the veins eoneolorous. Head and entire pronotum very 

 densely and somewhat coarsely punctate. Costal area of corium more 

 widely expanded at base than in unus: Other differences as in key. 

 Length, 6.5 — 7 mm. 



Southern half of Indiana, frequent, July 3 — Oct. 10 ; not 

 taken north of Marion County. On the former date it was 

 found in numbers in Knox County beneath dead leaves on the 

 sandy, densely wooded slope of a small stream. Ranges from 

 New England west to southern Indiana and southwest to North 

 Carolina. 



II. Gastrodes Westwood, 1840. 122. 



Oval depressed species of medium size, having the head 

 triangular, pointed, slightly wider across eyes than front mar- 

 gin of pronotum ; beak reaching middle coxse ; pronotum 

 triangular, sides straight, and converging towards apex, which 

 is only one-half the width of base; third ventral suture of 

 abdomen almost straight and reaching side margins. Other 

 characters as in generic key. A single introduced European 

 species occurs in our territory. 



384 (605). Gastrodes ferrugineus (Linnaeus), 1767, 730. 



Elongate-oval, strongly depressed. Pale brick-red, shining; head, 

 front lobe of pronotum, scutellum and sterna, piceous-black; under sur- 

 face of abdomen reddish-brown, the sides fuscous; legs reddish-brown. 

 Head, front lobe of pronotum and prosternum densely punctate. Hind 

 lobe of pronotum and elytra much more sparsely punctate. Elytra cover- 

 ing the abdomen, the costal margins rather widely expanded. Fore 

 femora much enlarged, flattened, their front margin serrate before and 

 behind the preapical tooth. Length, 6 — 6.5 mm. 



Banks (1910, 64) records this species from the "Northern 

 States." I have seen only European examples. 



III. Eremocoris Fieber, 1861, 49, 187. 



Medium sized Lygseids having the head narrow, almost por- 

 rect, not inserted in thorax to eyes; pronotum longer than 

 wide, apical lobe rather strongly convex, side margins with 

 expansions wider and distinctly paler opposite the constriction ; 



