SUBFAMILY VII. — RHYPAROCHROMIIsLE. 433 



386 ( — ). Eremocoris setosus Barber Ms. 



Larger and darker than ferns. General color dark piceous-brown; 

 narrow side margins of pronotum and costal margin of corium dull yel- 

 low; hind lobe of pronotum, elytra, antennae and legs chestnut-brown, 

 tarsi paler. Pronotum longer, the constriction less evident than in ferus; 

 disk thickly pilose with erect yellowish hairs ; hind lobe coarsely punc- 

 tate. Head, elytra, femora and tibia? thickly beset with similar hairs. 

 Front tibia? of males strongly curved, the apex widened. Length, 

 7 — 7.5 mm. 



Vigo, Putnam, Knox and Posey counties, Ind., May 6 — Aug. 

 11. Taken beneath logs on slopes of upland wooded pastures 

 and swept from boneset and other Compositse. Known in the 

 east from New York, New Jersey and Virginia. 



IV. Scolopostethus Fieber, 1861, 49, 188. 



Small elongate-oval species having the head triangular, sub- 

 porrect, inserted in thorax almost to eyes ; beak reaching 

 middle coxae; pronotum as in Eremocoris; scutellum elongate- 

 triangular, faintly carinate near apex ; elytra entire and reach- 

 ing tip of abdomen or abbreviated and reaching fifth dorsal. 

 Other characters as in generic key. Sixteen species are known, 

 four from North America. Of these three occur in our ter- 

 ritory, all having a northern range. 



KEY TO EASTERN SPECIES OF SCOLOPOSTETHUS. 



a. Apical third or less of elytra with a fuscous cross-bar. 

 b. Side margins of pronotum sinuate opposite the constriction and 

 rounded in front; front femora armed with small teeth both be- 

 fore and behind the larger spine; membrane in macropterous 

 form pale, the veins fuscous, without pale spot each side. 



387. THOMSONI. 



bb. Side margins of pronotum straight; front femora with small teeth 

 only in front of larger spine; membrane fuscous, variegated with 

 pale, in macropterous form with a large pale spot each side. 



388. ATLANTICUS. 



aa. Apical half or more of elytra pale brown without fuscous cross-bar; 

 side margins of pronotum almost straight; membrane dark brown 

 with a large pale spot each side; front femora armed as in 

 atlanticus. 389. diffidens. 



387 (610). Scolopostethus thomsoni Reuter, 1874, 562. 



Elongate-oval. Head except tylus, front lobe of pronotum, scutel- 

 lum and under surface piceous-black; side margins of pronotum and 

 costal margin of corium in great part pale yellow; hind lobe of prono- 

 tum and basal two-thirds of elytra brownish-yellow, sparsely and finely 

 punctate with fuscous ; antenna? at base reddish-yellow, the last two 



