434 FAMILY XI. — LYG^ID^E. 



joints darker; front femora and preapical ring on hind ones usually dark 

 brown ; remainder of legs and hind margins of pro- and metapleura pale 

 reddish-yellow. Head and front lobe of pronotum minutely sparsely 

 punctate; hind lobe of pronotum and scutellum more distinctly punctate. 

 Length, 3 — 3.5 mm. 



Porter and Kosciusko counties, Ind., July 24 — Sept. 15. Taken 

 by sifting debris near sphagnum swamps. A European species 

 ranging in this country from New England west and north 

 to Colorado and Alaska. In the east not recorded south of 

 New Jersey. Van Duzee found it not uncommon near Buffalo, 

 N. Y., May to August, "among moss and rubbish in fence rows. 

 The long and short-winged forms occur together as with 

 Blissus leucopterus, with which it may be found in winter hiber- 

 nating." 



388 (611). Scolopostethus atlanticus Horvath, 1893, 239. 



Form and size of thomsoni. Color much as there, the hind margin of 

 posterior lobe of pronotum usually darker, the preapical cross-bar of 

 elytra more pronounced; last two joints of antennas, except extreme base 

 of third, fuscous-brown; legs wholly pale. Side margins of front lobe 

 of pronotum rounded in front. Length, 3 — 3.5 mm. 



Lakehurst, N. J., April 2 (Barber) ; taken by sifting under 

 huckleberry. Sherborn, Mass., Oct. 18 (Frost). Ranges from 

 New England west to Washington and Vancouver, B. C, not 

 taken south of New Jersey. Bueno found it at the base of 

 clumps of tussock grass or sedge, May — July, and swept it in 

 numbers from the flowers or seeds of the tussock sedge in July. 

 Out of 80 specimens only five were macropterous, and three had 

 the antennas defective, one having both antennas only 3-jointed. 



389 (612). Scolopostethus diffidens Horvath, 1893, 240. 



Form and size of the other species. Color above paler; corium with 

 apical half or more pale brown, the hind margin fuscous-brown; antennae 

 with tip of second, apical half of third and all of fourth joints brownish; 

 femora all pale. Head and pronotum punctate as in thomsoni. Other 

 differences as in key. 



Cedar Lake, N. J., Oct. 25 (Barber). Ranges from Quebec 

 and New England west to Idaho and California and south to 

 New Jersey. Occurs under dead leaves. 



V. Valtissius Barber, 1918c, 62. 



Small shining species having the head triangular, inserted in 

 thorax to eyes; antennas pilose, first joint nearly as long as 



