572 FAMILY XIX. — REDUVIIDjE. 



Vienna, Va., July 24 (Barber). Falls Church, Va., July 24 

 (Banks) . Ranges from Ontario and New England southwest 

 to Virginia. 



545 ( — ). Zelus angustatus Hussey, 1925, 66. 



Elongate, subparallel. Brownish-yellow, more or less tinged with 

 fuscous, sparsely clothed above, thickly beneath, with white scale-like 

 hairs; veins of corium and margins of connexivum dull yellow; head and 

 outer half of corium fuscous-brown; membrane whitish-hyaline, feebly 

 iridescent, the veins dull yellow; legs brownish-yellow, thickly pilose. 

 Antennal joints 1 and 2 and base of 3 brownish-yellow, remainder paler; 

 joint 1 nearly three times as long as head, two and one-half times as 

 long as 2, 3 nearly twice the length of 2, 4 two-thirds as long as 3. Head 

 about as long as pronotum, hind lobe feebly and gradually narrowed 

 from eyes to base, transverse interocular groove feebly impressed, median 

 longitudinal carina very fine. Pronotum one-fourth longer than wide at 

 base, hind lobe one-half longer than front one, its spines rather short 

 and blunt. Length, 14 mm. 



Gainesville, Fla., December; type male (Hussey). Recorded 

 only from there. Allied to Z. soeius, but readily distinguished 

 by the characters given in key, by the covering of whitish 

 tomentose scales, the more shallow transverse impressions of 

 head and pronotum, and the longer first antennal. 



II. Rhynocoris Hahn, 1834, 20. 



Small elongate-oval species having the front lobe of head dis- 

 tinctly longer than hind one ; basal joint of antennae nearly 

 twice the length of head, 2 and 4 subequal, 3 shortest ; front 

 lobe of pronotum very short with a large fovea at its base ; 

 apex of scutellum narrowly rounded ; elytra slightly surpass- 

 ing tip of abdomen ; connexivum widely exposed, strongly re- 

 curved ; legs with numerous stiff erect hairs. Two species oc- 

 cur in North America, one in our territory. 



546 (777). Rhynocoris ventralis (Say), 1832, 31; I, 355. 



Elongate-oval. Head, antenna?, disk of hind lobe of pronotum, scutel- 

 lum, sterna, sides of ventrals 1 — 4, and legs, except coxae, black, shining; 

 front lobe of pronotum in great part, margins of hind lobe, corium, 

 coxa? and abdomen, dull red; clavus and membrane brown; connexivum 

 red, the base of each segment black. Second joint of beak strongly com- 

 pressed, as long as the others united. Length, 10.5 — 11.5 mm. 



Mineral Springs, Ind., and Palos Park, 111., June 25 — July 5 

 (Gerhard). It is a member of the Transition Life Zone, its 

 main distribution extending from New England west to Ne- 

 braska, British Columbia, Utah and California. Say recorded 



