SUBFAMILY II. — NABIN^E. 595 



depressed. Elytra as in key, reaching second ventral. Macropterous 

 form — Elytra surpassing abdomen; membrane large, hyaline, with fus- 

 cous veins; apex of corium often with purplish lines. Length, 6.5 — 7 mm. 



Dunedin, Fla., Dec. 1 ; one brachypterous male swept from 

 low herbage in pine woods ; another, Feb. 22, sifted from weed 

 debris. A neotropical species described from Mexico and previ- 

 ously recorded in this country only from Colorado, Texas and 

 New Mexico. Very similar to crassipes, but narrower, with front 

 femora less swollen, dark spots of connexivals smaller and 

 elytra with pinkish or purplish markings. 



567 (820). Nabis sordidus Reuter, 1873, 85. 



Elongate-oval, the female broader behind. Above dull yellow mottled 

 with numerous fuscous lines and blotches; head behind eyes, sides of 

 front lobe of pronotum and some irregular lines on its disk, several short 

 stripes on basal half of hind lobe, scutellum, except a spot each side, 

 numerous small blotches on clavus and corium and membrane in great 

 part, fuscous; a triangular spot each side of scutellum, basal third of 

 costal margin of elytra, and a small pale calloused spot opposite base of 

 membrane on corium, dull yellow; connexivals 1 — 5 with incisures fus- 

 cous, the basal half of 6 with a large fuscous spot; joints 1 and 2 of 

 antenna? reddish-brown, 3 and 4 fuscous; femora with numerous brown 

 spots, the middle and hind ones annulate near apex; tibiae annulate with 

 brown rings; under surface dull yellow, the sterna and three stripes on 

 abdomen fuscous. Basal joint of antenna? about as long as head, 2 — 4 

 subequal, each one-fourth longer than 1. Elytra, macropterous form, 

 slightly surpassing abdomen; brachypterous one reaching middle of sec- 

 ond dorsal, their tips rounded and membrane very short. Connexivum 

 of female broadly exposed, strongly reflexed; of male wholly concealed. 

 Length, 6.5 — 8 mm. 



Frequent throughout Indiana, more so in the southern por- 

 tion ; occurring throughout the year. Hibernates beneath logs, 

 basal leaves of mullein and other cover along roadsides and 

 borders of fields ; in summer swept from low herbage in dense 

 woods and especially from the great ragweed, Ambrosia trifida 

 L., along the margins of ponds and streams. In my collecting 

 I have found the brachypterous form more common than the 

 long-winged one and the females much more common than the 

 males. Its known range extends from Massachusetts west to 

 Wisconsin and south and southwest to Florida, Texas, Panama 

 and the West Indies. In Florida it has been recorded only from 

 Newberry. Hussey reports it as "taken sparingly from under- 

 growth in the woods and from woodland grasses," in Berrien 

 Co., Mich. 



