SUBFAMILY II. — NABIN^E. 601 



from North Carolina, Georgia, Texas, California, Mexico and 

 Guatemala, but many of its southern records are doubtless 

 erroneous, as the name has been a kind of "catch-all" for 

 doubtful species. Uhler (1877, 428) states that it is: 



"Widely distributed in Colorado as well in the mountains as on the 

 plains and foot hills ; chiefly, however, in spots where the agency of man 

 is to be seen. Foreign weeds have been introduced and various plants 

 have been encouraged by the wider distribution of seeds near the streams 

 of water and on the routes of travel, and on these this species finds its 

 home and food." Later he says: "It secretes itself in the blossoms of 

 goldenrod or among the foliage of other low plants and lives by captur- 

 ing small insects." 



576 (— ). Nabis brevis Scholtz, 1846, 113. 



Brachypterous form — Elongate-oval. Dull clay-yellow; head with a 

 short median stripe, widened in front, and a spot in front of and behind 

 each eye, fuscous-black; front half of pronotum with a median fuscous 

 stripe and some brownish reticulations; scutellum blackish at middle; 

 elytra vaguely flecked with small dark points ; membrane dull yellow, the 

 veins brownish; mesosternum and a stripe along sides of under surface 

 fuscous-brown ; legs straw-yellow, front and middle femora with vague 

 brownish bars on inner face. Joint 1 of antenna? one-third shorter than 

 head, 2 nearly twice as long as 1, one-fourth longer than 3, 4 one-third 

 shorter than 3. Pronotum one-fourth longer at middle than wide at base, 

 its hind lobe smooth, subopaque, with two low obtuse ridges each side of 

 middle, humeral angles nodulose above. Elytra visibly widened from the 

 base, slightly passing tip of abdomen. Length, 6 — 6.5 mm. 



Woking, England (British Mus. Coll.). Recorded by Parshley 

 (1917, 67) as occurring at Cromwell, Conn., in December on 

 nursery stock imported from England. 



577 (830). Nabis roseipennis Reuter, 1873, 89. 



Elongate, slender. Dull grayish- to brownish-yellow, above usually 

 thickly mottled with fuscous dots and lines; head with a median dark 

 stripe and usually a blackish spot behind each eye; front lobe of prono- 

 tum with a narrow median stripe and irregular impressed lines fuscous, 

 hind lobe with three vague dark stripes each side; scutellum with disk 

 in great part black; elytra usually everywhere thickly mottled with 

 small fuscous dots; membrane dull yellow, the veins dusky; connexivum 

 pale yellow often tinged with crimson; joints 1 and 2 of antenna? pale 

 reddish-brown, the apex of 2 darker, 3 and 4 fuscous-brown; femora 

 thickly mottled with large reddish-brown dots ; tibiae with widely scat- 

 tered smaller dots; under surface in great part fuscous-brown, the 

 prosternum and middle of abdomen pale. Joint 1 of antennae slightly 

 shorter than head; 2 and 3 subequal, each twice the length of 1 ; 4 two- 

 thirds the length of 3. Eyes large, prominent. Pronotum about as 

 wide at base as long, its collar shorter than usual; hind lobe minutely 

 punctate. Elytra surpassing abdomen by one-third the length of mem- 



