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FAMILY XX. — NABID^E. 



brane. Genital segment of male about twice as long as broad. Length, 

 6.5—8.5 mm. (Fig. 150). 



Common throughout Indiana. Dunedin, Fla., Feb. 1 (U'.S. 

 B.). Henrietta and Lawrence, N. Car., April 24 — Dec. 9 



p(Brimley) . Sherborn, 

 Mass., October (Frost). 

 In Indiana it hibernates 

 beneath piles of weeds, 

 logs, basal leaves of mul- 

 lein and other cover, 

 especially in low damp 

 localities. In summer it 

 frequents for the most 

 part tall grasses and 

 weeds along streams and 

 the margins of swamps, 

 but is often taken in 

 dense upland woods. It 

 is probably the most com- 

 mon Nobis in the State, 

 outranking both ferns and 

 sordidus, which are next 

 to it in numbers. But 

 two specimens have been 

 taken at Dunedin, both 

 beneath the basal leaves 

 3f a thistle on Hog Island. 

 Not before known from 

 that State. Its known 

 range extends from Ontario and New England west to British 

 Columbia and Colorado and southwest to New Jersey and 

 Florida. The form described above is the one usually recorded 

 as N. punctipes Reut., in which the dorsal surface of abdomen is 

 fuscous-black. In the smaller and less common typical roseipen- 

 nis the surface of dorsum is almost wholly pale, and the elytra 

 are less mottled with fuscous, in fresh specimens often having 

 a pale roseate tinge. Both forms were described on the same 

 page, the types of both being from Wisconsin, and Reuter, after 

 the description of roseipennis, which has priority, adds: "An tan- 

 turn variatio pallidior sequentis?" Van Duzee mentions it as com- 

 mon about Buffalo, N. Y., May to September: "Occurring with 



Fig. 

 16, X. 



St. 



: li. 



Coll. 



(After Mundinger, 

 For.). 



Tech. Bull 



