624 FAMILY XXIV. — ANTHOCORID^E. 



Raleigh, N. Car., Dec. 4 (Brimley). A cosmopolitan species 

 ranging in this country from Quebec and New England west to 

 Wisconsin and Colorado and southwest to North Carolina, 

 Texas and Mexico. It has been described under 13 different 

 names, the two formerly most used in this country being L. 

 fitchii Reut. and /.. domesticus (Schill.) Reuter states (1884, 8) 

 that in Europe it occurs in houses, stables, cow-sheds, the nests 

 of swallows, piles of grain, vineyards, gardens and beneath 

 bark. Uhler (1878, 417) says that: "In Maryland they live 

 beneath the loose bark of decaying trees such as oak and 

 liriodendron, but most likely are not confined to those kinds of 

 trees. Specimens from beneath bark where the debris is wet 

 and plastic are more robust, plethoric and darkly colored than 

 others which I have found in drier places." 



597 (843). Lyctocoris stalii (Reuter), 1871, 558. 



Oblong or elongate-oval. Dark reddish-brown, feebly shining, almost 

 glabrous; thorax, scutellum and cuneus often fuscous-brown; antennae 

 and legs pale brownish-yellow, the former with joints 3 and 4 often 

 darker; base of embolium, apex of clavus and a vague spot on inner apical 

 angle of embolium often dull yellow; membrane dusky-hyaline, paler 

 towards base. Head slightly longer than wide across the eyes. Joints 

 3 and 4 of antenna? subequal, each about two-thirds the length of 2. 

 Pronotum at base about twice as wide as long at middle and nearly twice 

 as wide as apex; disk with a wide shallow transverse median impression, 

 behind this finely rugose-punctate. Scutellum as long as the middle of 

 pronotum, its elevated basal portion almost smooth, apical portion rugu- 

 lose. Elytra entire, reaching apex of abdomen. Length, 3.8 — 4.2 mm. 



Putnam, Vigo, Jennings and Posey counties, Ind., scarce, 

 May 2 — Oct. 7 ; taken from beneath loose bark of walnut and 

 from a mass of dry decayed fleshy fungus at base of red oak 

 stump. Dunedin, Fla., Feb. 20, one from beneath bark of dead 

 oak ; this the first definite station record for that State. Hey- 

 worth, 111., Aug. 14 (Gerhard). Raleigh, Aberdeen and Lake 

 Waccamaw, N. Car., Feb. 10 — Oct. 11 (Brimley). Ranges from 

 New York west to Missouri and south and southwest to Florida 

 and Texas. Recorded also from California and Vancouver's 

 Island. 



598 (842). Lyctocoris elongatus (Reuter), 1871, 558. 



Form of stalii but averaging longer. Color darker, the upper sur- 

 face being a nearly uniform fuscous-brown ; inner apical angle of 

 embolium usually with a faint yellowish spot; antenna? and legs darker, 

 the former dark reddish- to fuscous-brown, the femora sometimes piceous- 

 brown; under surface dark reddish-brown, the middle of abdomen often 



