SUBFAMILY I. — LYCTOCORINvE. 629 



and behind it minutely rugose; side margins each with two erect slender 

 setae. Scutellum with median depression wide and deep. Elytra surpass- 

 ing tip of abdomen by one-third the length of membrane. Length, 

 2.8—3 mm. 



Roselle Park, N. J., June 13 (Barber). A cosmopolitan 

 species ranging in this country from New York and New Jer- 

 sey west to Illinois and southwest to Florida, where it was 

 taken at Biscayne Bay by Mrs. Slosson. In England it is said 

 to be : "Plentiful near London, in spring and summer, among 

 the straw in heaps of stable-dung in fields." 



603 (847). Xylocoris sordidus (Reuter), 1871, 560. 



Elongate, slender. Head, pronotum and scutellum piceous-black, 

 subglabrous, moderately shining; elytra grayish- or yellowish-white, less 

 shining, the commissure and cuneus piceous; membrane whitish-hyaline, 

 dusky toward apex; antennae, beak, tibiae and tarsi pale brownish-yellow, 

 often tinged with fuscous; femora, except base, piceous. Joint 1 of 

 antennae scarcely reaching tip of tylus, 2 more than twice as long as 1, 

 3 three-fifths the length of 2, 4 two-thirds as long as 3. Pronotum 

 moderately narrowed toward apex; disk with a wide shallow impression 

 behind the middle, smooth in front of this, finely transversely rugose in 

 and behind it; basal margin subtruncate, the hind angles slightly pro- 

 longed. Apical portion of scutellum flattened, finely transversely rugose. 

 Elytra about reaching tip of abdomen, not surpassing it. Length, 

 2.7—3 mm. 



Dunedin, R. P. Park and Cleveland, Fla., Nov. 14 — April 8; 

 the first record for that State. Taken from beneath bark of 

 dead pine and by sweeping herbage near water ; both adults and 

 nymphs on the later date. Ranges from New York and Pennsyl- 

 vania, southwest to Florida, Texas, Mexico, Central America 

 and the West Indies ; the northern records perhaps to be re- 

 ferred to the macropterous form of the next species. A form 

 with a purplish spot near outer margin of middle of each clavus 

 is var. binotatus Reut. (1871, 560). 



604 (851). Xylocoris cursitans (Fallen), 1807, 74. 



Elongate-oval, macropterous form ; more broadly oval, brachypterous 

 one. Color as in key, sparsely clothed with very fine grayish pubescence; 

 antennae piceous-brown ; femora piceous ; beak, tibiae and tarsi dull yellow 

 or reddish-brown. Antennae less than half the length of body, joints 2 — 4 

 densely hairy. Pronotum scarcely longer than head, its base subtrun- 

 cate; transverse impression very faint; disk finely and sparsely punctate 

 and with a small round fovea at middle of basal third. Elytra, brachyp- 

 terous form, brownish-yellow, reaching only to base of third dorsal, with 

 apex truncate, clavus and embolium obsolete and membrane very short. 

 Length, 2.3—2.5 mm. 



