SUBFAMILY I. — LYCTOCORIN^E. 631 



entire, reaching tip of abdomen, the clavus always with two or 

 three rows, the corium usually with one or two rows, of more or 

 less distinct punctures ; membrane with veins wanting or 

 almost invisible; hind coxae contiguous; femora all elongate, 

 but little swollen. Genital segment of male oval, convex, some- 

 what contorted or twisted to one side. Three species are known 

 from our territory, two of which have not before been recorded 

 from this country. 



KEY TO EASTERN SPECIES OF ASTHENIDEA. 



a. Femora piceous, paler toward apex; elytra yellowish-white, the outer 

 half of the cuneus blackish; punctures of clavus very small, al- 

 most invisible. 606. temnostethoides. 

 aa. Legs wholly pale; punctures of clavus distinct. 



b. Elytra pale brownish-yellow, shining, distinctly pubescent, the 



cuneus usually in part darker. 607. pallescens. 



bb. Elytra dull grayish-white, subopaque, almost glabrous, the cuneus 



in great part blackish. 608. semipicta. 



606 (852). Asthenidea temnostethoides Reuter, 1884, 51. 



Oblong-oval. Head, pronotum and scutellum dark chestnut-brown; 

 elytra as in key, the apical third of corium sometimes tinged with brown; 

 membrane dusky, translucent, paler toward base; fem- 

 ora piceous or dark brown, yellowish at tip; tibiae yel- 

 low, brownish at middle; coxa?, trochanters and tarsi dull 

 yellow; beak and ventrals dark brown, shining, sterna 

 yellowish. Joint 1 of antennae brown, scarcely reaching 

 tip of tylus ; 2 yellow, apical third brownish and visibly 

 thickened, three times as long as 1 ; 3 and 4 more slender, 

 subequal, pilose, pale fuscous, united slightly longer than 

 2. Pronotum with posterior transverse impression deep, 

 , ill defined ; calli each with a circular impression, area 



Fig. lo9, X. 8. ' r 



(After Drake, behind them minutely transversely strigose. Elytra sur- 

 16, N. Y. st! passing abdomen by one-half the length of membrane, 

 Coll. For.). minutely yellowish-pubescent; clavus with two or three 



confused rows of small punctures ; corium smooth. Length, 2.2 — 2.5 

 mm. (Fig. 159). 



Anna and Parker, 111., June 27 — July 14 (///. Nat. Hist. Surv. 

 Coll.). Described from Illinois. Recorded elsewhere only from 

 the Cranberry Lake region of New York. 



607 ( — ). Asthenidea pallescens Reuter, 1884, 51. 



Elongate-ovate. Color usually a nearly uniform pale brownish- 

 yellow; inner half of cuneus often tinged with fuscous; base of pro- 

 notum and scutellum, except apex, rarely wholly or in part piceous; 

 membrane dusky hyaline; apical joints of antennae tinged with fuscous, 

 beak and legs wholly pale. Beak reaching mesosternum, its basal joint 



