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FAMILY XXIX. — MIRID^E. 



111., July— August (Gerhard). Sherborn, Mass., May 22 (Frost). 

 Various localities in North Carolina, July (Brimley). Ranges 

 from Quebec and New England to the Pacific ; occurring usually 



in abundance in June and July on 

 grasses in low moist meadows, and 

 hibernating as imago. Previously 

 \A /J recorded mostly as Miris instabilis 



Uhler or M. affinis Reut., both of 

 which are synonyms. 



III. Mesomiris Reuter, 1909, 4. 



Oblong suboval species having 

 the head porrect, not longer than 

 broad, about one-third narrower 

 than base of pronotum, inserted in 

 thorax to eyes, vertex with a deep 

 median impressed line, tylus sub- 

 vertical ; beak reaching middle 

 coxae, its first joint not surpassing 

 base of head ; antennae subglabrous, 

 longer than body, joint 1 stout, 

 elongate cylindrical, feebly curved, 

 subequal in length to 4, 2 three 

 times as long as 1, 3 about one- 

 fourth shorter than 2; pronotum trapezoidal, as wide at base 

 as long, sides feebly sinuate, basal half convex, sparsely and 

 deeply punctate ; scutellum about as long as head, transversely 

 strigose, sparsely punctate ; elytra slightly surpassing abdomen, 

 sides feebly rounded, membrane with two distinct cells. One 

 species is known. 



642 (889). Mesomiris curtulus Reuter, 1909, 5. 



Brownish-yellow or dark brown, often with a strong reddish tinge, 

 margins of elytra paler; pronotum with narrow median carina extend- 

 ing back to tip of scutellum and edge of side margins yellow; legs and 

 antennae dull red ; claval vein often fuscous. Pronotum distinctly, deeply, 

 unevenly punctate, the carinae of its side margins sharp, entire, reaching 

 eyes. Hind femora unarmed. Length, 6 — 6.5 mm. 



Staten and Long Islands, N. Y., August (Davis). Barnegat 

 Bay District, N. J., Aug. 27 (Gerhard). Described from Mary- 

 land, where it occurs on wild rice. Known from southern New 

 England west to Pennsylvania. Resembles Stenodema vicinum, 



Stenodema vicii 

 (After Lugger). 



