SUBFAMILY I. — MIRING. 671 



but readily distinguished by the shorter head and the very 

 short, fine pubescence of the antennal segments. 



IV. Megalocer^ea Fieber, 1858, 301. 



Elongate linear pale greenish species having the head one- 

 third longer than broad, nearly as long as pronotum ; beak 

 reaching or surpassing hind coxae, its first joint longer than 

 head ; antennae longer than body ; hind femora moderately 

 swollen, and subcylindrical throughout their length. Four 

 species are recorded from North America, one from the east- 

 ern states. 



643 ( — ). Megalocer^ea recticornis (Geoffroy) , 1785, 209. 



Elongate, slender. Greenish-yellow; pronotum brownish or brown- 

 ish-yellow, the margins and median carina paler; scutellum with a 

 brownish tinge, its median line yellow; membrane grayish, tinged with 

 purplish, slightly iridescent, the inner cell and apex paler, veins whitish; 

 legs greenish-yellow, the hind ones almost twice as long as middle pair, 

 clothed with short blackish hairs; tips of tibiae brownish; tarsi and claws 

 fuscous. Antenna? brownish-yellow, joint 1 as long as pronotum and 

 scutellum united, both it and basal two-thirds of 2 clothed with short 

 black hairs; 2 and 3 subequal, each twice as long as 1 ; 4 one-third the 

 length of 3. Pronotum with front margin of disk flattened, lateral 

 carina? prominent, not reaching front or hind angles ; calli large, low, 

 separated by a rather deep impression ; hind lobe of disk minutely 

 rugosely punctate. Length, 8 — 8.5 mm. 



Chiltern Hills, England (British Mus. Coll.) A palaearctic 

 European species taken by Fracker at Madison, Wis., June 27, 

 on foxtail, Cham&ropsis glauca L., and known in this country 

 only from there. In England it is not uncommon in midsummer 

 on plants growing along hedge rows. 



V. Miris Fabricius, 1794, 183. 



Elongate species of medium size having the head as wide as 

 long, slightly exserted, porrect, its front half moderately de- 

 clivent, vertex with a transverse depression just behind eyes ; 

 beak passing middle coxae, its basal joint surpassing base of 

 head ; eyes prominent ; pronotum trapezoidal, as wide at base 

 as long, disk minutely rugose, not punctate, feebly constricted 

 both before and behind the calli, the latter quite prominent ; 

 scutellum smooth ; mesoscutum strongly convex, partly ex- 

 posed ; elytra dimorphic, usually entire, surpassing the abdo- 

 men ; membrane with but one distinct cell, this one-half longer 

 than cuneus. Two species occur in eastern North America. 



