676 FAMILY XXIX. — MIRID^. 



species ranging in this country from Quebec and New England 

 west to Alaska, Kansas and Colorado. Not recorded south of 

 Maryland. Uhler (1872, 409) says that in Massachusetts it 

 abounds upon the salt marshes near the coast. 



649 (891). Trigonotylus pulcher Reuter, 1876, 59. 



Pale green or greenish-white ; head and pronotum with roseate 

 stripes as in key, these often vague in dried specimens, in fresh ones 

 usually prominent, the median one extending to apex of scutellum and 

 with a narrow yellowish line along its middle; elytra each with three 

 similar roseate lines along the principal veins, the lateral ones often 

 reaching back to end of cuneus ; femora with similar roseate stripes ; 

 third joint of tarsi and claws fuscous. Length, 4.5 — 5 mm. 



Dunedin, Moore Haven and Cape Sable, Fla., Nov. 16 — March 

 7 (Jl'.S.B.). Agricultural College, Miss. (Weed). Recorded 

 from nine additional Florida stations. Frequent about Dune- 

 din in late autumn on goldenrod and tall grasses along the 

 margins of ponds. Described from Texas. Recorded by Van 

 Duzee as ranging from Maine to Colorado and south to Florida 

 and Texas, but the northern records probably refer to uhleri as 

 pulcher is not included in either Parshley's New England List 

 or the "Hemiptera of Connecticut." 



650 (892). Trigonotylus brevipes Jakovlef, 1880, 215. 



Form and size of pulcher. Color a nearly uniform pale green fad- 

 ing to greenish-yellow; antennae often with a reddish tinge; under sur- 

 face (in dried specimens) pale brown, the hind margin of each ventral 

 paler; tarsi tinged with reddish, the apical half of third joint and claws 

 fuscous. Length, 4.8 — 5.2 mm. 



Dunedin, Fla., April 21. Taken in numbers from a fine grass 

 growing on the mucky borders of a pool on Hog Island. No 

 previous definite station record for that State. A cosmopolitan 

 submaritime species, known heretofore in this country from 

 Connecticut, Maryland and California; also from Jamaica and 

 Cuba. 



651 (894). Trigonotylus uhleri (Reuter), 1876, 60. 



Pale green, fading to greenish-yellow; pronotum and elytra with 

 rosaceous or fuscous stripes as in key, these prolonged backward to 

 cuneus, but often subobsolete in dried specimens; antennae greenish-yel- 

 low, the fourth joint dusky; ventrals and tarsal claws fuscous. Length, 

 6.2 — 7.5 mm. 



Staten Island, N. Y., and Dennisville, N. J., June 24 — Sept. 6 

 (Da- 'is) ; taken on salt meadows. Known only from New Eng- 



