SUBFAMILY II. — CAPSIN^E. 687 



Variety rubromarginatus is recorded from New Hampshire, 

 New York, Pennsylvania and Michigan. The range of variety 

 regalis is southern, extending from New Jersey southwest to 

 Florida. In a specimen taken at Dunedin, Fla., April 19, the 

 scutellum is dull red tinged with fuscous, showing that these 

 color varieties merge into one another and are scarcely worthy 

 their varietal names. A single specimen of var. discifer was 

 swept April 10 from low huckleberry in pine woods near Dun- 

 edin. It is known only from Florida and Maryland. 



667. (903). Platytylellus robustus Reuter, 1913, 32. 



Elongate-oval. Dilute cinnabar red, opaque, pronotum thickly 

 clothed with short pale hairs. Elytra with similar blackish ones; tylus, 

 eyes, small median spot on apical margin of pronotum, scutellum except 

 the basal angles, elytra and legs black; pronotum with calli and trian- 

 gular spot on basal half fuscous tinged with reddish. Joints 1 and 2 

 of antennae densely pilose, 1 about one-fifth shorter than width of head 

 across eyes; 2 twice as long as 1, its length equal to width of pronotum 

 at base; 3 more slender, three-fifths the length of 2. Beak slightly sur- 

 passing hind coxae. Pronotum about one-fifth shorter than wide at base. 

 Scutellum one-third shorter than pronotum. Tibiae densely blackish 

 pubescent, the longest hairs equal to thickness of tibia. Length, 10 mm. 



Described from a single female taken in Georgia. Except 

 in the longer second antennal, the description differs little from 

 some of the color varieties of / rater n us Knight. 



668 (911). Platytylellus circumcinctus (Say), 1832, 23; I, 343. 



Color in great part orange-red ; head with front and tylus fuscous- 

 black; color of pronotum as in key; scutellum reddish, the basal angles 

 black; elytra black with embolium and outer margin of corium and 

 cuneus reddish; antennae and legs black, the coxae and basal fourth of 

 femora red ; genital segment and middle of last two ventrals fuscous. 

 Joint 1 of antennae one-eighth longer than width of vertex, 2 three times 

 longer than 1, 3 two-thirds the length of 2, one-half longer than 4. 

 Length, 7 — 7.5 mm. 



McCuller's and Cary, N. Car., September 13—15 (Brimlcy). 

 Described from Indiana. Ranges from New England west to 

 North Dakota and Utah. In one of the North Carolina speci- 

 mens the pronotum is wholly red, in the other only tinged with 

 fuscous near the base. 



669 ( — ). Platytylellus rubellicollis Knight, 1923, 555. 



Black; collar, front margin of disk of pronotum and lower half of 

 propleura orange-red to pink; scutellum sometimes (var. vittiscutis 

 Knight) with an orange-red stripe; this rarely (var. confluens Knight) 

 reaching forward to collar of pronotum. Joints 1 and 2 of antennae black, 



