692 



FAMILY XXIX. — MIRID^E. 



about as wide at base as long, strongly narrowed toward apex, 

 its front portion with collar very distinct, side margins sinuate 

 at middle, without lateral carinse, hind lobe strongly convex, 

 its hind margin broadly rounded ; femora with apical halves 

 thickly pilose; hind tarsi with joints 1 and 2 subequal, 3 slight- 

 ly longer. One of the two known species occurs in our territory. 



673 (920). Neurocolpus nubilus (Say), 1832, 22; I, 341. 



Elongate-oval, thinly pubescent with short inclined yellow hairs. 

 Color exceedingly variable, usually some shade of brown, more or less 

 tinged with greenish-gray and clothed with fuscous, often with numerous 



yellow dots or blotches; head, pro- 



notum, scutellum, clavus, femora 

 and under surface usually in great 

 part clouded with fuscous; tibiae 

 yellow, all with three brown or fus- 

 cous rings; base of cuneus often 

 tinged with reddish, its apex and 

 the membrane usually tinged with 

 fuscous. Antennae with joint 1 and 

 basal half of 2 reddish-brown, re- 

 mainder fuscous; 1 stout, subcla- 

 vate, slightly shorter than prono- 

 tum, thickly setose; 2 about twice 

 as long as 1, much more slender at 

 base, its apical half distinctly 

 thickened ; 3 and 4 very slender, 

 subequal in length, united about 

 one-third shorter than 2. Length, 

 6_8 mm. (Fig. 166). 



Common throughout Indi- 

 ana, June 3 — Oct. 13. Occurs 

 on foliage and flowers of 

 shrubs and herbs, especially in 

 and along the margins of dense moist woodlands. Taken in 

 numbers in June from the flowers of false indigo, Amorpha 

 fruticosa L.; staghorn sumac, Rhus hirta L. ; alternate-leaved dog- 

 wood, Cornus altemifoHa L. ; and button-bush, Cephalanthus occi- 

 dentalis L. Ranges from Quebec and New England west to 

 South Dakota and Colorado and south to Florida and New Mex- 

 ico. Not taken by me in Florida, but recorded by Van Duzee 

 from Sevenoaks, near Clearwater. 



II. Paracalocoris Distant, 1883, 263. 



Elongate- or oblong-oval, opaque, impunctate, pubescent 



Fig. L66, X 



(Original). 



