694 FAMILY XXIX. — MIRIDjE. 



treme base and apical third blackish, the remainder brownish- 

 yellow, but usually paler at each end next to black color; 

 apex of corium with a fuscous or piceous mark. 679. colon. 

 yy. Color dull tawney-red, often variegated with yellow; prono- 

 tum, scutellum and elytra indistinctly striped with yellow; 

 apex of corium without a dark spot. 680. heidemanni. 



ee. Color fuscous-black, not mottled ; costal margin or more of corium 

 usually pale; second antennal at least 2.4 mm. in length, usually 

 longer; first antennal nearly equalling length of pronotum. 



681. LIMBUS. 



674 (979). Paracalocoris scrupeus (Say), 1832, 23; I, 342. 



Color exceedingly variable, in the typical form black with pronotum 

 behind the calli and scutellum bright orange-yellow, the former with col- 

 lar, calli, and usually a small vague spot near each basal angle fuscous 

 or black; the round impressed spot behind each callus velvety-black; tarsi 

 and joints 3 and 4 of antennae fuscous-brown, thickly and finely pubescent 

 with yellowish hairs. Joint 2 of antennae two-thirds longer than 1, 3 

 subequal in length to 4. Elytra sparsely clothed with short yellow in- 

 clined hairs. Length, 6.3 — 6.8 mm. 



Frequent throughout Indiana, May 20 — Aug. 1. Occurs espe- 

 cially on wild grape in and along the borders of thickets and 

 woodlands. Henderson, Ky., June 3 (Marshall). Ranges from 

 Quebec and New England west to Colorado and south to 

 Georgia. McAfee (1916, 369) and Knight (1923, 611) have 

 described and given keys to 18 color varieties. Of these the 

 two most widely distributed are : 



674a ( — ). Paracalocoris scrupeus par McAtee, 1916, 373. 



Fuscous-black; pronotum with median spot and a narrow stripe just 

 outside each discal black spot prolonged backward, dull yellow; costal 

 margin of elytra and median stripe on scutellum also dull yellow. 



Starke and Posey counties, Ind., June 3 — July 1. Ranges 

 from New York west to Nebraska. 



674b ( — ). Paracalocoris scrupeus bidens McAtee, 1916, 374. 



Fuscous-black; pronotum (except calli, collar and velvety spots be- 

 hind calli), scutellum, embolium and outer half of corium, orange-red or 

 reddish-yellow; cuneus scarlet-red, its tip blackish; clavus and inner half 

 of corium fuscous-black. Length, 6 — 6.5 mm. 



Marion Co., Ind., May 6 — Aug. 14; frequent on foliage of 

 herbs and shrubs in dense woodland (W. S. /?.). Pine Island, 

 N. Y., and Ramsey, N. J., June (Davis). Ranges from New 

 England west to Illinois. All variations between this and 

 typical scrupeus occur and the student wishing to name color 



