698 FAMILY XXIX. — MIRID^E. 



of pronotum and median and two vague lateral stripes on both pronotum 

 and scutellum, outer margin of apical half of clavus, commissure, costal 

 margin and diagonal stripe on apical half of corium, usually yellowish or 

 tinged with yellow; membrane dusky with paler markings, veins yellow- 

 ish; legs reddish-brown, femora dotted with yellow; under surface with 

 alternate yellow and darker stripes. Joint 1 of antennae as long as 

 pronotum, pale reddish-brown flecked with yellow, its tip blackish; 2 as 

 long as width of hind margin of pronotum, or about three-fourths longer 

 than 1, its apical half piceous; 3 and 4 united subequal in length to 2, 

 their apical two-thirds or more blackish. Beak reaching tips of hind 

 coxa?, its apex black. Length, 6 — 7 mm. 



LeRoy, Ala., June 12 {Minn. Univ. Coll.). Recorded elsewhere 

 only from Maryland and the two Virginias, where it is said to 

 breed on the shrubby St. Johnswort, Hypericum prolificum L. 

 McAtee (1916, 386) has named the pale form var. abhttus, 

 though Reuter expressly states that the general color of the 

 typical form is "pallide flavo-testaceus, leviter nitidulus." 



681 (984V 2 ). Paracalocoris limbus McAtee, 1916, 380. 



Fuscous-black, rather thickly clothed with prostrate black hairs; 

 head, except a median spot on vertex, collar and median area around dis- 

 cal spots of pronotum and marginal stripe of elytra widened behind and 

 extending back to tip of cuneus, orange-red ; membrane brownish-fuscous ; 

 legs fuscous, some vague spots on femora and tarsi pale; under surface 

 reddish-yellow, the ventrals more or less fuscous. Joint 1 of antennae 

 blackish, thickly clothed with inclined bristly hairs; 2 and 3 fuscous- 

 brown with shorter hairs, the former about two-thirds longer than 1; 4 

 paler, slightly longer and more slender than 3. Length, 7.5 — 8 mm. 



Spring Hill, Ala., April 27 (Gerhard). Described from Clay- 

 ton, Ga., and recorded elsewhere only from Massachusetts. 



III. Garganus Stal, 1862, 321. 



Small, elongate, subparallel species having the head porrect, 

 wider across the eyes than long, its front subvertical ; eyes 

 prominent, distinctly projecting outward beyond apical angles 

 of pronotum ; beak passing hind coxa?, its basal joint longer 

 than head ; joint 1 of antenna? filiform, longer than pronotum, 

 2 much more robust, fusiform, densely clothed with stiff in- 

 clined black hairs, 3 very slender, one-half the length of 2, one- 

 third longer than 4 ; pronotum subtrapezoidal, one-half wider 

 at base than long, disk declivent with sides straight, strongly 

 converging from base to apex, collar very narrow, calli obso- 

 lete ; elytra with side margins parallel. Four species are known, 

 one from our territory. 



