SUBFAMILY II. — CAPSINjE. 699 



682 (971). Garganus fusiformis (Say), 1832, 24; I, 344. 



Color above black or fuscous-black; base of third antennal, collar of 

 pronotum, a wide median stripe on scutellum, a narrower one along com- 

 missure and each costal margin, ivory-white; legs, basal joint of anten- 

 na? and base of abdomen reddish-yellow; membrane, tarsi and third and 

 fourth antennals in great part fuscous. Length, 4 — 5 mm. 



Marion, Putnam, Knox and Orange counties, Ind., scarce, 

 May 30 — Oct. 10 ; not taken but doubtless occurs in the north- 

 ern counties (W.S.B.). Raleigh, N. Car., July 23 (Brimley). 

 Agricultural College, Miss. (Weed). Occurs on low herbage in 

 moist places. Ranges from Ontario and New England west to 

 Michigan and Kansas and south to Florida, where it has been 

 recorded only from Jacksonville and Crescent City. Of its 

 occurrence in southern Michigan Hussey says : 'This agile 

 Mirid was common in the grass in damp localities from June 20 

 to Sept. 1." 



IV. Phytocoris Fallen, 1814, 10. 



Elongate-oval or subparallel Mirids of medium size having 

 the head short, porrect, as broad as or broader across the eyes 

 than long, its front declivent; eyes prominent, longer than 

 wide; vertex usually without a median groove, not carinate at 

 base ; beak reaching beyond middle coxae, joints 1 and 2 of 

 equal length, 3 longer than 4, which is about one-half as long 

 as 2 ; antennae slender, almost filiform, as long as or longer than 

 body, its joints variable in length and thickness according to 

 species, the first sparsely clothed with stiff hairs; pronotum 

 short, subtrapezoidal, its subapical constriction distinct, collar 

 very short, calli more or less distinct, disk moderately declivent 

 from the base forward, its hind portion convex and hind mar- 

 gin subtruncate or broadly rounded, slightly emarginate at 

 middle ; mesoscutum narrowly exposed ; elytra surpassing abdo- 

 men, cuneus long, triangular, both it and membrane usually 

 deflexed ; hind tarsi with joints 2 and 3 subequal, 1 shorter. 



The genus is a very large one, 37 North American species 

 having been recognized by Van Duzee in his Catalogue and 30 

 or more having since been described by Knight. Of these 57 

 occur in our territory. 79 For convenience of study they are, 



7! 'The P. mops L'hler (1877, 413). recorded by Van Duzee from several eastern 

 states, was described from Colorado and, according to Knight (Ms.), the eastern 

 records are erroneous. L'hler later (1878, 402) redescribed it from Massachusetts and 

 New Hampshire, but his second description varies widely from the first, and Knight 

 states was based upon a specimen of Keurocolpus. 



