SUBFAMILY II. — CAPSIN^E. 



703 



Pig. 167, a, Phytocoris lasiomerus Reut., X 6 ; b, Macrotylus sexguttatus (Prov.), X 12. 

 (After Drake, Tech. Pub. No. 16, N. Y. St. Coil. For.). 



684 (923). Phytocoris pallidicornis Reuter, 1876, 69. 



Pale brownish-yellow; elytra thickly flecked with reddish-brown spots 

 and clothed with pale silky appressed hairs ; extreme apex of cuneus 

 brown ; membrane pale fuscous flecked with whitish spots, the veins red- 

 dish; femora thickly sprinkled with reddish dots, apical third of hind 

 ones with a yellowish band; tips of front and middle tibiae and base of 

 hind ones reddish-brown. Joint 1 of antennae but slightly longer than 

 pronotum, dull yellow, thickly flecked with reddish spots, pubescent as 

 in key; 2 uniformly reddish-yellow, finely pubescent, much more slender 

 and twice as long as 1 ; 3 dull yellow, fuscous at tip, about two-thirds the 

 length of 2; 4 fuscous-brown, three-fourths the length of 3. Length, 

 6.4 — 6.8 mm. 



Oak Bluffs, Mass., Aug. 3 (Olsen). Described from Wiscon- 

 sin. Ranges from New England west to Colorado. Readily 

 distinguished from lasiomerus by the much shorter basal anten- 

 nal and wholly yellow second one. 



685 ( — ). Phytocoris rubropictus Knight, 1923, 619. 



Elongate, slender, male; more oval, female. Dull reddish; elytra 

 sparsely clothed with yellowish pubescence; pronotum with calli and 

 quadrangular area on center of disk, yellowish, the disk beset with 

 rather short blackish hairs, its margins with longer ones; clavus and 



