704 FAMILY XXIX. — MIRID;£. 



corium dull red, the claval vein and scattered spots on corium yellowish; 

 membrane pale, flecked with small fuscous spots, these merging toward 

 apex, veins reddish; legs dull yellow, femora with small vague reddish 

 spots. Under surface reddish to yellowish, genital region tinged with 

 fuscous. Joint 1 of antenna? dull yellow flecked with reddish, as long as 

 pronotum; 2 much more slender, straw-yellow, brownish toward apex, 

 one and three-fourth times the length of 1 ; 3 yellowish, dusky at tip, 

 two-thirds as long as 2; 4 pale fuscous, three-fourths the length of 3. 

 Length, 7.4 — 8 mm. 



Known only from Maine and New York. 



686 ( — ). Phytocoris ulmi (Linnaeus), 1758, 449. 



Elongate, subparallel, male; elytra more oval, female. Brownish- 

 red or reddish-yellow, rather thickly clothed with short yellow appressed 

 hairs intermixed with suberect black ones; pronotum reddish-brown, basal 

 edge yellowish-white, usually preceded by a transverse blackish spot; col- 

 lar and side margins beset with black bristles; scutellum yellowish, its 

 apical half with a brown spot each side; clavus reddish-brown, its outer 

 margin often paler, tip blackish; corium brownish-yellow, flecked with 

 reddish-brown, its apical fourth with a pale triangular spot; cuneus red- 

 dish or fuscous, its basal third paler; membrane smooth, hyaline, thickly 

 flecked with small fuscous spots, veins reddish; front and middle femora 

 pale brown with numerous scattered yellowish spots, hind ones dark 

 brown flecked with whitish dots, the apical half with a pale half ring. 

 Joint 1 of antenna? brownish with pale spots, one-fifth longer than 

 pronotum; 2 and 3 yellowish-brown, 2 more than twice as long as 1, 3 

 two-thirds the length of 2; 4 fuscous, two-thirds as long as 3. Length, 

 6 — 7.5 mm. 



Snowdonia and Sussex Co., England, July — Aug. (British Mus. 

 Coll.). A European species recorded in this country only from 

 Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. Occurs in Europe on elm, oak, 

 brambles, etc. 



687 (928). Phytocoris antennalis Reuter, 1909, 32. 



Fuscous to dull yellow; head brownish, base and apex of tylus white; 

 pronotum brownish, basal third darker with hind margin narrowly white 

 and calloused spots as in key; scutellum dull yellow to fuscous with a 

 vague narrow pale median line; corium dull yellow with inner half and 

 a median spot along outer margin fuscous; cuneus blackish along outer 

 margin and apex, the inner basal angle and middle of inner margin each 

 with a tuft of black hairs; membrane fuscous, mottled with numerous 

 paler spots between the cells and opposite apex of cuneus; femora black, 

 paler toward base, hind pair with lower face spotted with paler and 

 upper one with a subapical pale band; front and middle tibiae reddish to 

 black, the former with three, the latter with four pale rings; hind tibia? 

 pale tinged with blackish, tarsi fuscous; under surface blackish, the 

 sides unevenly tinged with reddish. Antenna? longer than body, joint 1 

 brownish-black flecked with paler spots on inner face; 2 twice the length 



