SUBFAMILY II. — CAPSIN^E. 705 



of 1, with a narrow pale ring in front of base and a broader one beyond 

 middle; 3 brownish, paler at base, about two-thirds as long as 2; 4 fus- 

 cous, slightly shorter than 3. Genital segment of male with a broad erect 

 tubercle above base of left clasper. Length, 5 — 6 mm. 



Described from Washington, D. C. Recorded elsewhere only 

 from Massachusetts, New York and New Jersey. 



688 (941). Phytocoris palmeri Reuter, 1909, 32. 



Sordid white, variegated with fuscous and black; pronotum with 

 sides, narrow antebasal band and three stripes on disk blackish ; scutellum 

 shining black, basal angles and apical median line pale; elytra with 

 clavus, inner half of corium and apex of cuneus blackish, margins of 

 scutellum and commissure dirty white; membrane densely flecked with 

 minute fuscous and whitish spots, the veins pale; under surface in great 

 part blackish; femora blackish with pale lines on basal half, hind ones 

 paler at base and with whitish spots on apical half; tibiae and tarsi 

 blackish, the apical half of tibiae with three pale rings. Joint 1 of an- 

 tennae slender, linear, black, flecked with whitish; 2 with base black, a 

 narrow white band behind middle. Length, 7 mm. 



Known only from Quinze Lake, Quebec. Type in Van Duzee 

 collection. 



689 ( — ). Phytocoris conspurcatus Knight, 1920, 61. 



Elongate, slender. Dull grayish-yellow mottled with fuscous and 

 blackish spots and dots, and thickly clothed with black deciduous scale- 

 like hairs, intermixed with small patches of yellowish floccose ones; 

 corium with a triangular pale spot adjoining base of cuneus; membrane 

 thickly flecked with dark fuscous spots ; femora blackish with numerous 

 white spots, the hind ones with two interrupted pale rings on apical half; 

 tibiae annulated with fuscous and pale; ventrals dark fuscous to blackish, 

 the basal ones somewhat paler. Joint 1 of antennae black, flecked with 

 white, beset with numerous pale setae, about four-fifths as long as prono- 

 tum; 2 black with a pale ring at base and another at middle, slightly 

 more than twice as long as 1 ; 3 pale at base and again at middle, three- 

 fifths the length of 2; 4 black, three-fourths the length of 3. Male with 

 a long tubercle above base of left clasper, as shown in fig. 16. Length, 

 5.8 — 6 mm. 



St. Anthony Park, Minn., Aug. 5 (Minn. Unit'. Coll.). Ranges 

 from Ontario and New England west to Michigan and South 

 Dakota. Occurs from June to September on the bark of maple, 

 linden and pear. 



690 ( — ). Phytocoris davisi Knight, 1923, 624. 



Head dull white with a band across front and a line behind each eye, 

 blackish; pronotum with side margins broadly black, calli, center of disk 

 and collar in great part, pale brownish-yellow, hind margin narrowly 



