706 FAMILY XXIX. — MIRID^. 



pale, preceded by a transverse row of black spots; scutellum yellowish 

 tinged with fuscous and with a vague paler median line; clavus fuscous, 

 its margin paler; corium dull yellow, its inner apical angle blackish, outer 

 one paler; embolium blackish alternated with white spots; cuneus pale, 

 apex and spot on middle of inner margin black; upper surface clothed 

 with pale silky pubescence, intermixed with short black hairs ; legs dull 

 yellow, apical halves of femora with large black spots, front and middle 

 tibiae each with three black rings; hind tibia? mottled with fuscous; ven- 

 trals yellowish-white, with pale pubescence. Joint 1 of antennae black 

 with a few pale spots, one and three-fourths times the length of prono- 

 tum; 2 black with a broad pale band at base and another at middle, 

 nearly twice as long as 1 ; 3 blackish, paler at base and in front of 

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

 Length, 6.3 mm. 



Known only from Long Island, N. Y., and Lakehurst, N. J. 



691 (927). Phytocoris minutulus Reuter, 1909, 24. 



Elongate, slender, subparallel. Brownish-yellow to fuscous, clothed 

 with yellowish silken pubescence intermixed with short black hairs ; basal 

 edge of pronotum whitish preceded by dark fuscous ; scutellum with a 

 small fuscous dot each side near apex; elytra chiefly pale fuscous, flecked 

 with minute spots of pale pubescence; clavus often paler on sides, corium 

 with outer margin and anal ridge pale; embolium with small pale spots; 

 cuneus with apex, spots on base and near middle of inner margin black- 

 ish; membrane flecked with fuscous and with two paler spots on outer 

 margin, veins brownish; femora brownish-black, their base, numerous 

 spots and subapical band paler; tibia? fuscous, each with two or more pale 

 rings; tarsi pale, their tips and basal segment dusky. Joint 1 of anten- 

 nae two-thirds longer than pronotum, reddish-brown flecked with paler, 

 and beset with several pale setae ; 2 brownish-yellow, darker at tip and 

 in front of basal pale ring, nearly twice as !ong as 1; 3 and 4 very 

 slender, 3 pale at base, darker apically, two-thirds the length of 2; 4 

 pale fuscous, but little shorter than 3. Length, 5 — 5.5 mm. 



Chautauqua, N. Y., Sept. 14 (fan Duzee). Known only from 

 Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York and Maryland. 



692 (— ). Phytocoris junceus Knight, 1923, 621. 



Head shining black beset with prominent brownish-black hairs, 

 median line pale, vertex alutaceous each side; color of pronotum as in 

 key; scutellum black, basal angles whitish; clavus dull yellow, its margins 

 and claval vein black; corium black, a spot on middle and some streaks 

 on inner apical half yellowish; embolium a uniform fuscous; cuneus black, 

 paler on base; membrane dark fuscous, its middle paler with numerous 

 more or less coalescent fuscous spots; ventrals brownish-black; femora 

 blackish with pale spots, hind pair with an irregular pale subapical yel- 

 lowish bar. Antennae fuscous to black, joint 1 flecked with pale spots, 

 finely pubescent and with several black setae, but slightly longer than 

 pronotum; 2 slender, cylindrical, two and three-fifth times as long as 1; 

 3 two-thirds the length of 2, twice as long as 4. Length, 8.5 — 9.2 mm. 



