708 FAMILY XXIX. — MIRID,£. 



695 (937). Phytocoris vittatus Reuter, 1909, 28. 



Head dull yellow or pale fuscous with front obliquely marked with 

 brown lines, both it and entire upper surface except membrane clothed 

 with white sericeous scale-like pubescence; pronotum dull yellow to gray- 

 ish, its sides fuscous with a sinuate black line next the pale outer edge, 

 the pubescence of disk forming three pale stripes; scutellum fuscous 

 with basal angles and side margins paler; clavus fuscous, paler along 

 commissui-e; corium as in key; embolium pale yellow, its apex blackish; 

 cuneus fuscous, its apex and inner margin blackish; membrane brownish- 

 fuscous, its middle flecked with pale spots; middle and hind femora 

 blackish, paler at base, the hind ones flecked with white dots ; front tibiae 

 blackish with two pale rings. Joint 1 of antennae reddish-fuscous marked 

 with white spots, its length as in key; 2 fuscous with pale spots near 

 base and a pale ring at middle, one and two-fifths times as long as 1 ; 

 3 fuscous with pale ring at base, as long as 1. Beak reaching fifth 

 ventral. 



Known only from Lake Placid, N. Y. 



696 ( — ). Phytocoris dimidiatus Kirschbaum, 1855, 199, 282. 



Grayish-yellow clothed with short yellowish and blackish pubescence; 

 head brownish-yellow, its front with oblique brownish lines each side and 

 cheeks with a black spot at base; pronotum dull greenish-yellow, hind 

 margin pale; median line behind calli and narrow side and subbasal 

 margins blackish; scutellum brown, basal angles and subapical spot each 

 side darker, median line and tip pale ; elytra blackish, the base and 

 middle of corium and inner margins of clavus paler, embolium pale, with 

 black spots ; cuneus yellowish with apex and spots on inner margin black- 

 ish; membrane pale, irregularly and thickly flecked with fuscous, the base 

 of large cell black; hind femora black with numerous spots and subapical 

 band pale; tibiae black with pale rings. Joint 1 of antennae about one- 

 third longer than pronotum, brownish black with numerous pale glabrous 

 spots; 2 nearly twice as long as 1, blackish with pale ring at base and 

 another slightly beyond middle; 3 black, pale at base, three-fifths the 

 length of 2; 4 black, two-thirds as long as 3. Length, 6.4 — 7 mm. 



A European species known in this country only from Nova 

 Scotia. 



697 ( — ). Phytocoris sulcatus Knight, 1920, 64. 



Elongate-oval. Dull brownish-yellow, more or less tinged with fus- 

 cous; pubescent as in fumatiis; outer half of clavus, inner half or less 

 of corium and inner half of cuneus fuscous or blackish; femora pale at 

 base, their apical halves flecked with large pale spots. Joint 1 of an- 

 tennae blackish with pale dots, as long as pronotum; 2 with distinct pale 

 annulations at base and middle, twice as long as 1 ; 3 brownish-yellow, 

 with a narrow pale ring: at base, two-thirds as long as 2; 4 yellowish, 

 two-fifths the length of 3. Male genitalia as in fig. 15; a large thick 

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



