SUBFAMILY II. — CAPSIN^E. 



709 



St. Anthony Park, Minn., Aug. 5 {Minn. Univ. Coll.). Ranges 

 from New England west to Minnesota. Occurs on the bark of 

 linden and bur oak. 



698 (938). Phytocoris fumatus Reuter, 1909, 25. 



Grayish-fuscous clothed with short subappressed blackish hairs and 

 with scattered spots of longer whitish ones; vertex with a large aluta- 

 ceous spot each side, front with oblique lines each side and a bar between 

 bases of antennae, reddish or blackish; pronotum fuscous-brown, calli 

 paler, narrow basal margin pale, preceded by a transverse row of four 

 or six small blackish pilose spots; scutellum fuscous-brown with apex 

 pale, basal angles, and a subapical spot each side, blackish; elytra fus- 

 cous to blackish, corium with a rhomboid translucent yellowish spot near 

 inner apical angle, this preceded by an oblique black bar; membrane pale, 

 thickly and rather evenly flecked with brownish-fuscous spots, the apex 

 and a spot near tip of cuneus pale; under surface blackish, paler at 

 middle, coxa? yellow; femora pale at base, their apical halves blackish 

 with pale spots, front and middle tibiae dull yellow, annulate near knees 



with black, hind ones black, the middle 

 third pale, tarsi fuscous. Antennae black- 

 ish-brown joint 1 as long as pronotum 

 and half of head, its upper face with 

 pale spots; 2 almost twice the length of 

 1, its extreme base and often a spot near 

 middle pale; 3 pale at base, about three- 

 fifths as long as 2; 4 nearly one-third 

 shorter than 3. Male genitalia as in 

 fig. 8. Length, 7 — 7.6 mm. 



Sherborn, Mass., Sept. 6 (Frost). 

 Ranges from Massachusetts and 

 New York southwest to Washing- 

 ton, D. C. Knight (1920, 64) 

 states that the type of Phytocoris 

 subnitidulus Reut. (1909, 26) in the 

 U. S. National Museum is identical 

 with that of P. fumatus Reut., the 

 latter name having page priority. 



699 ( — ). Phytocoris tuberculatus 

 Knight, 1920, 64. 



Fig. 168 

 Knight., X 



Phytocoris tuberculatus Brownish-yellow, more or less 



(Original). thickly mottled with fuscous; disk of 



pronotum with some vague spots and a distinct zig-zag transverse line 

 just in front of hind margin, fuscous, edge of hind margin white; clavus, 

 inner half of corium, and apical half of cuneus clouded with fuscous; 



