716 FAMILY XXIX. — MIRID^. 



ee. Scutellum with black spot on margin each side of apical half, but 

 this scarcely longer than broad, not reaching more than half 

 way to middle of disk; length, 5.4 — 5.9 mm. 

 j. Hind femora with a distinct white band near apical fourth and 

 usually with large pale spots near middle. 

 A - . Second antennal pale or yellowish above, darker near apex and 

 next to pale ring at base; scutellum and clavus clothed with 

 suberect yellowish or fuscous hairs intermingled with short 

 sericeous white pubescence; center of membrane somewhat 

 fuscous. 716. EXIMIUS. 



kk. Second antennal dark brown or black except at base; pronotum, 

 scutellum and clavus clothed with black hairs, intermixed 

 with conspicuous white sericeous pubescence. 717. buenoi. 

 jj. Hind femora without a distinct white band near apical fourth, 

 the pale spots near middle small. 

 /. Corium with conspicuous triangular black mark set obliquely 

 across its apex; cuneus usually reddish. 718. erectus. 



//. Corium with a light, almost interrupted fuscous mark set ob- 

 liquely across its apex; cuneus rarely if ever reddish. 



720. BREVIFURCATUS. 



cc. Corium without a distinct black mark across its apical area, this 

 area sometimes fuscous but the dark color broken by paler spots, 

 but if not, the black color on radius distinctly darker than the 

 oblique infuscation. 

 m. Corium distinctly greenish on apical half; second antennal black 

 with pale ring at base. 

 n. Length, 5.1 — 5.5 mm. 721. penipectus. 



nn. Length, 4.8 mm. 722. pectinatus. 



nnn. Corium not distinctly green. 



o. Elytra more brownish than black; dark color on middle of clavus 

 and apical area of corium broken into small spots; pubescence 

 chiefly golden-brown; length, 6 mm. 723. salicis. 



oo. Elytra sometimes brownish but the dark color not broken into 

 small spots. 

 p. Front and vertex pale to yellowish, not distinctly marked with 

 blackish, rarely with short red lines near each eye; scu- 

 tellum pale to yellowish with a small submarginal brown 

 or fuscous spot each side near apical fourth; length, 6.2 mm. 



724. ANGUSTULUS. 



W- Front and vertex transversely marked with blackish lines. 

 q. Scutellum chiefly brownish-black, irregularly spotted with 

 paler, its median line narrowly pale but irregularly in- 

 vaded with the darker color; length, 5.5 mm. 



725. OBTECTUS. 

 qq. Scutellum chiefly pale to grayish but with a black mark each 

 side on apical half. 

 r. Corium with a longitudinal pale area which extends upon 

 base of cuneus without interruption by an oblique infus- 

 cation; radius with a black line which curves outward 

 apically to the base of cuneus; length, 6.7 mm. 



726. LACUNOSUS. 



