SUBFAMILY II. — CAPSIN^E. 717 



rr. Corium distinctly darkened with fuscous on apical half, 

 scarcely showing paler by contrast with dark marks along 

 radius; length, 6 mm. 727. cortitectus. 



708 (929). Phytocoris bipunctatus Van Duzee, 1910, 77. 



Elongate, very slender, subparallel. Head fuscous-brown with a 

 reddish tinge, the tylus paler; pronotum with apical half reddish-brown, 

 basal half fuscous-brown, its extreme hind margin with a sinuate white 

 line interrupted by small tufts of short black hairs; scutellum reddish- 

 brown, vaguely flecked with yellow; elytra fuscous-brown, the costal 

 margin with small alternate gray and fuscous spots; corium with pale 

 spot near apex; membrane uniformly dusky, feebly iridescent; femora 

 fuscous-brown, reddish-yellow at base, front tibiae reddish-brown, with 

 three conspicuous pale yellow rings; ventrals fuscous, pro- and meso- 

 sterna dull yellow with a reddish tinge. Antenna? longer than body, 

 joint 1 dark brown with two or three yellow spots, slightly shorter than 

 basal width of pronotum; 2 dark brown with two pale rings, twice the 

 length of 1 ; 3 two-thirds the length of 2, pale, with brown pale ring at 

 base and another near middle; 4 very slender, fuscous, slightly shorter 

 than 1. Length, 4.2 — 4.7 mm. 



Dunedin and Kissimmee, Fla., Dec. 19 — April 1. Taken in 

 spring by sweeping grasses and herbage in pine woods and 

 along margins of ponds ; hibernates in winter beneath boards 

 and other cover near ponds. Described from Florida and, ac- 

 cording to Van Duzee : "Common on the dry sparse grasses 

 in the pine barrens everywhere south of Sanford." 



709 (930). Phytocoris annulicornis (Reuter), 1876, 70. 



Form and size of bipunctatus. Reddish-brown tinged with fuscous; 

 joints 1 and 2 of antennae reddish-fuscous, 1 with numerous pale spots, 

 2 with two pale rings ; 3 and 4 testaceous, 3 with two paler rings ; under 

 surface fuscous, sterna and legs reddish-brown, the femora fuscous to- 

 wards apex ; tibiae with three fuscous rings, those on hind tibiae more or 

 less confluent. Length, 5 mm. 



Described from Texas. Recorded by Parshley from Maine 

 and Massachusetts, and by others from Pennsylvania, Ohio, 

 Colorado and California. Knight (Ms.) considers bipunctatus a 

 synonym of annulicornis, but neither Reuter nor Distant in their 

 descriptions of annulicornis mention the prominent pale spot on 

 corium, distinctive of bipunctatus. 



710 ( — ). Phytocoris nigriccllis Knight, 1923, 636. 



Male — Elongate, subparallel. Head dull yellow; apical half of 

 tylus, lorae except tips, bucculas and mark behind eye blackish; color of 

 pronotum and scutellum as in key, both they and elytra clothed with 



