718 FAMILY XXIX. — MIRIDyE. 



black hairs intermixed with tufts of silky yellowish pubescence; clavus 

 yellowish, fuscous at middle; corium black, the base, spot at middle and 

 another near base of cuneus, pale; embolium black with spots near base 

 and middle, pale; cuneus yellowish, apex and inner margin black; mem- 

 brane blackish, a small spot near tip of cuneus and another at apex of 

 larger cell, white; femora black flecked with yellowish, their bases pale; 

 front and middle tibiae pale, annulate with black, hind ones black with 

 broad pale ring on basal third ; venti*als deep black, the basal ones yel- 

 lowish at middle. Joint 1 of antennae dull yellow, above black with yel- 

 low spots, as long as pronotum; 2 and 3 black with pale ring at base, 2 

 two and three-fifth times as long as 1, nearly twice the length of 3; 4 

 black, one-fifth shorter than 3. Beak reaching fifth ventral. Female — 

 With costal margins more curved, elytra more broadly pale; antennal 

 joints relatively longer. Length, 5 — 5.2 mm. 



Recorded only from New Hampshire and North Carolina, but 

 probably has a much wider range. 



711 ( — ). Phytocoris husseyi Knight, 1923, 639. 



Elongate, subparallel. Head yellowish with reddish to black marks 

 on front, tylus and lorae; pronotum and scutellum yellowish marked 

 with darker as in key; clavus blackish with paler brown or fuscous 

 spots; corium with apical third fuscous, black spot opposite base of mem- 

 brane and a pale one that of cuneus, both corium and clavus clothed 

 with short erect black hairs intermixed with tufts of whitish silken to- 

 mentose pubescence; membrane fuscous, darker at base; hind femora 

 with a narrow subapical pale ring. Joint 1 of antennae black, flecked 

 above with large and small whitish spots, about one-fifth longer than 

 width of head across eyes, 2 and 3 black, pale at base, 2 twice as long as 

 1, two-thirds longer than 3; 4 black, as long as 1. Beak reaching fourth 

 ventral. Length, 5.1 mm. 



Known only from Mercer County, Ohio. 



712 ( — ). Phytocoris albitylus Knight Ms. 



Elongate, subparallel. Head dull whitish-yellow; lorae and a few 

 vague marks on vertex fuscous; pronotum dull yellow, an impressed dot 

 behind each callus and a narrow pi'ebasal zigzag line fuscous-brown, 

 basal margin narrowly whitish, propleurae and middle of mesoscutum 

 dull black; scutellum dull yellow with fuscous marks as in e of key; 

 elytra dull yellow, clavus, claval suture and inner margin of corium in 

 great part fuscous-brown; apex of corium with an oblique dark bar as 

 in c of key; embolium fuscous, flecked with scattered pale dots; cuneus 

 dull yellow, the tip and some small spots along inner margin fuscous; 

 membrane fuscous-hyaline marbled with paler, the large cell with a few 

 small fuscous dots; femora as in gg of key; tibiae and tarsi fuscous, the 

 former with two broad pale rings; under surface dull black, sterna straw- 

 yellow. Joint 1 of antenna? blackish, with numerous large white dots, as 

 long as pronotum; 2 and 3 blackish-brown, each narrowly pale at base, 

 2 twice as long as 1, 3 two-fifths the length of 2, 4 missing. Eyes of 

 male very large, the interocular area only one-half their long diameter. 



