SUBFAMILY II. — CAPSIISLE. 719 



Pronotum two-thirds wider at base than long at middle, its basal half 

 somewhat flaring. Length, 6 mm. 



Dunedin, Fla., March 17. One male beaten from wax-myrtle, 

 Myrica cerifera L. 



713 ( — ). Phytocoris onustus Van Duzee, 1920, 344. 



Elongate, subparallel. Head dull yellow, cheeks, tip of tylus and 

 six oblique lines each side of front, fuscous ; pronotum with sides and 

 basal third broadly blackish, the latter area interrupted at middle, hind 

 margin whitish, in female preceded by a transverse row of six black 

 spots ; scutellum pale with stripe each side and basal angles blackish ; 

 elytra fuscous, vaguely irrorate with pale, the corium with polished 

 paler areas at base, middle and near apex; cuneus fuscous; membrane 

 pale fuscous, a pale spot near tip of cuneus and two vague ones on disk, 

 veins fuscous; hind femora as in key; tibiae fuscous with three or four 

 pale rings. Antennae fuscous, joint 1 flecked with paler, as long as pro- 

 notum and half of head; 2 paler at base, two and one-half times longer 

 than 1; 3 with base and extreme tip pale, 3 and 4 united equal to 2; 3 

 longer than 1, 4 shorter. Beak passing hind coxae. Male genitalia as in 

 fig. 9. Length, 7 — 7.4 mm. 



Ranges from New England west to New York. Occurs on 

 bark of hickory in moist shaded localities. 



714 ( — ) . Phytocoris neglectus Knight, 1920, 54. 



Elongate, subparallel. Head dull yellow, vertex with reddish mark- 

 ings; apex of tylus and two or three short bars on cheeks and lorae fus- 

 cous-brown; pronotum dull yellow tinged with reddish, sparsely clothed 

 with sub-erect fuscous hairs, hind margin pale yellow, this hue bordered 

 in front by a transverse row of six or eight small oblong fuscous-brown 

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

 fuscous-brown with scattered vague paler areas, embolium pale yellow 

 with a few small dark spots, apical third of corium with an oblique fus- 

 cous bar as in c of key; membrane fuscous with paler areas near middle; 

 legs straw-yellow, apical halves of femora flecked with fuscous, tibiae 

 thrice annulate with fuscous-brown ; under surface pale yellow along 

 median line, the sides with a wide dark brown unbroken stripe extend- 

 ing from behind eye to tip of abdomen. Joint 1 of antennae pale yellow 

 with numerous fuscous marks, subequal in length to width of pronotum 

 at base; 2 and 3 uniformly blackish-fuscous, each narrowly pale at base; 

 2 more slender and two and a third times longer than 1, 3 one-half as 

 long as 2, one-third longer than 4. Beak reaching third ventral. Male 

 genitalia as in fig. 3. Length, 6.2 — 6.5 mm. 



Woods Hole and Pigeon Cove, Mass., July 15 — 30 (Olsen). 

 Ranges from New England west to Michigan and South Da- 

 kota. Occurs on the bark of apple and other trees where it is 

 probably predaceous on the larvse of various insects. Beaten 

 from hazel by Hussey. 



