720 FAMILY XXIX. — MIRID^E. 



715 ( — ). Phytocoris spicatus Knight, 1920, 55. 



Elongate, subparallel. Head and middle of apical half of pronotum 

 greenish-white, the former with vague narrow transverse fuscous or 

 reddish lines between the eyes and two broader zigzag ones on front. Re- 

 mainder of pronotum, clavus and corium dull fuscous-black with vague 

 paler markings; scutellum greenish-yellow with an oblique black line 

 each side of apical half; embolium dull yellow with black spots; cuneus 

 with basal half greenish-yellow, apical half fuscous; femora greenish- 

 yellow, their apical halves with black spots, hind ones with preapical 

 pale ring; tibia? annulate with fuscous and dull white; under surface 

 greenish-white with a broad blackish stripe along each side. Joint 1 

 of antennae blackish with white spots, three-fourths as long as head and 

 pronotum united ; 2 and 3 fuscous-brown, both narrowly pale at base, 

 2 two and one-half times as long as 1 ; 3 two-fifths the length of 2 ; 4 

 dusky, two-thirds as long as 3. Male genitalia as in fig. 10. Length, 

 6 — 6.8 mm. 



Norman Co., Minn., June 25 (Minn. Univ. Coll.). Recorded 

 from New England and New York. 



716 (934). Phytocoris eximius Reuter, 1876, 67. 



Elongate, suboval. Dull greenish-yellow with numerous fuscous and 

 reddish marks, thinly clothed with suberect pale or fuscous hairs and 

 prostrate yellowish ones ; head marked with numerous oblique blackish- 

 lines and reddish dots; pronotum with middle of front lobe greenish-yel- 

 low marked with reddish, remainder of disk clouded with fuscous and 

 with an undulate or interrupted fuscous line across basal fifth, this 

 edged behind with paler; scutellum greenish-yellow, the extreme base 

 and a short oblique spot each side near apex, fuscous; elytra with 

 numerous small fuscous spots, the corium with a conspicuous oblique 

 blackish bar across its apical fourth; tip of cuneus and cells of mem- 

 brane fuscous; femora and second antennal colored as in key; tibia? an- 

 nulate with brown and yellow; under surface greenish-yellow with a 

 broad black stripe on sides; genital area fuscous. Joint 1 of antenna? 

 reddish-brown with paler dots, about one-third longer than pronotum; 2 

 more than twice as long as 1, 3 three-fifths the length of 2, slightly 

 more than one-fourth longer than 4. Beak reaching fourth ventral. Male 

 genitalia as in fig. 1. Length, 5.8 — 6.2 mm. 



Marion Co., Ind., June 26— Sept. 2 (W.S.B.). Hessville, 

 Lake Co., Ind., July 1 ; S. Maywood, 111., Aug. 3 (Gerhard) . Ra- 

 leigh, N. Car., Sept. 27 (Brimley). Ranges from Quebec and 

 New England west to the Pacific and southwest to Florida, 

 Texas, Mexico and the West Indies. Recorded from Crescent 

 City and Jacksonville, Fla. Variable to some extent in depth 

 of color, according to habitat and maturity. Occurs mainly 

 on grasses in waste places ; also on foliage of ash and hickory, 

 and said to be in part predaceous. 



