722 FAMILY XXIX. — MIRID^E. 



posterior femora with smaller irrorations, not distinctly banded with 

 pale; genital claspers and flagellum of male as in fig. 2. Length, 5.8 

 mm." (Knight). 



Known only from Batavia, N. Y., where it was taken in July 

 and August on the bark of trees in shaded situations. 



721 ( — ). Phytocoris penipectus Knight, 1920, 58. 



Head, front half of pronotum, scutellum and basal half of corium 

 brownish-yellow with fuscous markings; basal half of pronotum tinged 

 with olive-green and with a narrow zigzag fuscous cross-bar in front 

 of the yellowish hind margin; clavus and apical half of corium olive- 

 green mottled with fuscous; tips of embolium and cuneus fuscous; mem- 

 brane fuscous, the middle and a spot near tip of cuneus greenish-hyaline, 

 veins yellowish; legs greenish-yellow with fuscous markings as in ex- 

 imius. Antenna? with relative length of joints as in eximius; joint 2 

 fuscous-brown with a pale ring at base. Male genitalia as in fig. 12. 

 Length, 5.1 — 5.3 mm. 



New Canaan, Conn., Sept. 14 (Walden). Recorded only from 

 that State and Massachusetts. 



722 ( — ). Phytocoris pectinatus Knight, 1920, 58. 



"Very similar to eximius, colored more as in penipectus but more 

 strongly invaded with green on the corium, clavus and scutellum; second 

 antennal black except at base. Genital claspers and flagellum of male 

 as in fig. 18. Length, 4.8 mm." (Knight). 



Known only from Florida, where it has been taken at Gaines- 

 ville, May 9, and Silver Springs, Sept. 25. 



723 ( — ). Phytocoris salicis Knight, 1920, 56. 



Elongate, suboval. General color dull brownish-yellow, rather 

 thickly clothed with appressed yellowish hairs, with scattered darker 

 ones intermixed; head with numerous reddish markings, those on sides 

 of front forming oblique transverse lines; pronotum dull yellow, apical 

 third with reddish markings, extreme basal edge pale yellow, preceded 

 by a transverse row of small vague fuscous spots ; scutellum often with 

 a narrow median pale stripe; elytra with scattered small vague fus- 

 cous markings; embolium indistinctly alternated with dull yellow and 

 fuscous; cuneus with outer basal angle yellowish, apical half with fus- 

 cous or reddish markings; membrane pale fuscous marbled with whit- 

 ish; legs straw-yellow, front and middle femora thickly flecked with red- 

 dish-brown, hind ones with fuscous-brown; tibiae with three brown rings, 

 the basal ones often broken into spots; under surface dull greenish- 

 yellow, the sides of pleura and sometimes of abdomen dark brown. Joint 



1 of antennas pale yellow, thickly flecked with reddish-brown, the apical 

 fifth brown, about three-fourths as long as basal width of pronotum; 



2 and 3 pale brown, both narrowly yellowish at base, 2 darker at tip and 

 near the pale base, twice as long as 1 ; 3 two-fifths as long as 2. Beak 

 reaching third ventral. Male genitalia as in fig. 13. Length, 6.2 mm. 



