726 FAMILY XXIX. — mirid;e. 



tinctly so; ventrals dull yellow with brownish or reddish spots on sides. 

 Joint 1 of antennae slightly longer than width of head, 2 more than twice 

 as long as 1, 3 slightly more than one-half the length of 2, one-fourth 

 longer than 4. Beak reaching sixth ventral. Male genitalia as in fig. 24. 

 Length, 4.5 — 4.7 mm. 



Ormond and Dunedin, Fla., Dec. 19— April 26 (W.S.B.). 

 Long Island, N. Y., Aug. 17 (Davis). Taken at Dunedin in 

 December from beneath boards on margin of pond; in spring 

 by beating foliage of oak and bunches of Spanish moss hang- 

 ing thereto. Recorded heretofore only from Massachusetts, 

 New York and Maryland. Knight states that in the North it 

 breeds on bur oak, Quercus macrocarpa Michx. The black spots 

 on basal submargin of pronotum are formed by the interrup- 

 tion of the dark submarginal line as noted in P. tuberculatus 

 Knight and other species of the genus, are variable in number 

 and sometimes subobsolete. The membrane in northern speci- 

 mens is often flecked with pale spots as plainly as in some of 

 the species of Group I. 



729 (951a). Phytocoris confluens Reuter, 1909, 20. 



Elongate-oblong. Head chiefly red, the tylus yellow; pronotum red, 

 darker on calli and basal half, the middle of disk with some vague yel- 

 lowish spots; scutellum red, basal angles and apex pale; elytra, includ- 

 ing cuneus, dull red, distinctly mottled with yellow spots, corium often 

 with a large pale spot at apex; membrane dusky with red veins; an- 

 tenna?, front and middle legs and hind tibiae pale yellow; hind femora red, 

 paler at base usually rather thickly flecked with pale spots ; ventrals 

 yellow, more or less spotted with brown. Joint 1 of antennae three- 

 tenths longer than pronotum, 2 two and a half times longer than 1, 3 

 five-eighths the length of 2, one-third longer than 4. Beak reaching sixth 

 ventral. Length, 4.6 — 5 mm. 



Staten Island, N. Y., July 24 (Davis). Recorded from Con- 

 necticut and District of Columbia. Placed by Reuter as a vari- 

 ety of puella but apparently distinct. 



730 ( — ). Phytocoris luteolus Knight, 1923, 649. 



Elongate, subparallel. Head yellow with orange to bright red mark- 

 ings on tylus, cheeks and lorae; pronotum, scutellum and elytra with 

 color as in key and clothed with pale yellowish pubescence; calli and 

 propleura whitish; basal third of corium and embolium and outer half of 

 clavus with orange-red spots ; apex of clavus and inner margins of 

 cuneus with bright red spots; membrane pale fuscous, apical half with 

 fuscous spots, veins yellowish; front and middle femora yellowish, paler 

 at base, hind ones with apical half or more dark reddish flecked with 

 yellowish spots ; tibiae pale, reddish near base. Antennae yellowish, joint 



