728 FAMILY XXIX. — MIRID^E. 



each, orange; scutellum as in key; elytra pale brownish-yellow, middle 

 of inner half of corium and outer half of clavus, dark brown; embolium 

 pale flecked with reddish-orange, cuneus yellowish with vague reddish 

 dots; membrane pale brown, veins darker; legs straw-yellow, hind fem- 

 ora dark brown, apical half reddish with pale spots; front and middle 

 tibiae each with two reddish-brown rings, those on middle pair often 

 vague, hind tibia? reddish near base; tarsi yellowish, dusky at tip; ven- 

 trals straw-yellow, orange-red on sides. Joint 1 of antenna? pale yellow- 

 ish, tip and two spots on front face brown, one-sixth longer than width 

 of head across eyes; 2 and 3 yellowish brown, 2 twice as long as 1. Beak 

 reaching seventh ventral. Upper surface clothed with suberect dusky 

 hairs intermixed with silky yellow pubescence. Length, 5.8 — 6.2 mm. 



Known only from New York and New Jersey. 



734 (952). Phytocoris tibialis Reuter, 1876, 68. 



Elongate, subparallel. Pale straw-yellow, sparsely and finely pubes- 

 cent; some irregular markings on face and a transverse line across 

 vertex between base of eyes, orange-red ; disk of pronotum with four 

 short broad orange-red stripes, these not reaching base and in front 

 interrupted by the calli but present, though narrower, on collar; clavus 

 fuscous-brown, its base, a spot near middle and the inner half of corium 

 paler and flecked with reddish; cuneus and membrane pale translucent 

 yellow, their veins reddish; apical halves of front and middle femora 

 and first joint of antennas annulate with red and yellow; front and 

 middle tibiae also annulate and with a reddish-fuscous line along their 

 upper surface; ventrals a uniform pale yellow. Joint 1 of antennae as 

 long as pronotum, 2 more than twice as long as 1, 3 one-third the length 

 of 2, slightly longer than 4. Length, 5 — 5.3 mm. 



Knox Co., Ind., Sept. 23 ; swept from herbage along the mar- 

 gins of the Wabash River. Ranges from Ontario and New 

 England west to Wisconsin and Iowa and southwest to Texas 

 and Nicaragua. Readily known by the pale color, red markings 

 and dark lines on second antennal and front and middle tibia?. 



735 ( — ). Phytocoris venustus Knight, 1923, 651. 



Elongate-oval. Head orange-red; spot each side of vertex and one 

 on base, two spots on median line of front and one on base of tylus, pale 

 yellow, middle of tylus red; pronotum pale with stripes as in aa of key, 

 collar and small spot before each callus orange-red ; scutellum red. basal 

 angles and median line paler; elytra as in i of key; membrane pale 

 fuscous, veins brown; legs straw-yellow, femora flecked apically with 

 red; hind tibiae with reddish spots near base; ventrals yellowish, vaguely 

 spotted with red. Antennae yellowish, joint 1 darker at apex, one-sixth 

 longer than width of head across eyes, 2 nearly twice as long as 1, 3 

 one and two-third times as long as 2, 4 one-sixth shorter than 3. Beak 

 reaching sixth ventral. Pronotum,- scutellum and clavus clothed with 

 rather prominent inclined yellowish hairs. Length, 4.5 — 4.9 mm. 



