SUBFAMILY II. — CAPSUSLE. 729 



East River, Conn., July — August {Walden). Recorded only 

 from that State, New York and District of Columbia. 



736 ( — ). Phytocoris depictus Knight, 1923, 654. 



Elongate, subparallel. Head yellow marked with orange-red; pro- 

 notum pale brownish-yellow tinged with dusky, calli pale, disk behind 

 them with four orange stripes; scutellum yellowish with an oblique 

 orange stripe each side; elytra as in key; extreme tip of clavus and a 

 small spot near inner basal angle of cuneus, black, beset with prominent 

 black hairs; membrane pale fuscous, cells and central area with hyaline 

 spots, veins pale fuscous; hind femora as in key; spines on hind tibiae 

 pale with reddish spots at base; ventrals pale yellow, sides dotted with 

 red. Antenna? yellowish, joint 1 with a few reddish dots, tapering from 

 base to near apex, slightly longer than width of head across eyes ; 2 two 

 and two-fifth times longer than 1, 3 and 4 subequal, united almost twice 

 as long as 2. Beak reaching fifth ventral. Upper surface rather thickly 

 clothed with prostrate yellow pubescence. Length, 4.1 — 5.3 mm. 



St. Anthony Park, Minn., Aug. 11 {Minn. Univ. Coll.). Known 

 only from Batavia, N. Y., and Minnesota. Occurs on ash and 

 bur oak. 



737 (951). Phytocoris puella Reuter, 1876, 69. 



Male — Elongate, slender, subparallel. General color above dark red 

 with yellow markings ; vertex reddish-yellow, front dark orange-red ; pro- 

 notum with collar and four narrow entire stripes behind calli orange- 

 red, calli and basal angles yellow; scutellum yellow with an oblique red- 

 dish spot each side of middle; clavus, except base, and inner half of 

 corium, fuscous-red, corium elsewhere paler; cuneus dark red flecked 

 with yellow; membrane fuscous, the veins red; legs pale yellow, apical 

 half of femora and base of tibiae with orange-red markings; under sur- 

 face in great part pale, the sixth ventral and genital fuscous. Joint 1 

 of antennae pale yellow with reddish markings, one and two-third times 

 the length of pronotum ; 2 — 4 pale yellow, 2 two and one-fifth times 

 longer than 1, 3 one-fifth longer than 4, the latter subequal in length to 

 1. Eyes very large, their diameter greater than interocular width. 

 Female — Usually pale greenish-yellow; orange stripes on pronotum often 

 interrupted; scutellum pale yellow; elytra everywhere reticulate with 

 orange-red; ventrals, tarsi and apical halves of tibiae often in great 

 part fuscous. Length, 4.5 — 5.2 mm. 



Lake, Knox and Posey counties, Ind., Aug. 14 — Sept. 22. 

 Beverly Hills, 111., Aug. 31, at light (Gerhard). Yaphank, Long 

 Island, N. Y. (Davis). Swannanoa, N. Car., July (Brimley). 

 My Indiana specimens were swept from weeds along the mar- 

 gins of orchards and roadsides. Its known range extends 

 from Quebec and New England west to Illinois and Kansas and 

 southwest to North Carolina. Van Duzee (1917, 318) includes 

 Florida but there is no definite station record from that State. 



