730 FAMILY XXIX. — MIRIDjE. 



738 ( — ). Phytocoris rubellus Knight Ms. 



Close to puella. Head and pronotum pale yellow, the former with 

 vague reddish markings, the latter with four rather broad percurrent red 

 stripes; scutellum red with basal angles and tip yellow; elytra dull red, 

 thickly clothed with prostrate whitish hairs, embolium with small yellow 

 spots; cuneus red, inner basal angle darker; membrane dusky hyaline, 

 veins red; femora dull red, paler at base, hind ones with fuscous bars 

 enclosing yellow dots; tibiae reddish-yellow, tarsi darker. Joint 1 of an- 

 tenna? shorter and stouter than in puella, dark red with yellow spots; 

 2 reddish-yellow, two and one-half times as long as 1 ; 3 and 4 fuscous, 

 united equal to 2. Length, 4.8 — 5.2 mm. 



Laporte Co., Ind., Aug. 26. Ranges from Indiana west to 

 Iowa and Kansas. 



739 ( — ). Phytocoris cary,e Knight, 1923, 652. 



Elongate, sides subparallel. Head yellow with prominent pale hairs 

 and with orange spots on sides of front, behind eyes and on loras; pro- 

 notum greenish-yellow, the four orange stripes often confluent behind, 

 calli pale, collar with orange spot each side of middle; scutellum green- 

 ish-yellow, an oblique orange spot each side of middle; elytra as in key; 

 legs yellowish, apical halves of femora flecked with brown or red spots; 

 ventrals pale greenish-yellow. Antenna? yellow, joint 1 with small 

 orange spots, one-fourth longer than width of head across eyes; 2 

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

 third longer than 4. Beak reaching upon fifth ventral. Length, 5.3 mm. 



Batavia, N. Y., July 29 (Walden). Recorded only from there; 

 occurs on hickory. 



V. Stenotus Jakovlef, 1877, 288. 



Elongate, suboval, almost glabrous shining species of 

 medium size having the head porrect, not exserted, its front 

 subvertical, vertex without an impressed line ; eyes large, oval, 

 their long diameter slightly greater than width of vertex; beak 

 reaching third ventral ; pronotum subtrapezoidal, its side mar- 

 gins rounded, hind portion convex, finely rugose ; scutellum 

 largely exposed, slightly convex; elytra entire, surpassing the 

 abdomen ; hind femora reaching genital plate ; joint 1 of hind 

 tarsi twice as long as 2. One species is known. 



740 (969). Stenotus binotatus (Fabricius), 1794, 172. 



Greenish-yellow. Male with tylus and two broad divergent stripes 

 on pronotum black, the stripes extending from calli back to cover basal 

 two-thirds of clavus and inner portion of apical half or more of corium ; 

 scutellum yellow the side margins of base black; cuneus yellow; mem- 

 brane fuscous with paler veins; genital segment and a row of spots 

 along outer margins of ventrals blackish ; tarsi fuscous. Pronotum of 



