SUBFAMILY II. — CAPSIN^E. 



731 



Fig. 169. a, female; b, male, X 6 ; c, head from side. (After Howard, Insect Life). 



female with two ill-defined rounded dark spots behind the calli, the 

 stripes on elytra narrow, interrupted, limited to the claval suture and 

 inner apical fourth of corium; membrane and under surface wholly 

 greenish-yellow. Antennae about as long as body, joint 1 as long as 

 head, 2 two and a half times longer than 1, 3 one-half the length of 2, 

 nearly twice as long as 4. Length, 6.2 — 7 mm. (Fig. 169). 



Marion and Putnam counties, Ind., June 1 — July 4 ; common 

 along the borders of wet meadows and fields of oats and wheat. 

 Delaware Co., Pa., June (Gerhard). Swannanoa, N. Car., (Brim- 

 Icy). A palsearctic European species, known as the "timothy- 

 grass bug," and ranging in this country from Quebec and New 

 England west to Minnesota and the Pacific. Not before record- 

 ed south of Maryland. From the records it seems to reach 

 maturity about May 15 and almost wholly disappears by the 

 middle of July. Howard (1892, 90) mentions it as injurious 

 to timothy in Green Co., N. Y., the insect in all stages being 

 found in numbers upon the heads in early July. Knight states 

 that it "breeds on orchard grass, Dactylus glomerata L., and 

 probably to some extent on other grasses." 



VI. Creontiades Distant, 1883, 237. 



Elongate, finely pubescent, shining species having the head 

 porrect, its front declivent, vertex with a median impressed 

 line ; eyes large, oval, coarsely granulated ; beak reaching or 



