736 FAMILY XXIX. — MIRID^. 



of October, and it lives upon violets, weeds and herbs in low- 

 grounds." 



745 ( — ). Polymerus nigropallidus Knight, 1923, 599. 



Head black, with median line, lorae and spot next to eye on vertex, 

 dull yellow; pronotum black, the collar, front margins of calli, line be- 

 tween them, dot on disk and basal margin, yellowish; scutellum dull yel- 

 low, the basal angles and mesoscutum blackish; elytra dull yellow, clavus 

 with inner half and corium with outer margin and stripe on outer portion 

 of apical half blackish; membrane dark fuscous, veins paler; legs tawny- 

 yellow, spines of tibiae and last tarsal segment blackish; ventrals yellow 

 with paler pubescence. Antennae black, joint 1 two-fifths as long as 

 width of head across eyes; 2 four times the length of 1, two and one- 

 fifth times as long as 3. Length, 4.3 — 4.5 mm. 



Described from Brown's MilLs Junction, N. J., and known 

 only from there. 



746 ( — ). Polymerus tinctipes Knight, 1923, 600. 



Color as in key, clothed above with silken white pubescence ; mem- 

 brane fuscous-brown; narrow apex of cuneus and embolium pale; fem- 

 ora with basal halves yellowish, their lower face with numerous erect 

 hairs, each hair with a fuscous dot at base; ventrals black with paler 

 pubescence. Antennae black, brownish apically, joint 1 three-fourths a? 

 long as width of vertex, 2 as long as width of pronotum at base; 3 one- 

 half the length of 2, one-third longer than 4. Beak reaching hind mar- 

 gins of hind coxae. Length. 3.7 — 4.2 mm. 



Recorded only from Great Falls, Md., where it was collected 

 on a lichen covered rock. 



747 ( — ). Polymerus cuneatus (Distant), 1893, 435. 



General color above fuscous-black, head with tylus shining black, 

 cheeks, lorae, a spot on middle of vertex and another near each eye, dull 

 yellow; color of pronotum as in key; tip of scutellum yellowish; outer 

 half of clavus and basal fourth of corium usually more or less dull 

 yellow; embolium, anal ridge, outer apical angle of corium and tip of 

 cuneus also yellowish; membrane a uniform translucent fuscous, feebly 

 iridescent, veins yellow; legs dull greenish-yellow, hind femora with two 

 rows of small vague brownish dots on outer face and usually a brownish 

 ring near apex, sometimes in great part fuscous-brown, tips of tarsi 

 and beak fuscous; under surface dull yellow, the pleura and side mar- 

 gins of ventrals more or less fuscous. Joint 1 of antennae yellow, fus- 

 cous near base and apex, three-fourths as long as basal width of ver- 

 tex; 2 yellow, the apical fourth black, three and a half times longer than 

 1; 3 fuscous, yellow at base, one-third longer than 4, the two united two- 

 thirds the length of 2. Disk of pronotum very finely rugose, with minute 

 punctures between the rugae. Scutellum finely transversely rugose. 

 Clavus and corium very finely punctate. Beak reaching hind coxae. 

 Length, 3.5 — 3.8 mm. 



