738 FAMILY XXIX. — MIRIDiE. 



turn coarsely transversely wrinkled, scutellum more finely so; calli 

 smooth, united at middle, each with a distinct concavity. Elytra sur- 

 passing abdomen by more than half the length of membrane. Female — 

 More robust, suboval, widest across base of cuneus. Dull brownish-yel- 

 low with dark markings vague, sometimes only the clavus and apical half 

 of corium tinged with brownish. Joint 2 of antennae more slender and 

 one-third longer than in male. Beak reaching behind middle coxae. 

 Elytra sometimes abbreviated and reaching only tip of abdomen. Length, 

 5.4 — 6.2 mm. 



Champaign, 111., June 14, at light; New Mexico (///. Nat. Hist. 

 Surv. Coll.). A palaearctic European species ranging in this 

 country from Quebec and New England west to Colorado, 

 North Dakota and British Columbia, and in the southwest 

 known from Utah and New Mexico. Breeds on the bedstraw, 

 Galium boreali L. 



751 ( — ). Polymerus nubilipes Knight, 1925, 248. 



Black, feebly shining; above clothed with silvery-gray to yellowish- 

 brown pubescence, intermixed with scattered suberect fuscous hairs; 

 legs orange-yellow, apical half of femora and basal half of tibiae heavily 

 tinged with fuscous, the former with an incomplete subapical pale ring; 

 tips of tibiae and last tarsal joint, blackish. Antennae black, brownish 

 apically, joint 1 as long as width of vertex, 2 equal in length to width of 

 base of pronotum, two and one-fourth times longer than 3; 4 one-eighth 

 longer than 3. Beak reaching middle of sternum. Length, 4.7 mm. 



Recorded only from Greenwood, Wis., and Minnesota. 



752 ( — ). Polymerus punctipes Knight, 1923, 602. 



Oblong-oval. Black, scabrous, subopaque, sparsely clothed with fine 

 silky prostrate silvery gray pubescence; head with a small round yellow 

 spot each side of vertex; narrow outer edge of embolium and cuneus pale 

 yellow; membrane fuscous, its veins pale. Joint 1 of antennae half the 

 length of pronotum, black with base yellow; 2 fuscous, nearly as thick as 

 and three and three-fifth times the length of 1 ; 3 yellowish tinged with 

 dusky, one-third the length of 2; 4 fuscous, one-fifth longer than 3. 

 Length, 4.6 — 5.4 mm. 



Starke and Marshall counties, Ind., June 11 — 18. Swept in 

 some numbers from herbage along the borders of lakes. Swan- 

 nanoa, N. Car., June 23 (Brimley). Ranges from Quebec and 

 New England west to Minnesota and south to Jacksonville, 

 Fla. Knight swept it "from scattering plants of whorled loose- 

 strife, Lysimachia quadrifolia L., which were growing along an 

 old clay roadway." 



753 (— ). Polymerus fulvipes Knight, 1923, 603. 



Elongate, suboval. Black, feebly shining, clothed with silken yellow 

 pubescence; embolium, cuneus and legs as in key; membrane dark fus- 



