SUBFAMILY II. — CAPSIN.E. 739 



cous, a narrow pale spot bordering tip of cuneus, veins yellowish; tarsi 

 and tips of tibiae fuscous; ventrals black. Joint 1 of antenna? yellowish, 

 with apex and pubescence black, slightly longer than width of vertex; 2 

 black, cylindrical, slightly narrowed at base, as thick as and three and 

 one-half times longer than 1; 3 fuscous, nearly one-third the length of 2; 

 4 blackish, one-fourth longer than 3. Beak reaching middle of sternum. 

 Pronotum and scutellum minutely transversely rugose. Elytra finely 

 scabrous. Length, 4.5 — 5.1 mm. 



Ashland, Mass., June 27 (Frost). Danielson and New Haven, 

 Conn., June 14 — 21 (Walden). The recorded range extends 

 from New England west to South Dakota and south to North 

 Carolina. 



754 ( — ). Polymerus venustus Knight, 1923, 605. 



Black, opaque, minutely and sparsely pubescent, lower margin of 

 cheeks and basal joints of beak, red; membrane dark fuscous, its veins 

 paler; coxa?, basal two-thirds of femora and middle of tibiae orange-red; 

 tarsi yellow, their tips and claws fuscous. Antenna? with joint 1 stout, 

 black, four-fifths as long as greatest width of head; 2 reddish-fuscous, 

 more slender, two and a half times the length of 1 ; 3 dull yellow, one- 

 half the length of 2; 4 fuscous, subequal in length to 3. Pronotum mi- 

 nutely granulate, transversely finely strigose. Scutellum and elytra 

 scabrous. Length, 5.2 — 5.8 mm. 



Dunedin, Fla., March 14 — 29 ; swept in some numbers from 

 the flowers of American germander, Teucrium canadensis L., and 

 lizard's tail, Saururus ceriums L., growing in low moist ground. 

 Wenona, N. Car., May 25 (Brimley). Recorded by Knight from 

 Michigan, Virginia and North Carolina. Hussey reports it as : 

 "Abundant, in Berrien Co., Mich., June to September, in beds 

 of Saururus ccrnuus growing in shady glens and marshes." 



755 ( — ). Polymerus gerhardi Knight, 1923, 606. 



Black, opaque, thickly clothed with prostrate silky white pubescence; 

 vertex with a yellowish spot each side ; membrane and veins a uniform 

 dark brownish-black; antennas black, the apical joints reddish to fuscous; 

 coxae and femora deep orange-red ; tibiae, tarsi and tips of femora black. 

 Joint 1 of antennae half the length of pronotum, 2 three and one-fifth 

 times the length of 1, 3 slightly less than half the length of 2, a little 

 longer than 4. Pronotum and elytra finely, irregularly rugulose, the 

 latter with suberect simple black hairs intermixed with the pubescence. 

 Length, 6.4 mm. 



Hessville, Lake Co., Ind., July 1, type locality (Gerhard) ; col- 

 lected at light. Recorded only from there and Cotulla, Tex. 



756 ( — ). Polymerus brevirostris Knight, 1925, 246. 



Black, clothed with yellow silky pubescence intermixed with pale and 

 fuscous suberect hairs; narrow basal margin of pronotum, embolium and 



