740 FAMILY XXIX. — MIRIDvE. 



usually the narrow outer edge of cuneus dull yellow; membrane black, 

 veins yellowish; legs orange to red, tibiae, tarsi and tips of femora black, 

 hind femora with a vague subapical fuscous band. Joints 1 and 2 of 

 antennae black, 1 as long as width of vertex, female, slightly longer, male; 

 2, three and four-fifth times the length of 1 ; 3 orange-yellow, fuscous 

 apically, two-fifths as long as 2; 4 fuscous, paler at base, one-third longer 

 than 3, male, one-eighth longer than 3, female. Beak scarcely reaching 

 hind margins of front coxae. Length, 4.5 — 5 mm. 



The recorded range extends from Wisconsin and Manitoba 

 west to the Dakotas. 



757 (995). Polymerus venaticus (Uhler), 1872a, 471. 



Elongate-oblong. Black, finely granulose, rather thickly clothed with 

 very fine prostrate silky silvery-gray pubescence; vertex with a small 

 yellow spot near each eye; cuneus and extreme tip of embolium reddish- 

 yellow; membrane fuscous-brown, its veins yellowish; legs in great part 

 black, in female the coxae, basal half of hind and middle femora, front 

 femora except the upper face of apical half and joints 1 and 2 of tarsi, 

 yellow; coxae usually black in male. Antennae with joints 1 and 2 black, 

 3 and 4 dull yellow; 1 as long as head, 2 three times as long as 1, 3 and 4 

 subequal, together two-thirds the length of 2. Length, 5 — 6 mm. 



Starke, Marshall, Marion and Putnam counties, Ind., June 9 

 — 18 ; probably occurs throughout the State ; swept from herb- 

 age along the margins of marshes and lakes. Swannanoa, N. 

 Car., June 22 (Brimley). The coxae of male are sometimes yel- 

 low as in female, not always black as stated by Knight, and in 

 one specimen at hand the narrow edge of embolium is wholly 

 pale as in punctipes. The general distribution is northern, ex- 

 tending from Quebec and New England to the Pacific, but it 

 is also recorded by Van Duzee (1909, 178) from Sanford, Fla., 

 under the name Polymerus americana Reut., which he regards as 

 a synonym. Under this name it is also recorded from Texas 

 and New Mexico by Uhler (1904, 357), who says: "The range 

 of this species is now seen to be from the uplands of Texas 

 and New Mexico, northwest into British Columbia and from 

 thence eastwardly to the Province of Quebec and Northern 

 Maine." Many of the early records should doubtless be re- 

 ferred to P. punctipes Knight. 



758 (— ). Polymerus opacus Knight, 1923, 604. 



Black, opaque, clothed with silvery and blackish silky pubescence; 

 membrane brownish-black, veins yellowish to dusky; legs black, coxae, 

 basal third of femora and two basal joints of tarsi, yellowish. Joints 1 

 and 2 of antennae black, 1 slightly longer than width of vertex; 2 three 



