SUBFAMILY II. — CAPSIN^E. 



745 



than 1, its base and apical third blackish, remainder reddish-yellow; 3 

 and 4 yellowish at base, darker toward tips, united longer than 2, 

 4 two-fifths the length of 3. Pronotum and elytra rather thickly 



clothed with prostrate yellow pu- 

 bescence. Length, 7 — 8 mm. (Fig. 

 170). 



Common throughout Indi- 

 ana, June 5 — Oct. 16. Occurs 

 in summer on foliage and flow- 

 ers of various plants, especial- 

 ly those of moist localities ; in 

 autumn in numbers on flowers 

 of ironweed, goldenrod and 

 other Composite. Breeds on 

 Rumcx crispus L. and other 

 species of dock. Ranges from 

 Quebec and New England to 

 the Pacific, and southwest to 

 Texas and New Mexico, but in 

 the east not definitely re- 

 corded south of New Jersey, 

 though specimens are at hand 

 from Agricultural College, 

 Miss. The older records are 

 Fig. 170, : (After Forbes). mainly under the generic 



name Calocoris. Known economically as the "cotton leaf-bug" 



and said to do much damage to cotton in Texas. 



766 (967). Adelphocoris superbus (Uhler), 1875, 838. 



Elongate, subparallel. Upper surface dull red to scarlet, thinly 

 clothed with fine yellowish hairs; clavus, inner apical two-thirds of 

 corium and often the entire scutellum fuscous-black; cuneus usually 

 wholly red. Membrane dark brown, dusky-translucent toward apex; legs 

 dark brown to black, the coxae and basal halves of hind femora paler; 

 spines and tips of tibia? fuscous. Joints 1 and 2 of antennae dark brown 

 to black, 3 and 4 reddish-brown, the base of 3 yellow. Basal two-thirds 

 of pronotum finely but distinctly transversely rugose. Length, 7.5 — 8 mm. 



Golden, Colo., and Ormsby Co., Nev., July (Gerhard). Re- 

 corded from Iowa and North and South Dakota, and therefore 

 probably occurs in western Wisconsin and Illinois. Its recorded 

 range extends from the Mississippi west to the Pacific. Hussey 

 (1922a, 14) states that in his opinion it will prove to be but a 

 western form of rapidus. One of the specimens at hand bears 



