746 FAMILY XXIX. — MIRID^E. 



out this surmise, as it has a brownish cross-bar across the base 

 of scutellum and the middle of second antennal is faintly 

 reddish. 



767 ( — ). Adelphocoris lineolatus (Goeze), 1778, 267. 



Elongate, subparallel, male, more oval, female. Grayish or greenish- 

 yellow, sparsely clothed with inclined yellow hairs ; pronotum often with 

 two blackish spots near basal margin; scutellum with a blackish line 

 each side of middle; apical half or more of inner margin of clavus, outer 

 edge of embolium and a triangular spot on apical third of corium, black- 

 ish or piceous; membrane pale hyaline, the outer margin to tip of cuneus, 

 fuscous, veins yellowish; legs pale brownish-yellow, femora flecked with 

 black spots, tibiae beset with short blackish setae, tarsi brownish-yellow, 

 claws brown. Joints 1 and 2 of antennae pale brownish-yellow, 1 thickly 

 clothed with very short inclined black hairs and with a few scattered 

 longer erect ones; 3 and 4 and apex of 2 reddish-brown. Pronotum 

 thickly and finely punctate. Scutellum finely transversely rugose. 

 Length, 7 — 8 mm. 



Chiltern Hills, England, August (British Mits. Coll.). A palse- 

 arctic European species known in this country only from Cape 

 Breton Island, Nova Scotia. Occurs abundantly in Europe on 

 Chenopodium and allied wayside weeds. 



XL Calocoris Fieber, 1858, 305. 



Pubescent species of medium size having the head porrect, 

 vertex not margined, front declivent ; eyes large, emarginate 

 each side ; joint 1 of antennae with but few minute hairs, cylin- 

 drical, slightly passing tip of tylus, not or scarcely longer than 

 head, 2 linear, three times as long as 1, 3 slightly longer than 

 4 ; beak reaching second ventral ; pronotum trapezoidal, its 

 basal margin broadly rounded ; elytra entire, longer than abdo- 

 men ; hind femora not passing tip of abdomen ; first joint of 

 hind tarsi not or but slightly longer than second. One of the 

 three known North American species occurs in the eastern 

 states. 



768 (985). Calocoris norvegicus (Gmelin), 1788, 2176. 



Elongate, subparallel, male, suboval, female. Color a uniform dull 

 greenish-yellow, thinly clothed with inclined black and yellow hairs inter- 

 mixed ; pronotum usually with a small dark spot behind each callus; 

 membrane dusky, the veins paler. Male often with a small blackish spot 

 on the apex of corium. Length, 6.5 — 7 mm. 



Staten Island, N. Y., July 17 (Davis). A palaearctic Euro- 

 pean species ranging in this country from Quebec and New 



