SUBFAMILY II. — CAPSIN^. 753 



vertex foveate; beak reaching hind coxae; pronotum trapezoi- 

 dal, one-half wider at base than long, sides straight, not cari- 

 nate, disk, except calli, thickly and coarsely punctate ; scutellum 

 triangular, almost flat, equilateral; elytra entire, surpassing 

 abdomen, clavus, cuneus and membrane deflexed ; hind tarsi 

 with joints 1 and 2 subequal, 3 almost as long as both united. 

 One species occurs in North America and our territory. 



772 (1008). Capsus ater (Linnaeus), 1758, 447. 



Oblong-oval. Male black or piceous-black, shining, sparsely clothed 

 with fine prostrate grayish hairs; membrane brownish-translucent. An- 

 tennae much shorter than body, joints 1 and 2 black, 3 and 4 fuscous, 3 

 pale at base; 1 as long as head; 2 strongly clavate, thickly pilose, three 

 times as long as 1 ; 3 and 4 very slender, subequal, united one-fourth 

 shorter than 2. Female often with head and pronotum reddish- or 

 orange-yellow, var. semiflavus (Linn.). Length, 5.5 — 6 mm. 



Marshall, Steuben and Marion counties Ind., June 11 — 18. 

 Dunedin, Fla., Feb. 27 (JV.S.B.). Palos Park, 111., June 22 

 (Gerhard). Natick, Mass., May 11 (Frost). The specimens at 

 hand are mostly the var. tyrannus Fabr., in which the legs are 

 reddish yellow, the femora with two subapical dark brown 

 rings and tips of tibiae fuscous. Those from Indiana were 

 swept from herbage in tamarack swamps or dense woodland. 

 It is an introduced European species, its present known range 

 in this country extending from Ontario and New England west 

 to South Dakota and Edmonton, Alberta, and south to Florida, 

 though Uhler (1878, 411) states that "it is found from the ex- 

 treme north of British America to the southern parts of the 

 United States." Knight states that the food plants are wire 

 grass, Poa comprcssa L., couch grass, Agropyron re pens (L.) and 

 probably other grasses. Hussey recorded it as common in the 

 hay fields and meadows of Berrien Co., Mich., during the 

 early summer. Not before definitely recorded south of New 

 Jersey. 



XV. Neocapsus Distant, 1884, 277. 



Oblong-oval, shining species closely allied to Horcias, but hav- 

 ing the pronotum and corium coarsely punctate ; beak reach- 

 ing hind coxae; second joint of antennae twice as long as first, 

 but not strongly swollen or pilose ; pronotum with humeral 

 angles obliquely rounded, the hind margin twice as wide as 

 apex ; tibiae strongly setose. A variety of one of the two known 

 species occurs in our territory. 



