SUBFAMILY II. — CAPSINiE. 755 



XVII. Lygidea Reuter, 1875a, 547. 



Elongate or oblong, finely pubescent species having the head 

 about as wide as long, porrect, its front vertical ; beak reaching 

 or passing the middle coxae; antenna? stout, shorter than body, 

 thickly pilose, joint 1 longer than head, 2 about three times 

 as long as 1, 3 nearly half the length of 2, 4 usually more than 

 half as long as 3 ; pronotum subtrapezoidal, its width of base 

 slightly less than twice its greatest length, sides feebly sinu- 

 ate, disk except calli and collar rather coarsely punctate ; scu- 

 tellum flat, mesoscutum but slightly exposed ; elytra oblong- 

 subparallel, entire, nearly flat, cuneus but slightly deflexed ; 

 joints 1 and 2 of hind tarsi subequal. Five of the seven known 

 North American species occur in the eastern states. 



KEY TO EASTERN SPECIES OF LYGIDEA. 



a. Beak scarcely reaching hind margins of middle coxae. 

 b. Length of first antennal not or but slightly greater than width of 

 vertex; pubescence of elytra dense and closely appressed; cuneus 

 chiefly red, upper surface of female usually in great part red. 



775. ROSACEA. 



bb. Length of first antennal two-fifths greater than width of vertex; 



pubescence of elytra less dense, chiefly suberect; cuneus mostly 



pale, red only along inner margin and apex. 



c. Basal half of pronotum rugose with fine punctures between the 



ruga? ; antenna? dark brown ; beak reaching behind the middle 



coxa?. 776. rubecula. 



cc. Basal half of pronotum coarsely punctate; antenna? in great part 



black; beak not reaching hind margins of middle coxa?. 



777. VIBURNI. 

 aa. Beak reaching between hind coxa?. 



d. Color chiefly fuscous-brown to blackish, ground color pale to green- 

 ish, never reddish. 778. obscura. 

 del. Color orange-red, clavus, inner half of corium and usually the 

 basal margin of pronotum more or less fuscous to blackish. 



779. MENDAX. 



775 (1010b). Lygidea rosacea Reuter, 1909, 46. 



Greenish-yellow, usually heavily tinged with reddish, the elytra 

 thickly pubescent with prostrate yellowish hairs; head with oblique red 

 lines each side of front; pronotum dull red, the collar and an oblong 

 median spot yellowish; scutellum red, a narrow median line and apex 

 yellow; elytra with clavus and apical half of corium in great part red- 

 dish-fuscous, embolium and basal half and narrow costal margin of both 

 corium and cuneus yellow; membrane dusky, its veins paler; legs green- 

 ish-yellow, the femora more or less reddish; joints 1 and 2 of antenna? 

 reddish-yellow, the apex of 2 and all of 3 and 4 fuscous. Basal half of 

 pronotum sparsely, coarsely, shallowly and unevenly punctate. Length, 

 6.5 — 6.7 mm. 



