756 FAMILY XXIX. — MIRID.E. 



Chicago and Willow Springs, 111., June 4 — 30; at light and 

 on willow (Gerhard). Described from there by Reuter as a 

 variety of rubecula Uhl, and raised to specific rank by Knight 

 (1923, 570). Known from Illinois, Minnesota and Colorado. 

 Taken by Knight only on sand-bar willow, Salix longifolia Muhl. 



776 (1010). Lygidea rubecula (Uhler), 1895, 37. 



Dull greenish-yellow, sparsely clothed with very fine yellowish in- 

 clined hairs; head with tylus and usually a curved line each side of face, 

 dark brown; pronotum with collar ivory-white, disk greenish-yellow, 

 more or less tinged with reddish-brown, the basal fourth often with a 

 narrow fuscous cross-bar, this projected forward over the basal angles 

 and edged behind with paler; scutellum either yellow with sides narrowly 

 darker or pale brown with median line and base yellow; elytra with 

 clavus and inner half of corium fuscous-brown; outer half of corium 

 and cuneus in great part yellow; membrane with cells dusky, paler to- 

 ward apex, the veins yellowish; legs and under surface greenish-yellow. 

 Length, 6 — 6.5 mm. 



Highlands, N. Car., July 6 (Brimley) . Described from Colo- 

 rado and northern Illinois and recorded from various localities 

 from Ontario and New England west to the Pacific, but part 

 of the records undoubtedly refer to rosacea, obscura and other 

 species. 



777 ( — ). Lygidea viburni Knight, 1923, 569. 



Brownish-yellow, clothed with suberect yellowish pubescence; pro- 

 notum with calli, basal margin each side of median line and sometimes 

 a ray each side of disk behind calli, dark brown to blackish; scutellum 

 yellowish-brown, darker each side of median line; membrane fuscous- 

 brown, veins and spots near apex of cuneus, paler; legs yellowish, apical 

 third of femora often reddish-brown; ventrals pale yellowish, upper half 

 of sides and genital region brownish-black. Antenna? brownish-black 

 basally, fuscous apically, about two-thirds the length of body, joint 1 

 two-thirds as long as width of vertex ; 2 three times as long as 1 ; 4 less 

 than half the length of 3, male, three-fifths the length of 3, female. 

 Length, 7 mm. 



Batavia, N. Y., June 24 (Minn. Univ. Coll.). Recorded only 

 from Batavia, where it breeds on the nanny-berry, Viburnum 

 lentago L. 



778 (1010c). Lygidea obscura Reuter, 1909, 46. 



Ground color of male dark fuscous to black, of female yellowish to 

 brownish, darkened with fuscous; male with median line on front, cheeks, 

 median line and narrow basal margin of pronotum, side margins and 

 median line of apical half of scutellum, dull yellow; cuneus pale trans- 

 lucent, inner half reddish, apex darker; membrane blackish, veins and 

 spot near tip of cuneus paler; legs blackish, the coxae, basal half of 



