SUBFAMILY II. — CAPSIN^E. 757 



femora and middle of tibiae paler; under surface dull yellow. Antennae 

 dark brown, joints 2 — 4 pilose, 3 two-fifths the length of 2, 4 one-half as 

 long as 3. Pronotum short and broad, hind portion coarsely punctate. 

 Female with head yellowish, the tylus and spot each side of vertex black; 

 pronotum brownish, side margins broadly and a ray behind calli black, 

 hind femora with blackish subapical band; otherwise like male. Length, 

 6 mm. 



Honeoye Falls, N. Y., June 27 (Minn. Univ. Coll.). Known only 

 from there and Lake Placid, N. Y. Occurs on black willow, 

 Salix nigra L. 



779 (1011). Lygidea mendax Reuter, 1909, 47. 



Color as in key; tylus black; scutellum either wholly orange-red or 

 with sides darker; membrane, hind tibia? and first and second antennals 

 fuscous; femora and front and middle tibiae greenish; tarsi and third and 

 fourth antennals dusky. Pronotum densely and rather finely rugose- 

 punctate. Scutellum distinctly transversely striate. Clavus rugosely 

 punctate; corium finely and closely so. Length, 6.3 — 6.5 mm. 



Knox and Daviess counties, Ind., June 19 (W.S.B.). Hen- 

 derson, Ky., June 11 (Marshall). Portage, N. Y., on Crataegus 

 (Gerhard). Yaphank, N. Y., June 26 (Davis) . Milford, Conn., 

 June 4 (Porter) . Occurs mainly on apple, quince, red haw, etc., 

 and in the eastern states proving a serious pest to apple. The 

 known range extends from New England west to Illinois and 

 Kentucky. The pronotum in the Indiana specimens is without 

 the usual blackish bar across the basal third, but this, as Reuter 

 states (non tamen semper) is not an essential character as one 

 would suppose by Knight's key (1923, 569). 



XVIII. PLATYLYGUS Van Duzee, 1915, 111. 



Oblong, shining species having the head half as wide as base 

 of pronotum, nearly horizontal, its length subequal to width 

 across eyes; vertex opaque, obliquely striate and with a short 

 median sulcus, its basal carina slightly angulate at middle; 

 pronotum transverse, moderately declivent, calli prominent, 

 contiguous; elytra entire, sides parallel or nearly so, cuneus 

 long, nearly horizontal; second joint of hind tarsi distinctly 

 shorter than first or third. "Differs from Lygidea by the longer 

 first joint of hind tarsi, more produced and subhorizontal head, 

 opaque vertex with angled basal carina, longer basal joint of 

 antennae, longer rostrum, more slender pronotal collar and 

 more irregular and distinct pronotal punctuation." (Van Duzee). 



