760 FAMILY XXIX. — MIRID^. 



(jg. Beak not surpassing hind margins of middle coxae; scutellum 

 bright yellow or greenish-yellow; length less than 4.5 mm. 



790. CAMPESTRIS. 

 //. Pronotum very finely punctate; body covering more thinly chi- 

 tinized and therefore more fragile; left clasper of male with 

 prong at middle, right clasper with an apical hook or prong, 

 this as long as or longer than thickest part of clasper (fig. 

 173, B). Subgenus Neolygus, p. 767. 



781 (1029). Lygus approximatus (Stal), 1858, 185. 



Male — Elongate, slender, sides subparallel. General color black; 

 collar and tip of scutellum white; narrow basal margin and lower mar- 

 gin of flanks of pronotum and inner basal angle of cuneus, dull yellow; 

 tips of embolium and cuneus reddish-brown ; membrane fuscous, basal 

 half of cells and a spot beyond apex of cuneus, pale, veins reddish; legs 

 yellowish to greenish, hind femora tinged with fuscous or reddish-brown; 

 ventrals black. Joints 1 and 2 of antennae greenish-yellow, 1 two-fifths 

 longer than width of vertex; 2 three and two-third times longer than 1; 

 3 and 4 fuscous, 3 one-half as long as 2; 4 two-thirds the length of 3 

 Head very long, front subvertical, basal carina of vertex prominent. 

 Pronotum shallowly, rather sparsely punctate. Basal half of scutellum 

 rather coarsely transversely rugose. Elytra minutely punctate, finely 

 scabrous. Female — More robust than male. Dark reddish to brownish; 

 tylus black; pronotum with sides and usually the basal margins fuscous 

 to blackish ; femora and ventrals dull yellow, tinged with reddish. Head 

 longer and less deflexed than in male; second antennal only three times 

 longer than first. Length, 4.8 — 5 mm. 



Whiteface Mountain, N. Y., Aug. 22 {Minn. Univ. Coll.). 

 Ranges from Nova Scotia and New England west to British 

 Columbia and Alaska. Occurs in July and August on golden- 

 rod, especially on the slopes of mountains north of latitude 44° ; 

 also on hemlock. 



782 (1037). Lygus rubicundus (Fallen), 1829, 92. 



Oblong-oval, rather robust. Dark reddish-brown, rather thickly 

 clothed with fine silvery-gray or yellowish appressed pubescence which 

 on the elytra is often condensed to form small spots; head greenish-yel- 

 low, the tylus and some streaks on vertex reddish; basal half of prono- 

 tum usually blotched with fuscous, this often in the form of four to six 

 short, broad stripes, the edge of hind margin pale yellow; scutellum more 

 or less tinged with fuscous, a vague median line paler, the extreme tip 

 ivory-white; apical half of corium and sometimes the clavus usually 

 heavily tinged with fuscous; cuneus and basal half of embolium yellow- 

 ish-translucent, edges and tip of cuneus often reddish ; membrane dusky, 

 the cells darker, veins yellowish; antennae reddish-brown, apical third of 

 joint 2 fuscous; legs reddish-brown, apical third of femora with two 

 dark rin^s; under surface usually fuscous, the prosternum, middle of 

 ventrals 1 — 4, a stripe along sides and spiracles pale, sometimes, espe- 

 cially in females, with under surface and legs wholly reddish-brown. 



