SUBFAMILY II. — CAPSINiE. 761 



Head short and broad. Joints 1 and 2 of antennae short and stout; 1 

 slightly shorter than width of vertex, 2 nearly three times as long as 1, 

 3 and 4 slender, subequal in length, united one-fifth shorter than 2. Beak 

 reaching base of hind coxae. Pronotum nearly twice as wide at base as 

 long, disk, except calli, also the scutellum, finely transversely rugose, 

 shallowly punctate between the rugae. Elytra finely and closely punctate. 

 Length, 4.7 — 5.2 mm. 



Marshall and Marion counties, Ind., June 24 — Sept. 28; fre- 

 quent on weeds and willows along the banks of White River 

 (II '. S. B.) . Washington, D. C, and Columbus, Ohio, July (Ger- 

 hard) . Bloomsburg, Pa., and Fairfax Co., Va., June — September 

 (Davis). A European species ranging in this country from 

 Ontario and New England west to the Pacific and southwest to 

 Georgia and Texas. Uhler (1892, 183) redescribed it as Had- 

 rodema pulverulenta and stated that it often occurred in gardens 

 on the blossoms of privet, Ligustrum vulgare L. Knight found 

 it breeding in June near Batavia, N. Y., on the peach-leaved 

 willow, Salix amygdaloides Anders, and also in scattering num- 

 bers on other willows. 



783 (1023). Lygus fasciatus Reuter, 1876, 72. 



Oblong-oval. Dull greenish-yellow, rather thickly clothed with semi- 

 prostrate fine yellowish hairs; scutellum reddish, the median line and tip 

 usually paler, sometimes green or yellow with only a few red dots on 

 sides (var. viridiusculus Knight) ; inner half of clavus and inner apical 

 angles of corium reddish-piceous ; membrane dusky marbled with paler ; 

 legs pale yellow, hind femora with apical half reddish, a narrow preapical 

 ring and knees pale, basal fifth of tibiae usually red. Head very broad 

 with eyes large, overlapping front angles of pronotum as in Dichrooscy- 

 tus. Joints 1 and 2 of antennae greenish-yellow, the latter more than 

 three times as long as 1, its apex blackish, 3 dusky, paler at base, 4 fus- 

 cous, one-half as long as 3. Pronotum and scutellum finely transversely 

 strigose, with minute punctures between the strigae. Elytra finely, dense- 

 ly, evenly punctate. Length, 4 — 4.5 mm. 



Mineral Springs, Lake Co., Ind., Oct. 2 (Gerhard). Sanford, 

 Dunedin, Ft. Myers, Miami, R. P. Park and Istokpoga, Fla., 

 Nov. 19 — April 23 (W. S. B.). Common about Dunedin in late 

 autumn and early spring both on the mainland and Hog Island ; 

 occurring on low herbage in waste moist places, on the foliage 

 of the groundsell tree, Baccharis halimifolia L., and at porch 

 light. Described from South Carolina and ranges from New 

 England and New York southwest to Florida, Texas and the 

 West Indies. The Lygus olivaceus Reut. (1907b, 6), described 

 from Jamaica, is a synonym, probably based on the female of 

 fasciatus and the previous Florida records have been under that 



