762 FAMILY XXIX. — MIRID,£. 



name. Knight records it as breeding on the button-bush, Cepha- 

 lanthns occidentalis L. Among the 42 specimens at hand there 

 are all gradations between typical fasciatus and the so-called 

 var. viridiusculus Knight (1917, 600). 



784 ( — ). Lygus superiorensis Knight, 1917, 572. 



Oblong-oval. Head black, curved basal carina of vertex pale, lorae 

 and tylus dark red; disk of pronotum reddish, sides reddish-brown, calli 

 black, inner half of each with a reddish spot; scutellum reddish-black, tip 

 pale; elytra dark reddish translucent, tips of embolium and cuneus and 

 spot on latter near embolium blackish; membrane pale hyaline, apical 

 half of cells brownish, veins reddish; femora reddish-brown, twice an- 

 nulate with blackish near tips; tibia? reddish-brown, tips, spines and spot 

 near knees darker; tarsi reddish-brown, tips blackish; sternum black, 

 opaque; ventrals dark reddish. Beak reaching third ventral. Second 

 antennal two-thirds longer than width of head across eyes. Pronotum 

 finely punctate, strongly shining. Scutellum coarsely punctate, trans- 

 versely rugose. Upper surface sub-glabrous. Length, 5.8 mm. 



Known from a single male taken at Sault Sainte Marie, Mich. 



785 (1014). Lygus pabulinus (Linnaeus), 1761, 253. 



Elongate-oval. Color as in key, sparsely clothed with minute in- 

 clined brownish hairs; membrane pale translucent, usually (var. signifer 

 Reut.) with a fuscous mark in apical third of the large cell and a V- 

 shaped mark beyond it, the two forming a crude inverted Y ; spines of 

 tibia? and tips of tarsi fuscous. Head relatively small and pointed, ver- 

 tex convex, shining. Antenna? with joint 1 and basal half of 2 greenish, 

 remainder fuscous; 1 two-thirds the length of pronotum, 2 more than 

 three times the length of 1, 3 nearly two-thirds the length of 2, one-third 

 longer than 4. Pronotum very finely and densely rugose-punctate. 

 Scutellum minutely transversely strigose. Elytra with minute rather 

 sparse, shallow punctures. Length, 6 — 6.5 mm. 



Marion and Putnam counties, Ind., June 5 — Sept. 1 ; in the 

 former swept from its host plant, the jewel-weed or touch-me- 

 not, Impatiens biflora Walt., growing along the margins of White 

 River. A palsearctic European species ranging in this country 

 from Quebec and New England west to Michigan, British 

 Columbia and Alaska, and southwest to the mountains of North 

 Carolina. The membrane is sometimes wholly pale with veins 

 green. Easily known by the lack of basal carina of vertex and 

 uniform green color. 



786 (1024). Lygus apicalis Fieber, 1861, 275. 



Elongate-oblong, male, more oval, female. Color pale green fading 

 to greenish-yellow, very sparsely clothed with minute yellow hairs ; 

 scutellum, clavus and corium often with a few scattered fuscous or 



