SUBFAMILY II. — CAPSINjE. 763 



brownish lines or spots; membrane pale translucent with a vague fus- 

 cous spot in the apical third of each ceil and two or three others behind 

 the cells; tips of cuneus, beak and tarsi fuscous; antennae reddish-yellow, 

 the apex of 2 and joints 3 and 4 fuscous; legs greenish-yellow, the apical 

 third of hind femora with faint reddish or fuscous i\ngs or blotches; 

 under surface greenish, often with narrow reddish or fuscous lines on 

 sides. Beak reaching first ventral. Joint 1 of antennas slightly less 

 than two-thirds the length of pronotum, 2 four times the length of 1, 3 

 one-half the length of 2, one-third longer than 4. Pronotum with calli 

 indistinct, disk behind them finely rugosely minuteiy punctate. Scutellum 

 minutely transversely strigose. Elytra very finely, thickly and shallowly 

 punctate. Length, 4.8 — 5.2 mm. 



This is the most common Mirid in southern Florida, both on 

 mainland and islands, hibernating beneath boards and other 

 cover and in fall and spring swept from flowers and herbage 

 along roadsides and borders of marshes. At R. P. Park it was 

 frequent in December on weeds along the borders of tomato 

 fields, and in March on herbage along the borders of the ever- 

 glades. Fully one-fourth of the specimens taken from golden- 

 rod and other flowers in spring are very prettily marked with 

 red, the extremes having four stripes on pronotum, a broad 

 stripe enclosing a yellow spot each side of scutellum, a stripe on 

 sides of ventrals, some lines on front and middle femora and 

 two bars on hind femora of the red hue. It is a cosmopolitan 

 species, ranging in this country from New England southwest 

 in the coast-wise states to Florida and Texas. Recorded also 

 from Missouri, California and the West Indies. Breeds on the 

 horse-weed, Leptilon canadense (L.). According to Knight the 

 L. prasinus Reut. (1876, 72) was based on green forms of L. 

 apicalis, while the American records of the European species, L. 

 contaminatus .(Fall.) and L. lucorum (Meyer), should also be 

 referred to apicalis. 



787 (1035). Lygus plagiatus Uhler, 1895, 35. 



Oblong-oval. Fuscous or greenish-black; head dark greenish-yellow, 

 the vertex often with a median black stripe; pronotum glabrous, green- 

 ish-yellow, usually with a dot on each callus, a dot or ray behind it, and 

 the hind margin and posterior angles, blackish, sometimes the whole disk 

 blackish; scutellum either black with two discal spots and tip yellow or 

 yellow with base, two median lines and side margins black; clavus and 

 corium with numerous small yellowish pubescent spots and dots; cuneus 

 yellowish-translucent, the inner basal angles and tip black; membrane 

 with cells black, remainder dusky, veins paler; legs greenish-yellow, 

 femora annulate on apical third with dark rings; tibiae with spines, a 

 ring near base and tips fuscous: tips of tarsi and beak blackish. Joint 1 



