SUBFAMILY II. — CAPSIN^. 787 



It occurs in Nova Scotia, Quebec, New England and New York. 

 Part of the North Carolina specimens at hand are intermediate 

 in color between the two forms. 



790 (1036). Lygus campestris (Linnaeus), 1758, 448. 



Oblong-oval. Greenish-brown or brownish-yellow thinly clothed with 

 rather long yellowish prostrate hairs; head dull yellow; apical half of 

 tylus and lower half of cheeks often fuscous ; pronotum with a transvei'se 

 spot behind calli, a round one on basal angles and a sub-basal cross-bar 

 fuscous, these markings often obsolete; elytra dull straw-yellow to fus- 

 cous-brown, clavus and inner apical third of corium usually darker; 

 embolium pale yellow, its outer edge darker; cuneus dull yellow, the apex 

 and inner basal angle fuscous; membrane pale translucent with a faint 

 dusky tinge; legs greenish-yellow, the apical third of hind femora vaguely 

 annulate with darker; tibial spines and tips of beak and tarsi piceous. 

 Joint 1 of antennae yellow or brown, its length less than width of vertex, 

 remaining joints dark brown, 2 three and a third times the length of 1, 

 3 less than half the length of 2, slightly longer than 4. Pronotum, except 

 calli, finely, closely but distinctly punctate. Scutellum vaguely trans- 

 versely rugulose. Clavus coarsely, closely punctate, corium more finely 

 and shallowly so. Length, 4 — 4.2 mm. 



Marion and Putnam counties, Ind., May 1 — Oct. 6; swept 

 from its host plants, the poison hemlock, Conicum inoculation L., 

 and other Umbelliferse. Palisades, N. J., and Batavia, N. Y., 

 July — August (Davis). A European species, ranging in this 

 country from Newfoundland and New England west to Alaska 

 and the Pacific. Not recorded in the east south of the Dis- 

 trict of Columbia. Injurious at times to celery. Van Duzee 

 says that near Buffalo, N. Y. : "It is common May to August, 

 on flowers of Umbelliferse. It may frequently be found in win- 

 ter hibernating beneath loose bark of elm and other trees ; the 

 scutellum is then often a bright clear green." The Orthops 

 scutellatus Uhler (1877, 420) is a synonym. 



Subgenus Neolygus Knight, 1917, 561. 



The species belonging to this group or subgenus are oblong- 

 or elongate-oval, with the integument or body covering more 

 flimsy or delicate in character than in those preceding; prono- 

 tum usually much more finely transversely rugose, often almost 

 indistinctly punctate ; scutellum almost always finely trans- 

 versely strigose without evident punctures. The principal 

 character used by Knight in separating them was, however, 

 that pertaining to the genital claspers of male as set forth in 

 the key, p. 760, and shown in fig. 173, B. As the number of 



