SUBFAMILY II. — CAPSINjE. 771 



Portage, N. Y., June 27 (Davis and Gerhard). The known 

 range extends from Ontario and New England west to south- 

 ern Michigan. Knight states that it breeds abundantly on the 

 linden, Tilia americana L., the young hatching with the unfold- 

 ing of the leaves and maturing in late June. The females de- 

 posit their eggs in the twigs during July and disappear by the 

 end of that month. Adults are frequently attracted to the 

 flowers of the smooth sumac, Rhus glabra L. It probably occurs 

 in those parts of Indiana where the linden grows. A variety 

 heterophyllus, uniform pale green in hue, the female with shorter 

 beak, has been named by Knight (1918c, 44). It is known 

 from Georgia and Mississippi, where it occurs on the silver- 

 leaf linden, Tilia heterophylla Vent. 



797 ( — ). Lygus inconspicuus Knight, 1917, 612. 



Pale green, fading to greenish-yellow, thinly clothed with fine yel- 

 lowish pubescence; clavus with a vague pale brownish to fuscous blotch 

 along its inner half, this reaching only to base of commissure; inner 

 apical third of corium in great part fuscous or brownish, this hue some- 

 times extending to outer margin of embolium, thus forming a more or 

 less complete dark cross-bar; membrane pale translucent, tips of cells 

 and two spots behind them pale fuscous; legs green, spines of tibiae and 

 tips of tarsi and beak brownish. Joint 1 of antennae green, one-third 

 longer than width of vertex; 2 green, dusky near tip, its length equal 

 to width of base of pronotum; 3 and 4 fuscous, 4 about two-thirds the 

 length of 3. Head very short, face nearly vertical. Beak reaching first 

 ventral. Pronotum minutely rugosely shallowly punctate ; calli scarcely 

 evident. Elytra finely scabrous. Length, 4.5 — 5.2 mm. 



Marion, Putnam and Orange counties, Ind., May 30 — June 3 ; 

 swept from herbage in dense woodlands (W. S.B.). Willow 

 Springs, 111., July 3 (Gerhard). The known range extends from 

 Connecticut west to Indiana and southwest to Georgia. Breeds 

 on wild grape. 



Group II. — Subgenus Neolygus. 



KEY TO EASTERN SPECIES OF GROUP II, SUBGENUS NEOLYGUS. 



a. Beak scarcely reaching tips of middle coxae; color rich yellowish* 

 brown, slightly darker on clavus and apically on corium. 



b. Second antennal yellowish, infuscated at apex, its length greater 



than width of pronotum at base. 798. viburni. 



bb. Second antennal not fuscous at apex, its length less than width of 

 pronotum at base. 799. NYSS.«. 



aa. Beak reaching beyond tips of middle coxa?. 



c. Tylus with apical half black; two bands on apical third of hind 



femora, sides of body and head in part, reddish. 



800. ATRITYLUS. 



