SUBFAMILY II. — CAPSINiE. 775 



punctate; calli small, scarcely evident. Scutellum finely transversely 

 rugose. Elytra scabrous or minutely strigose-punctate. Length, 4.6 — 

 4.8 mm. 



Steuben County, Ind., June 15 ; swept from herbage in a 

 tamarack swamp (W.S.B.). Rock City, N. Y., July 4 (Davis 

 and Gerhard) . Ashland, Mass., May 2 (Frost). Known hereto- 

 fore only from New England and New York. Breeds on beech 

 and yellow birch, Betula lutea Michx. It is said to prefer cool 

 shady locations, the eggs hatching in early spring, the adults 

 maturing in late June and disappearing by Aug. 1. This 

 species resembles hirticulus closely, but is somewhat smaller, 

 with general color paler, the male no darker than the female 

 and membrane more uniformly dusky. 



803 (1019). Lygus hirticulus Van Duzee, 1916, 41. 



Head and pronotum usually uniformly dull greenish-yellow or pale 

 reddish-brown, in some males in part or almost wholly fuscous-black; 

 elytra and membrane as in key, cuneus pale translucent to brownish; 

 legs greenish-yellow or pale straw-yellow; under surface of the same 

 hue, the sides often with a vague reddish stripe. Antennae greenish- 

 yellow, faintly tinged with dusky toward apex, joint 1 two-thirds the 

 length of pronotum, 2 three and a half times the length of 1, 3 and 4 

 united slightly shorter than 2, 4 two-thirds the length of 3. Pronotum 

 with disk, except calli, finely rugose-punctate. Scutellum and clavus 

 finely transversely strigose. Corium minutely scabrous. Length, 4.8 — 

 5.5 mm. (Fig. 186, b) . 



Marion Co., Ind., May 31 — July 14 ; beaten from foliage of 

 maple. Ranges from Maine and Massachusetts west to Michi- 

 gan and Indiana. Recorded also by Van Duzee from Crescent 

 City and Sevenoaks, Fla. Knight has reared specimens from 

 chestnut, beech and woodbine. 



804 ( — ). Lygus irroratus sp. nov. 



Elongate-oval. Pale brown, flecked above with numerous scattered 

 spots of pale yellow, more thickly beneath with smaller spots of the 

 same hue, the pale spots less evident on clavus and corium than on other 

 parts above; membrane pale hyaline, veins yellowish; legs pale yellow, 

 both femora and tibiae vaguely marked with small brown spots. Joint 1 

 of antennae yellow with three or four reddish-brown dots, three-fourths 

 as long as width of vertex; 2 dull yellow, four and a half times as long 

 as 1 ; 3 and 4 dusky, 3 one-fourth the length of 2, 4 two-thirds as long 

 as 3. Upper surface thinly clothed with fine inclined yellowish hairs. 

 Beak reaching hind coxae. Pronotum twice as wide at base as at apex, 

 hind portion rather strongly convex, thickly and finely transversely 

 strigose with minute punctures between the strigae; hind margin broadly 

 rounded. Scutellum similarly strigose. Clavus and corium finely and 

 shallowly rugose-punctate. Length, 3.8 mm. 



