SUBFAMILY II. — CAPSIN^E. 781 



both foliage and fruit ; also on dogwood, and occurs on prickly 

 ash. 82 A pale slender form, which preys upon apples in Nova 

 Scotia, Knight (1916, 349) named var. novdscotiensis. 



813 ( — ). Lygus parrotti Knight, 1919, 21. 



General color yellowish to brownish; pronotum with a fuscous- 

 brown ray behind each callus; elytra with dark markings as in key, 

 cuneus yellowish-hyaline; membrane fuscous, veins and basal half of 

 cells paler; legs dull yellow, apical half of hind femora fuscous with 

 two pale rings; ventrals yellowish, sides and genital region fuscous. 

 Joints 1 and 2 of antennae straw-yellow, 1 two-thirds as long as pro- 

 notum, 2 three and one-third times longer than 1 ; 3 and 4 pale fuscous, 

 3 nearly three-fifths the length of 2, 4 as long as 1. Beak reaching base 

 of hind coxae. Length, 5.1 mm. 



Recorded only from Geneva, N. Y., where it breeds on J'ibur- 



814 ( — ). Lygus parshleyi Knight, 1917, 611. 



General color yellowish-brown; head with cheeks, lorae and apical 

 half of tylus darker; pronotum with dark markings as in key, the rays 

 behind calli sometimes merging on base, leaving only the center of disk 

 pale; scutellum darker on sides; clavus and apical two-thirds of corium 

 and embolium dark brown; cuneus pale yellowish-translucent; mem- 

 brane pale fuscous, sides of veins, basal half of cells and spot near tip 

 of cuneus pale; legs as in communis; ventrals dull yellow, sides and 

 genital area dark brown. Joints 1 and 2 of antennae yellowish-brown, 

 apex of 2 blackish; 1 one-third longer than width of vertex, 2 nearly 

 three times longer than 1 ; 3 and 4 fuscous, 3 three-fifths the length of 2, 

 4 nearly three-fourths as long as 3. Beak reaching between hind coxae. 

 Length, 4.8 — 5 mm. 



The typical form is recorded only from Maine and New 

 Hampshire. Examples of a var. shermani Knight, taken at 

 Highlands, N. Car., July 6, were received from Brimley. It is 

 known only from that State, is more brownish than black, with 

 dark rays on pronotum ; second antennal shorter, wholly dark 

 brown to blackish or with basal half pale. Length, 5.6 — 6 mm. 



815 ( — ). Lygus univittatus Knight, 1917, 623. 



Dull greenish- or brownish-yellow, more or less marked with reddish 

 and fuscous, sparsely clothed with yellow pubescence; head greenish- 

 yellow flecked with numerous reddish points or dots; pronotum with 

 blackish rays evanescent behind ; elytra greenish-yellow, tinged with 

 reddish, clavus along the commissure and apical third of corium dark 

 brown to fuscous, embolium greenish-yellow tinged with reddish; mem- 

 brane with cells fuscous, veins pale, apical half dusky; legs greenish- 

 yellow, femora heavily tinged with reddish-fuscous, tibiae more lightly 



R: For a full account of its life history and destructive habits see Bull. 368, 

 Geneva, N. Y. Agr. Exp. Station, 363 — 384. 



