SUBFAMILY II. — CAPSI1NLE. 783 



line, corium with apical half blackish, inner margin of basal half often 

 brownish, embolium yellowish, apical third blackish, cuneus pale yellow- 

 ish-translucent; membrane dark fuscous, basal half of cells, sides of 

 veins and spot near cuneus paler; legs greenish-yellow, hind femora in 

 part blackish; ventrals brownish-yellow, with narrow blackish line on 

 sides. Joint 1 of antennas yellowish-brown, two-thirds as long as pro- 

 notum; 2 black, narrowly pale at base, three times as long as 1; 3 and 4 

 blackish, 3 about three-fifths as long as 2, 4 two-thirds the length of 3. 

 Beak reaching hind margins of middle coxae. Length 4.7 — 5.5 mm. 



Recorded from Pennsylvania, District of Columbia and North 

 Carolina. 



819 (— ). Lygus laurel Knight, 1917, 636. 



Elongate-oval. Dull brownish- or greenish-yellow, thinly clothed 

 with yellowish pubescence; head brownish-yellow, usually with reddish 

 lines or dots, the vertex often with two short dark stripes; pronotum 

 with blackish stripes as in key; elytra usually with inner half of clavus 

 and apical third of corium blackish-fuscous, cuneus and basal two-thirds 

 of corium and embolium greenish-yellow; membrane with base and cells 

 fuscous, veins paler, apical half dusky with a pale spot each side; legs 

 greenish-yellow more or less reddish at base, hind femora as in key; 

 under surface fuscous-brown, the sides usually tinged with reddish, es- 

 pecially so in female. Joint 1 of antennae brownish-yellow, its length 

 two-thirds the width of head across eyes; 2 blackish, paler at extreme 

 base, three times as long as 1 ; 3 and 4 fuscous, 3 three-fifths as long as 

 2, 4 three-fifths the length of 3. Disk of pronotum, except calli, finely 

 transversely rugose with minute punctures between the ruga?; elytra 

 finely, densely shallowly punctate. Length 5.7 — 6.5 mm. 



Rock City, N. Y., July 4 (Gerhard). West Point, N. Y., June 

 15 (Davis). Black Mts. and Swannanoa, N. Car., July (Brim- 

 Icy). The known range extends from New York southwest to 

 North Carolina. Breeds on mountain laurel, Kalmia hit if alia L. 

 Of it Knight says: "The eggs are doubtless deposited in the 

 twigs of laurel during July and hatch in the following spring 

 with the unfolding of the leaves. This most unusual and in- 

 teresting species will doubtless be found breeding on laurel 

 throughout the Appalachian region." 



In addition to the eastern species of Lygus above treated, 

 there is one described by Reuter which is at present unknown. 

 A translation of his Latin description is therefore given as 

 follows : 



— (1022). Lygus caroling Reuter, 1876, 71. 



"Oblong-ovate, greenish, minutely punctured above, pale pubescent; 

 antennae testaceous, fuscous toward apex, second segment longer than the 

 width of the pronotum at base; scutellum with two longitudinal fuscous 



