784 FAMILY XXIX. — MIRIDJE. 



stripes; hemelytra immaculate, cuneus with the base fuscous, its apex 

 broadly black; abdomen black above; apices of the femora annulated 

 with fuscous, apices of the tarsi black; tibiae impunctate-testaceous; mem- 

 brane marked with fuscous, veins greenish. Length, 5.3 mm." 



Described from "Carolinam." Recorded from Brownsville 

 and Galveston, Tex.', by Snow (1906, 152). 



XX. Tropidosteptes Uhler, 1878, 404. 



Elongate-oval, shining, subglabrous species having the head 

 short, porrect, face vertical, vertex convex, its basal margin 

 carinate; eyes small, reniform, compressed; beak reaching 

 middle coxae; antennae rather stout, shorter than body; pro- 

 notum subtrapezoidal, strongly narrowed from base to apex, 

 sides straight, their margins carinate, calli smooth, prominent, 

 disk coarsely punctate both between and in front of them, its 

 hind portion convex, somewhat flaring, coarsely and unevenly 

 punctate, the hind angles and basal margin broadly rounded; 

 scutellum equilateral, convex, coarsely rugose-punctate; elytra 

 entire, cuneus and membrane deflexed, the fracture prominent ; 

 hind tarsi with joints 1 and 2 subequal, united equal to 3. One 

 of the two known North American species occurs in the eastern 

 states. 



820 (1039). Tropidosteptes cardinalis Uhler, 1878, 404. 



Elongate-oval, broadest across apex of commissure. Bright red 

 fading to brick-red, sometimes to dull greenish-yellow; antennae, tylus, 

 legs in great part, apical half of clavus and inner half of apical third 

 of corium, blackish; membrane fuscous; front and middle femora with a 

 pale ring near apex; prosternum, basal half of tarsi and coxa? dull yel- 

 low; tips of tarsi and beak fuscous; ventrals in part dusky, sparsely 

 clothed with yellow hairs. Joint 1 of antennae stoutest, glabrous, sub- 

 equal in length to width of vertex; 2 sparsely pilose, twice as long as 

 1 ; 3 and 4 very slender, pilose, united two-thirds the length of 2, 4 one- 

 half the length of 3. Length, 5.5—6 mm. 



Marion, Putnam and Crawford counties, Ind., May 10 — 

 Aug. 14; beaten from foliage of ash. Milford, Conn., June 12 

 (Porter) . Ranges from New England west to Michigan and 

 Illinois and southwest to Jacksonville, Fla. Breeds on ash. For 

 an account of its life history see Psyche, XXIII, 1916, pp. 1 — 3. 



XXI. Cyrtocapsidea Reuter, 1905a, 25. 



Small oval species having the head wider across eyes than 

 apex of pronotum, its front subvertical, rather acutely pro- 



