SUBFAMILY II. — CAPSIN^E. 789 



stripe as in key, embolium and cuneus pale translucent; legs greenish- 

 yellow, tips of beak and tarsi and often the sides of pleura piceous. 

 Antennal joints 3 and 4 and apex of 2, fuscous. Length, 5.2 — 5.7 mm. 



Marion Co., Ind., July 31; swept from coarse grasses along 

 the side of a railway embankment {W. S. B.) . Clarke, Lake 

 Co., Intf., Aug. 6 (Gerhard). Ranges from Quebec and New 

 England west to Michigan and Indiana. Food plants the white 

 ash, Fraxinus dmericana L., and probably other species of ash. 

 As in amosnus the markings on corium are red in young speci- 

 mens, fuscous-brown in old ones. The beak apparently varies 

 somewhat in length, in the specimens at hand reaching only to 

 base of middle coxa?. 



825 ( — ). Neoborus glaber Knight, 1923, 563. 



Oblong-oval. Color mainly as in key; pronotum brownish-yellow, 

 propleura, calli and a stripe, widening behind, each side of disk extend- 

 ing from calli to subbasal margin, brownish-black; cuneus yellowish 

 translucent, its apical third and inner margin fuscous; membrane uni- 

 formly fuscous, veins slightly paler; legs yellowish, middle and hind 

 femora with two subapical brownish bands; ventrals dull yellow, a line 

 each side of middle and genital segment brownish. Antenna? brownish- 

 fuscous, joint 1 one-half as long as width of head across eyes, 2 three 

 times as long as 1, 3 subequal in length to 1, one-third as long as 2, 4 

 three-fourths the length of 3. Beak reaching between middle coxae. 

 Pronotum, scutellum and elytra glabrous, shining, coarsely punctate. 

 Length, 4.6 — 4.8 mm. 



Marion Co., Ind., June 4 — 26; beaten from ash (W. S.B.). 

 St. Anthony Park, Minn., June 6 (Minn. Univ. Coll.). Ranges 

 from Ontario and New England west to the Dakotas ; occurring 

 from June to August on ash. The dark markings on pronotum 

 and femora are often vague. 



826 (1045). Neoborus canadensis (Van Duzee), 1912a, 486. 



Head, including tylus, piceous-brown with cheeks and a median line 

 on vertex pale; pronotum with apical half fuscous, basal half brown, calli 

 in part and median stripe pale; elytra in part or wholly dark brown, 

 thinly clothed with inclined yellowish hairs, embolium and cuneus pale 

 yellow, the former with outer edge, the latter with tip, blackish; mem- 

 brane brown, veins paler; middle of under surface pale yellow, the sides 

 with a broad fuscous stripe; legs yellow, the hind femora with two sub- 

 apical dark rings. Joint 1 of antennae black, one-fifth longer than width 

 of vertex, 2 fuscous-brown, darker at base, three times the length of 1, 3 

 and 4 fuscous, 3 as long as 1, 4 two-thirds the length of 3. Beak reach- 

 ing apex of middle coxae. Pronotum transversely rugose with small 

 but distinct punctures between the rugae. Scutellum transversely strigose. 

 Elytra finely densely and shallowly punctate. Length, 5 — 5.3 mm. 



