SUBFAMILY II. — CAPSIN.E. 



791 



tex, 2 two and three-fourth times the length of 1, 3 two-fifths as long 

 as 2, 4 three-fifths the length of 3. Beak reaching between middle coxse. 

 Upper surface shining, coarsely punctate, each puncture bearing a sub- 

 erect pale hair. Length, 4 — 5 mm. 



Recorded only from Virginia and Missouri. 



Fig. 176. 

 Knight X 11. 



a, Mecomma gilvipes (Stal), female X 15; b, Ncoborus pubescens 

 (After Drake, Tech. Publ. 16, N. Y. St. Coll. For.). 



830 ( — ). Neoborus pubescens Knight, 1917a, 81. 



Oblong, sides subparallel, male, more oval, female. Head reddish- 

 brown, usually with tylus, median line and a dash each side of eyes, 

 blackish ; pronotum black, the middle of collar, a median line dilated at 

 middle, narrow edges of side and basal margins, and often one or two 

 vague stripes behind the calli, pale yellow; scutellum as in key; elytra 

 with clavus and a broad bar reaching across apical third of corium, black 

 or piceous, remainder of corium and entire cuneus pale yellow; membrane 

 dusky, the cells and veins darker; antennae and legs pale yellow, under 

 surface black, usually paler on middle and genital segment. Pronotum 

 with sides distinctly carinate only on apical half, disk except calli, rather 

 finely, deeply and evenly punctate, both it and elytra sparsely clothed 

 with suberect yellowish hairs. Scutellum very sparsely punctate. Length, 

 4.5—4.8 mm. (Fig. 176, b) . 



Marion Co., Ind., June 12; beaten from black ash (W. S. B.). 

 Palos Park, 111., July 4 (Gerhard). The known range extends 

 from New England west to Michigan and Illinois. Hussey re- 

 corded it as common in June and July on the black ash, Fraxinus 



