SUBFAMILY II. — CAPSIN^E. 



795 



length of 2, 4 dark reddish-brown, three-tenths the length of 3. Front 

 lobe of pronotum with a small median impression. Scutellum convex, 

 longer than broad, strongly tapering behind. Elytra with short, very 

 sparse prostrate yellow hairs, a faint yellow spot near middle. Hind 



femora rather stout, subfusiform, 

 feebly curved. Length to tip of mem- 

 brane, 6 — 7 mm. (Fig. 177). 



Warren, Vermilion and Marion 

 counties, Ind., July 21 — Sept. 1. 

 Only a few specimens were taken 

 at each station, usually by 

 sweeping nettles and other herb- 

 age in low moist grounds. 

 Ranges from New York west to 

 Illinois and southwest to Texas. 

 Uhler says that in Maryland it 

 occurs on Liriodendron and grape 

 vines. Banks (1907, 425) found 

 it quite abundant in August at 

 Falls Church, Va., on the foliage 

 of tulip trees. "They were dif- 

 ficult to recognize at rest, and 

 when disturbed were very active 

 (Original). and difficult of capture." 



II. Barberiella Poppius, 1914a, 255. 



Slender bodied ant-like species having the head wider than 

 apex of pronotum, its front vertical, vertex impressed, not 

 grooved; beak reaching upon hind coxse; pronotum with front 

 lobe subcylindrical, hind one strongly convex, flaring basally; 

 mesoscutum broadly exposed; disk of scutellum convex, con- 

 ical, the apex of cone bent backward ; elytra strongly con- 

 stricted at middle, disk nearly flat; hind tibiae compressed, 

 strongly curved. One species occurs in our territory, another 

 in Texas. 



836 ( — ). Barberiella apicalis Knight, 1923, 657. 



Head and pronotum brownish-black, clothed with pale pubescence 

 and sparse suberect hairs ; scutellum dark brown ; clavus and base of 

 corium fuscous-brown ; middle of corium with a transverse pale spot fol- 

 lowed by a shining fuscous or brown cross-bar, the apex pale brown; 

 cuneus brownish-translucent, strongly deflexed ; membrane fuscous- 

 brown, veins slightly darker; legs dark brown, femora alutaceous, tibiae 

 beset with yellow setae; ventrals blackish-brown, a pale spot on middle 



