SUBFAMILY III. — ORTHOTYLIN^. 



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tarsi yellow, third tarsal and claws black; ventrals black with fine short 

 grayish hairs. Pronotum minutely punctate, its basal half and disk of 

 scutellum transversely wrinkled, calli subobsolete. Elytra, brachypterous 

 form, obovate, reaching fourth dorsal, tips broadly rounded, disk shal- 

 lowly and coarsely punctate. Length, 2.5 — 3 mm. 



Shalford and Hurst Green, England (British Mus. Coll.). An 

 introduced European species, recorded by Van Duzee as rang- 

 ing in this country from New England west to Colorado and 

 south to Maryland, but, according to Knight, correctly iden- 

 tified only from Maine and Canada. Macropterous forms are 

 very scarce. 



841 (1121). Halticus bractatus (Say), 1832, 26; I, 348. 



Males — Usually macropterous; oblong-oval, sides subparallel. Black, 

 strongly shining, very thinly clothed with silvery gray hairs which, on 

 the elytra are usually condensed into small spots; cuneus blackish trans- 

 lucent, its apex pale; membrane pale dusky translucent throughout; 

 under surface and femora in great part black, front and middle femora 

 with tips broadly pale, hind ones more narrowly so; tibiae and tarsi yel- 

 lowish, tarsal claws and basal third of hind tibia? blackish. Joint 1 of 



Fig. 178. a, Brachypterous female. X 10 : b, full winged female, X 12 ; c, male, 

 X 11; d, head of male in outline. (After Chittenden, IT. S. Div. Ent). 



