806 FAMILY XXIX. — MIRID^E. 



Ipswich, Mass., July 22 (/ 'an Dusee). Recorded heretofore only 

 from Massachusetts and Long Island, N. Y., where it occurs 

 in July on cranberry, / 'accinium macrocarpon Ait. The white, 

 scale-like pubescence, notable in fresh specimens, is easily 

 eroded, leaving the surface polished. 



848 (1214). Parthenicus JUNIPERI (Heidemann) , 1905a, 49. 



Elongate, sides subparallel. Pale green fading to greenish-yellow; 

 above thickly clothed with short, suberect golden-yellow hairs, intermixed 

 with longer brownish ones, these easily abraded ; the dark ones often 

 combined to form a small dark spot near basal angles of scutellum, and 

 others on inner edge of cuneus at middle and base; head, apical third of 

 corium, cuneus in great part and under surface of hind femora more or 

 less tinged with reddish ; scutellum and often the base of clavus pale 

 fuscous; membrane dusky translucent, somewhat iridescent, the veins 

 white; legs greenish-yellow; under surface of body and upper side of 

 hind femora usually pale dusky brown. Head shorter and more nearly 

 vertical than in vaccini. Length, 2.7 — 3 mm. 



Putnam Co., Ind., July 4 — Oct. 1. Dunedin, Fla., Feb. 14 — 

 April 1 ; recorded also from Crescent City, that State. Beaten 

 in numbers in autumn from its host plant, the red cedar, Juni- 

 perus virginiana L. One Dunedin specimen was taken in Febru- 

 ary from beneath a log. The known range extends from On- 

 tario and New England west to Indiana, and southwest to 

 Florida, its distribution being probably much more extensive 

 than the records show. 



Tribe IV. PILOPHORINI Kirkaldy, 1906, 132. 



To this tribe, as characterized in the key, p. 796, belong four 

 of our eastern genera of the subfamily. 



KEY TO EASTERN GENERA OF TRIBE PILOPHORINI. 



(/. Basal half of vertex compressed to a thin edge, which slightly over- 

 laps the apex of pronotum; first antennal not longer than width of 

 vertex; hind tibia? of males usually compressed. 

 I). Joint 2 of antennas thickened toward apex; width of head less than 

 width of pronotum at base. 

 c. Elytra constricted or coarctate at middle and bearing white pubes- 

 cent bands. I. PlLOPHORUS, p. 807. 

 cc. Elytra with sides subparallel and without white pubescent bands 

 or cross-bars. II. Alepidiella, p. 817. 

 bb. Joint 2 of antenna? scarcely thickened toward apex; width of head 

 across eyes greater than width of pronotum at base; elytra with 

 sides parallel and usually without white pubescent bands. 



III. Alepidia, p. 817. 

 a<i. Base of vertex not compressed; length of first antennal subequal to 



