812 



FAMILY XXIX. — MIRID^E. 



base; basal two-thirds of elytra dull brownish-yellow with straight white 

 cross-bar reaching claval suture at basal third of corium and another at 

 apical third; area behind the latter fuscous-brown, shining; membrane 

 a uniform dusky translucent; under surface piceous-brown, strongly 

 shining, legs dark chestnut-brown. Joints 1 and 2 of antennae dark red- 

 dish- or fuscous-brown, 1 half as long as width of vertex, 2 four and a 

 half times as long as 1, 3 and 4 brownish-yellow, darker towards tips, 3 

 two-fifths the length of 2, 4 slightly shorter than 3. Pronotum with sides 

 deeply sinuate, basal portion somewhat flaring with hind angles promi- 

 nent, its disk finely scabrous. Scutellum with basal and apical areas 

 flat, the former on a higher plane, the middle with an obtuse elongate 

 tubercle. Elytra smooth. Hind tibia? of male distinctly compressed. 

 Length, 4.8—5.5 mm. (Fig. 179). 



Fig. 179. ft, Adult X 10 ; h & c, nymphs. 

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



Floyd and Crawford counties, Ind., June 23; beaten from 

 foliage of yellow pine, Pinus echinata Mill. The known range ex- 

 tends from Ontario and New England west to southern Indiana 

 and southwest to Maryland. Recorded also from California 

 and New Mexico. Drake (1923, 77) found it common about 

 Cranberry Lake, N. Y., June to August, on yellow birch, beech, 

 maple, white pine and herbaceous plants. Breeds on white pine. 



857 ( — ). Pilophorus LjETUS Van Duzee, 1918, 294. 



Piceous, more or less castaneous, head, antennae and legs paler; base 

 of elytra bright cinnamon-brown, the apical area and posterior silvery 

 line as in ee and hh of key; cuneus with a silvery point on inner basal 



