814 FAMILY XXIX. MIRID;£. 



times as long as 1 ; 3 more slender, basal half pale, apical half dark 

 brown, two-fifths as long as 2. Beak not reaching middle coxae. Meso- 

 scutum broadly exposed. Length, 4.1 mm. 



Known only from Lakehurst, N. J. 



860 ( — ). PlLOPHORUS HEIDEMANNI Poppius, 1914, 240. 



General color brown; base of head, hind portion of pronotum and 

 apical third of corium blackish-brown; scutellum, except tip, and re- 

 mainder of elytra reddish-brown; posterior silvery cross-bar broken into 

 three spots, the middle one the smaller; cuneus shining black, its inner 

 basal angle with a small patch of white scales; membrane smoke-brown; 

 ventrals and legs brown; coxa? and joints 1 and 2 of tarsi yellowish- 

 white. Antennae blackish-brown, joint 1 paler, not reaching tip of tylus; 

 2 gradually thickened from base to apex, not quite twice as long as 1. 

 Beak reaching tips of middle coxae. Pronotum about one-half shorter 

 than wide at base, hind margin concave, almost twice as wide as front 

 one. Scutellum strongly convex, only its tip fiat. Elytra in both sexes 

 slightly surpassing abdomen. Length, 3 — 3.2 mm. 



Recorded only from Virginia and West Virginia, where it was 

 taken by Heidemann in August and September. 



861 ( — ). Pilophorus nasicus Knight, 1926b, 18. 



Head and pronotum fuscous-black; elytra yellowish-brown; cuneus, 

 apical area of corium and embolium dark fuscous-brown, shining, cuneus 

 with a tuft of silvery scales on inner basal angle; silvery cross-bars of 

 elytra interrupted, the hind one composed of four tufts of silvery hairs 

 set on dark brown spots; membrane and veins fuscous-brown; legs yel- 

 lowish-brown; ventrals dark brown, the two basal ones paler. Joint 1 

 of antennae two-thirds as long as width of vertex; 3 and 4 brownish- 

 black, pale at base, 4 slightly shorter than 3. Scutellum rather strongly 

 convex with tufts of silvery scales on basal angles and apex. Length, 

 2.9 mm. 



Known only by a single male taken by Davis in November 

 at Newberry, Fla. 



862 (— ). Pilophorus depictus Knight, 1923, 539. 



Head and pronotum brownish-black; scutellum and membrane as in 

 furvus; elytra as in aa of key, the posterior silvery cross-bar twice inter- 

 rupted; entire area behind it, including cuneus, piceous, polished; legs 

 brownish-black, trochanters and apical half of hind coxae, white. Joint 

 1 of antennae brownish, slightly less than one-half as long as width of 

 vertex; 2 black, brownish at base, four times as long as 1 ; 3 and 4 fus- 

 cous, paler at base, 3 two-fifths as long as 2. 4 slightly shorter. Beak 

 reaching between middle coxae. Apical half of elytra flaring, widest at 

 cuneal fracture. Length, 3.5 mm. 



Known only by a single female taken near Washington, D. C, 

 and now in the Cornell University collection. 



