818 FAMILY XXIX. — MIRID^E. 



half as long as 2, 4 two-thirds the length of 3. Beak reaching middle 

 coxae. Eyes very large, flattened behind, overlapping front angles of 

 pronotum. Pronotum feebly narrowed from base to apex, disk finely 

 wrinkled, hind angles obtusely rounded. Length, 3.8 — 4.2 mm. 



Lake and Marion counties, Ind., July 14 — Aug. 15. Kissim- 

 mee, Fla., Feb. 16 ; this the only record for that State 

 {IV. S. B.) . Jamesburg, N. J., July 2 {Davis) . Described from 

 Colorado. Occurs in the east from Massachusetts and New 

 York to Virginia, Florida and Alabama. Breeds on the scrub 

 and red pines. Knight (1926b, 26) has described as var. 

 squamosa, a form having several small patches of silvery pubes- 

 cence on the elytra and includes among his paratypespartof the 

 Indiana and Florida specimens above mentioned. 



IV. Pseudoxenetus Reuter, 1909, 66. 



Elongate, slender-bodied glabrous species having the head 

 feebly exserted, wider across eyes than apex of pronotum, its 

 front declivent ; eyes large, elongate-oval ; beak reaching middle 

 coxae; antennae slender, three-fourths the length of body, joint 1 

 longer than head, 2 feebly thickened toward apex, three times 

 as long as 1, 3 and 4 much more slender, united slightly shorter 

 than 2 ; pronotum campanulate, apical portion subcylindrical, 

 basal portion convex, much wider, humeral angles subacute, 

 hind margin broadly concave, leaving the convex mesoscutum 

 widely exposed ; elytra entire, surpassing tip of abdomen, 

 feebly broadly constricted at middle, commissure twice the 

 length of scutellum, cuneus elongate-triangular, feebly de- 

 flexed ; joints 1 and 2 of hind tarsi subequal in length, 3 about 

 as long as the others united. Two species are known. 



KEY TO SPECIES OF PSEUDOXENETUS. 



a. Apical half or more of scutellum yellowish-white, remainder black; 

 pronotum and pro- and mesosterna black or dark brown. 



870. SCUTELLATUS. 



aa. Apical half or more of scutellum black, remainder reddish; basal 

 half of pronotum and pro- and mesosterna reddish. 



871. REGALIS. 



870 (1160). Pseudoxenetus scutellatus (Uhler), 1890, 81. 



Elongate, subcylindrical. Color somewhat variable; head and prono- 

 tum usually black, shining; elytra fuscous-black or dark brown, sub- 

 opaque; apical half or more of scutellum and a bar across base of cuneus 

 yellowish-white, remainder of cuneus piceous, shining, membrane dark 

 fuscous; joint 1 of antennae brownish above, yellowish beneath, 2 dark 

 brown, 3 and 4 dusky white; legs fuscous-brown, front and middle tibiae 



