820 FAMILY XXIX. — MIRID^E. 



aa. Pronotum subtrapezoidal, its sides nearly straight and gradually 

 converging from base to apex, not constricted at middle; embolar 

 margins not sinuate. II. Ceratocapsus.*" 1 



I. Pamillia Uhler, 1887a, 31. 



Differs from Pilophorus in having the head longer and more 

 convex, front more nearly vertical ; antennae much stouter, of 

 nearly equal thickness throughout, joint 1 three-fifths as long 

 as width of vertex, 2 longer than pronotum, four times the 

 length of 1, 3 and 4 subequal, united one-fifth longer than 2 ; 

 pronotum as in key, calli wanting; elytra widened behind the 

 middle, outer margin of corium broadly curved ; cuneus broader 

 at base than long, strongly deflected, the fracture deep ; arolia 

 free, converging apically. Two species are known, one occur- 

 ring in our territory. 



872 (— ). Pamillia davisi Knight, 1923, 535. 



Elongate, widened behind middle. Dark reddish-brown, finely pubes- 

 cent; joints 1 and 2 of antenna? brownish-yellow, 3 and 4 dark brown, 

 thickly clothed with fine short yellow hairs; basal half of clavus paler 

 brown, both it and corium sparsely beset with short erect black bristles; 

 corium with a pale brown pruinose band across middle and a strongly 

 shining area on apical third; basal half of embolium amber-brown, trans- 

 lucent; membrane brownish-black, paler towards tip; legs reddish-brown, 

 trochanters and tips of coxa? paler; ventrals dark brown, strongly shin- 

 ing, the third pruinose. Front of head and vertex alutaceous. Beak 

 reaching between middle coxae. Scutellum transversely rugose, apical 

 third opaque. Length, 3.8 mm. 



Recorded only from Manumuskin and Lakehurst, N. J., 

 where it was taken in September by Davis. 



II. Ceratocapsus Reuter, 1876, 87. 



Oblong-oval, feebly shining species having the head inserted 

 in thorax to eyes, wider across eyes than apex of pronotum, its 

 front declivent ; vertex with a median longitudinal impressed 

 line ; beak slender, reaching or surpassing middle coxae ; anten- 

 nae stout, shorter than body, joints 2 and 3 of nearly equal 

 thickness, 3 usually stouter than 4, the relative length of all 

 joints variable as to species ; eyes prominent, more so in male, 

 coarsely granulated ; pronotum as in generic key, trapezoidal, 



S6 The principal characters separating Tiryus (Trichia) Kent, from Ceratocapsus 

 Reut., as set forth by Reuter (1876) and Van Duzee (1916a, 212) hold good of the 

 males only. Of the two species included under Tiryus by Van Duzee iioi", 38) one, 

 /iKiiri Hint us, is herewith included under Ceratocapsus. The other. T. elongatus (Uhl.), 

 was described from Colorado and California and mentioned by him, probably in error, 

 i occurring In Florida. No other record of its occurrence in that State can be 

 found and it is not. therefore, treated in this work. 



