822 FAMILY XXIX. — MIRIDjE. 



hh. Upper surface sparsely clothed with fine short pubescence, some- 

 times with a few scattering - long hairs on scutellum and elytra. 

 i. Third antennal not as long as width of vertex plus dorsal width 

 of an eye; upper surface uniformly yellowish. 881. luteus. 

 ii. Third antennal longer than width of vertex plus dorsal width of 

 an eye. 

 j. Pronotum reddish; basal half of elytra paler than apical half; 

 legs yellowish; third antennal shorter than width of head 

 across eyes; length, 3.4 mm. 882. vicinus. 



jj. Pronotum blackish ; elytra fuscous-brown with a small pale 

 elongate area at basal angles of corium and embolium; legs 

 brownish-yellow to dark reddish-brown ; third antennal sub- 

 equal in length to width of head; length, 4.4 — 4.7 mm. 



883. NIGELLUS. 



873 (1137). Ceratocapsus lutescens Reuter, 1876, 87. 



Oblong-oval. Color above and below a uniform pale straw-yellow, 

 shining; head, and often the front margin and a line behind front angles 

 of pronotum, joints 3 and 4 and apex of joint 2 of antennae, blood-red. 

 Joint 1 of antenna? subequal in length to width of vertex, 2 nearly four 

 times as long as 1, 3 two-fifths the length of 2, 4 one-fourth shorter than 

 3. Length, 4.3 — 4.5 mm. 



Dunedin, Fla., April 11 — 23; swept from ferns in dense wet 

 hammocks and taken at porch light. Recorded from Long 

 Island, N. Y., Estero and Sevenoaks, Fla., Kansas and Texas. 

 Van Duzee took it at Estero from "low bushes of a broad leaved 

 oak." 



874 (1142). Ceratocapsus fasciatus (Uhler), 1877, 421. 



Pale to dark reddish-brown, thickly clothed with very fine prostrate 

 yellowish hairs; elytra with a broad pale yellow bar crossing their entire 

 width just behind scutellum; embolium pale yellow, cuneus tinged with 

 reddish; membrane pale translucent; antenna? and legs pale reddish- to 

 straw-yellow, densely finely pubescent; under surface reddish-brown shin- 

 ing, genital region darker, ventrals thinly clothed with long prostrate 

 yellow hairs. Beak reaching hind coxa?. Antenna? stout, two-thirds the 

 length of body, joint 1 two-thirds as long as width of vertex; 2 visibly 

 thickened from base to apex, three times as long as 1 ; 3 and 4 as thick 

 as apex of 2, 3 one-half the length of 2, 4 fusiform, two-thirds as long 

 as 3. Pronotum, scutellum and elytra densely minutely scabrous or 

 shagreened. Length, 2.8 — 3.2 mm. 



Staten Island, N. Y., July 8 (Davis). Ranges from Ontario 

 and New England west to Colorado and Kansas. Doubtless 

 to be found in Indiana. Occurs on alder and hickory. 



875 (1138). Ceratocapsus modestus (Uhler), 1887b, 69. 



Elongate-oval. Dull brownish-yellow, very finely and sparsely 

 clothed with yellowish pubescence; pronotum, scutellum and apical half 



