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of cuneus and apical half of corium usually heavily tinged with fuscous; 

 membrane pale at base, apical half and central area between cells fus- 

 cous-hyaline; legs pale yellowish-brown, front coxa? reddish to piceous; 

 ventrals reddish-brown to blackish, shining, clothed with yellowish hairs. 

 Joint 1 of antennae yellowish, fuscous at base, one-fifth longer than 

 width of vertex; 2 yellowish, darker toward apex, four times as long as 

 1 ; 3 and 4 fuscous, 3 three-fifths as long as 2, 4 one-half the length of 

 3. Beak reaching middle of hind coxae. Pronotum vaguely alutaceous, 

 side margins slightly sinuate, calli evident but vague. Scutellum finely 

 transversely rugose. Length, 4.5 — 5 mm. 



St. Anthony Park, Minn., July 5 — 6, taken at light (Minn. 

 Univ. Coll.). A species of northern distribution ranging from 

 Quebec and New England west to South Dakota. 



878 (1141). Ceratocapsus minutus (Uhler), 1893, 713. 



Head pale yellow, middle of front piceous, tylus dusky; pronotum, 

 scutellum and elytra dark brown, strongly shining, clothed with minute 

 golden pubescence; embolium pale yellow, notch and inner margin of 

 cuneus pale; membrane dusky, paler at base; legs ivory-white; ventrals 

 chestnut brown, shining, genital region paler. Joints 1 and 2 of antennae 

 brown; 2 paler at base, as long as pronotum plus the width of an eye; 3 

 and 4 more slender, pale yellow, of equal thickness throughout. Head 

 with vertex wider than apex of pronotum, highly polished. Pronotum 

 and elytra obsoletely punctate, the former with side margins slightly 

 sinuate. Length, 2.5 — 3 mm. 



Described from St. Vincent. Recorded by Van Duzee (1917, 

 382) from Florida and Kansas, without definite station or cita- 

 tion to the Florida record. 



879 ( — ). Ceratocapsus pilosus Knight, 1923, 526. 



Dark reddish or chestnut-brown, with pubescence as in key; a broad 

 cross-bar across middle of elytra and a small spot opposite base of 

 cuneus dull yellow; membrane dusky, yellowish at base; front and 

 middle legs, base of hind femora and ventrals 1 — 3 greenish-yellow; re- 

 mainder of hind legs and under surface chestnut-brown. Antenna? with 

 joint 1 and basal half of 2 yellowish, remainder reddish-brown, finely 

 pubescent; 1 four-fifths the length of width of vertex, 2 three and two- 

 thirds times the length of 1, 3 two-thirds the length of 2, 4 three-fourths 

 as long as 3. Beak reaching first ventral. Head and pronotum shining, 

 without evident punctures. Scutellum minutely transversely strigose. 

 Elytra very finely shallowly punctate. Length, 3.4 — 3.6 mm. 



Lake Co., Ind., June 30 (W.S.B.). Pentwater, Mich., and 

 Willow Springs, 111., July 8 — 26 (Gerhard). Recorded only 

 from Massachusetts and Minnesota, where it was taken on 

 hop-hornbeam, Ostrya virginiana (Mill.) and bur oak, Quercus 

 macrocarpa Michx. Apparently differs from C. fasciatus only in 

 the character of the pubescence. 



