SUBFAMILY III. — ORTHOTYLIX.-E. 



translucent, the margins and base adjoining cuneus paler; legs yellow, 

 hind femora often reddish-brown ; under surface pale to dark brown, 

 shining: pleura fuscous-brown. Antennae stout, half the length of body: 

 joints 1 — 3 yellowish. 1 three-fourths as long as width of vertex: 2 

 thickly pubescent, more than three times the length of 1 : 3 and 4 as 

 thick as apex of 2. 3 one-half the length of 2; 4 and apex of 3 fuscous- 

 brown. 4 one-half as long as 3. Beak reaching apex of middle coxae. 

 Pronotum and elytra distinctly, finely, sparsely punctate. Length. 

 — 1.2 mm. 



Starke. Marion and Posey counties, Ind., July 17 — Sept. 6 ; 

 beaten from ash and wild grape (W.S.B.). Staten Island. X. 

 Y.. and Jamesburg. X. J.. July (/'.:). Recorded from San- 

 ford and Crescent City. Fla. Ranges from Ontario and Xew 

 England west to Xorth Dakota and Colorado, and southwest to 

 Florida and Texas, but some of the records doubtless belong 

 to other species. Uhler says that in Maryland it occurs abun- 

 dantly in June and July on Crata s; also on willows as late as 

 the middle of October. 



885 (1140). Ceratocapsus setosus Reuter. 1909, 70. 



Male — Elongate-oval. Dark chestnut-brown, thinly clothed with 

 very fine pubescence and with a few scattered suberect yellowish hairs : 

 head, basal portion of hind margin of pronotum, commissure and 

 embolium usually paler ; membrane uniform dusky translucent ; legs 

 greenish-yellow: under surface fuscous-brown, the genital region paler. 

 Beak reaching first ventral. Antenna? slender, three-fourths the length 

 of body; joints 1 and 2 yellow, 2 as long as head and pronotum united; 

 3 and 4 fuscous. 3 two-fifths the length of 2; 4 one-half the length of 3. 

 Pronotum finely transversely rugose, finely, unevenly but distinctly 

 punctate, sides straight, basal angle obtuse. Elytra entire, finely, closely 

 and rather deeply punctate. Length. 3.5 — 3.8 mm. Female — Ovate, 

 gradually widened from head backward. Elytra reaching apex of abdo- 

 men, their tips separately rounded; clavus scarcely distinct from corium; 

 cuneus absent, membrane very short. Antenna? longer than body. 

 Length. 2.5 mm. 



Marion and Knox counties. Ind.. June 3 — Oct. 30 ; swept from 

 herbage along the alluvial banks of streams. Dunedin and 

 Sanford, Fla.. Nov. 26 — April 4. Ranges from Xew Jersey 

 west to Indiana and southwest to Florida. Recorded also from 

 California. The only previous Florida station records are Lake 

 Worth and Atlantic Beach. 



886 (1135). Ceratocapsus punctulatds (Reuter), 1876, 82. 



Male — Elongate, slender, sides subparallel. Pale brownish-yellow, 

 sparsely clothed with long, inclined yellowish hairs : cuneus in great part 

 reddish; membrane pale translucent, iridescent, apical half darker; legs 



