830 



FAMILY XXIX. — MIRID^E. 



subequal thereto, female; 2 slender at base, feebly thickened and dusky 

 apically, nearly four times longer than 1 ; 3 and 4 brownish, 3 slightly 

 less than half the length of 2, 4 one-fifth shorter than 3. Beak reaching 

 hind margins of middle coxa?. Length, 3.7 — 4 mm. 



Ithaca, N. Y., July 26 (Minn. Univ. Co/1.) 

 New York, where it occurs on willow. 



Known only from 



Tribe VI. SYSTELLONOTINI Knight, 1923, 497. 



This tribe, as characterized in the key, p. 796, is represented 

 in the eastern states by a single genus. 



I. Sericophanes Reuter, 1876, 79. 



Small, elongate, slender, subglabrous species having the head 

 large, its width across the eyes but slightly narrower than base 

 of pronotum, front subvertical, vertex margined behind, 

 merged with the tylus in front ; beak reaching hind coxae ; an- 

 tennae slender, nearly as long as body, all the joints subequal 

 in thickness; pronotum (macropterous form) campanulate, as 

 wide at base as long, the base nearly twice as wide as apex, 

 disk with sides feebly sinuate, basal portion convex, declivent 

 forward, hind margin truncate, basal angles prominent ; elytra 



Fig. 180. Above, macropterous female at left, brachypterous female at middle, 

 male at right. Below, abdomen of macropterous female at left : side view of braehyp- 

 terous female at middle; male abdomen at extreme right. (After Osborn i . 



