834 FAMILY XXIX. — MIRIDjE. 



dense black pubescence; base of scutellum often with a triangular median 

 spot of similar pubescence; antenna? yellowish, joint 1 with a basal and 

 apical black ring, 2 black at base, its apical portion and all of 3 and 4 

 fuscous-brown; legs yellow, apex of tibiae and tarsi black; joints 1 and 2 

 of beak yellow, 3 and 4 piceous; under surface black, opaque, clothed 

 with pale pubescence. Vertex distinctly wider and more flattened than 

 in our other species. Pronotum shorter with sides less convergent from 

 the base. Length, 5 mm. 



Marshall and Ft. Snelling, Minn., June 19 — July 12 (Minn. 

 Univ. Coll.). Described from Texas. Recorded from New Jer- 

 sey and Colorado. 



II. Lopidea Uhler, 1872, 411. 



Elongate, subparallel, impunctate, almost glabrous species 

 having the head broader across eyes than apex of pronotum, 

 twice as long as broad, its front vertical, vertex subdepressed 

 and with an indistinct median basal carina ; tylus prominent, 

 curved ; eyes rather small, rounded, slightly protuberant, con- 

 tiguous to pronotum, finely facetted ; antennae about two-thirds 

 as long as body, variable in length as to species, joint 1 usually 

 the stoutest, 3 and 4 much more slender than either 1 or 2 ; 

 beak reaching or surpassing middle coxae; pronotum subtrape- 

 zoidal, about one-half wider at base than long, sides sinuate, 

 disk with a vague but evident constriction in front of middle 

 and a transverse ridge in front of calli, basal portion convex, 

 humeral angles rounded, basal margin subtruncate ; scutellum 

 triangular, equilateral ; elytra entire, cuneus moderately de- 

 flexed. Males with left clasper broad, more or less flattened, 

 tip bifurcate. 



The genus is closely allied to Ilnacora, but the species are 

 stouter of body with color never green as there. The genus 

 Lomatopleura Reut. has been united with Lopidea by Knight 

 (1917c, 455) as he found the antennal characters upon which 

 it was chiefly based would not hold good in some of the western 

 forms. He has described 30 or more new species of Lopidea 

 since the Van Duzee Catalogue was issued, basing them mainly 

 upon the differences in the genital claspers of the males. The 

 student who wishes to identify them along this line is referred 

 to his papers on the genus as cited in the bibliography. Of the 

 50 species described from North America up to the present 

 writing, 18 are either recorded or known from the eastern 

 states. The original descriptions of these are widely scattered 



