836 FAMILY XXIX. — MIRID/E. 



j. General color dull clay-yellow. 905. staphyle^e. 



jj. General color bright red. 905a. var. sanguinea. 



//. Pronotum with a more or less distinct blackish cross-bar on or 

 just behind the calli, sometimes almost wholly blackish; middle 

 and hind coxae and trochanters in great part or wholly black, 

 front ones sometimes pale; head with front in great part black, 

 rarely with two distinct black stripes. 

 A\ Basal half of pronotum pale or but feebly tinged with fuscous. 

 /. General color dark red; elytra rarely tinged with fuscous; fe- 

 male with embolium usually pale yellow; host plants, elm, 

 yarrow and probably goldenrod. 906. heidemanni. 



//. General color orange-yellow; apical halves of clavus and elytra 

 always heavily tinged with fuscous; host plant, false indigo, 

 Amorpha fruticosa L. 907. amorph.<e. 



kk. Pronotum, except narrow front and side margins, heavily tinged 

 with fuscous ; general color fuscous-brown, the narrow costal 

 margin and inner half of cuneus usually orange-red ; host 

 plants the balsam poplar, Poplus balsa mi '/' era L., and cotton- 

 wood, P. deltoides Marsh. 908. CUNEATA. 

 ee. Smaller, length less than 5.8 mm. 

 m. General color red or orange-yellow. 

 ». Pronotum wholly red; coxa? pale yellow; embolium of female 

 pale translucent yellow; host plant, rough-leaved goldenrod, 

 Solidago rugosa Mill. 909. media. 

 nv. Pronotum with calli and base fuscous; coxa? fuscous; embolium 

 of female concolorous with corium; host plant, wild and culti- 

 vated phlox. 910. davisi. 

 mm. General color black or fuscous-brown. 



o. Smaller, length, 4.8 — 5 mm.; legs pale fuscous, basal half of 



femora and coxae straw-yellow with a pinkish tinge; host plant, 



honey locust, Gleditsia triacanthos L. 911. incurva. 



oo. Larger, length, 5.7 mm.; legs black, trochanters and coxae paler; 



host plant, black willow, Salix nigra Marsh. 912. salicis. 



896 (1143). Lopidea C.ESAR (Reuter), 1876, 67. 



Deep carmine-red; tylus, joints 1 and 2 of antennae, tibiae and genital 

 region black; two vague stripes on front of head, base of vertex, mem- 

 brane and femora fuscous-brown; scutellum and inner apical half of 

 clavus often slightly tinged with fuscous. Joint 1 of antennae stout, 

 narrowed at base, about as long as width of head ; 2 densely clothed 

 with short stiff inclined black hairs, three and a half times as long as 1, 

 the apical half tapering from the middle toward apex; 3 and 4 finely 

 pubescent with grayish hairs, 3 three-fifths as long as 2, 4 more slender 

 than and two-fifths the length of 3. Pronotum and scutellum smooth, 

 glabrous; clavus and corium very finely and sparsely pubescent, finely 

 rugose. Length, 7 — 8 mm. 



Ft. Montgomery, N. Y., July 26 (Paris) . The recorded range 

 extends from New England west to Michigan and Colorado and 

 southwest to North Carolina. The only mention of its habits is 



