SUBFAMILY III. — ORTHOTYLIN^. 837 



that of Hussey who says it is "One of the characteristic Hemip- 

 tera of the black oak association on the dunes of southeastern 

 Michigan. Nymphs were numerous early in July and the first 

 adults were taken July 20." 



897 (1144). Lopidea hesperia (Kirkaldy), 1902b, 252. 



"Mule — Bright red, fusiform, very finely punctured. Head triangu- 

 lar. Eyes piceous, slightly prominent; rostrum piceous, extending to 

 middle coxae. Antennas black, shorter than body; first and second joints 

 slightly dilated ; first as long as head ; second more than twice the length 

 of first; third a little longer than first; fourth much shorter than third. 

 Prothorax with a callus on each side near fore border. Scutellum, legs, 

 membrane and hind wings black. Legs slender. Length of body, 2 x /4 

 lines (4.5 mm.). St. John's Bluff, East Florida. Presented by E. Double- 

 day, Esq." 



The above is the original description of the Capsus coccineus 

 Walker (1873, 93). As the name coccineus was preoccupied, it 

 was changed to hesperia by Kirkaldy and was placed in the 

 genus Lomato pleura by Distant (1904, 109). 



898 ( — ). Lopidea reuteri Knight, 1917c, 459. 



Deep carmine red; scutellum and margins of commissure reddish- 

 fuscous ; corium and cuneus with fuscous marks more narrow than in 

 csesar, sparsely clothed with blackish pubescence; legs black; sternum, 

 ventrals 4 — 6 and genital segment blackish. Antennae as in a of 

 key, joint 1 slightly shorter than width of head, 2 three and three-fourths 

 times as long as 1, 3 two-thirds the length of 2, 4 three-fifths as long as 

 3. Length, 7 mm. 



Ramapo, N. Y., and Hollister, Mo., July 22 (Davis). The 

 known range extends from Massachusetts and New York, west 

 to Missouri and south to Virginia, but as its food plant, witch 

 hazel, is distributed throughout the entire eastern United 

 States and Canada, the range of the insect will probably be 

 found to be almost coextensive. 



899 (1145). Lopidea instabile (Reuter), 1909, 72. 



Elongate, suboval. Bright carmine-red; scutellum in part, clavus 

 except the basal fourth, membrane and inner half of corium blackish-fus- 

 cous; tibiae and tarsi black. Antennae black, joints 1 and 2 thickly clothed 

 with stiff inclined bristle-like hairs ; 1 as long as width of vertex, strongly 

 narrowed at base; 2 gradually thickened from base to middle, thence 

 narrowed to apex, three times longer than 1 ; 3 and 4 thickly clothed with 

 very fine grayish hairs, 3 two-thirds the length of 2, 4 more slender, 

 two-fifths as long as 3. Costal margin very bi-oadly but visibly curved. 

 Length, 5.5 — 6 mm. 



Dunedin, Fla., April 8—20 (W.S.B.). Tarboro and Laurel 

 Hill, N. Car., June — July (Brimley). Ramsey, N. J., July 



