SUBFAMILY III. — ORTHOTYLIN^E. 839 



1 ; 3 and 4 clothed with a very short pale pubescence, 3 three-f oui'ths the 

 length of 2, 4 two-fifths as long as 3. Length, 6 — 6.5 mm. 



Palos Park, 111., July 2; Anoka Co., Minn., July 6 (Gerhard). 

 Recorded by Knight from Minnesota, North Dakota, Manitoba 

 and Saskatchewan. In Anoka County, Minn., he found it so 

 numerous in July in spots that the host plant, Lathyrus venosus 

 Muhl., was largely killed. As this plant occurs in the northern 

 third of Indiana the bug will probably be found in that region. 

 In the Illinois specimens at hand both sexes have the embolium 

 and outer third of cuneus pale translucent yellow, not the 

 females alone, as stated by Knight. 



903 (1149). Lopidea robini^e (Uhler) , 1861, 24. 



Dull orange- or clay-yellow; tylus, usually two stripes on vertex, 

 scutellum, clavus, inner apical half of corium and entire membrane fus- 

 cous; legs fuscous, the coxae and basal halves of femora dull yellow; 

 under surface orange- to clay-yellow, the middle of ventrals usually dark- 

 er; antennae and beak dark fuscous-brown to black, the segments of the 

 former of the same relative length as in confluens. Length, 6.5 — 6.8 mm. 



Vermilion, Marion, Putnam and Knox counties, Ind., July 

 17 — Aug. 15 ; probably occurs on the black locust wherever that 

 tree is found in the State. Washington, D. C, July (Gerhard). 

 Its known or recorded range extends from Ontario and New 

 England west to Indiana and southwest to North Carolina, 

 though the records are few. 



904 (— ). Lopidea sayi Knight, 1918, 212. 



"Mule — Slightly smaller than staphylete, but very similar in colora- 

 tion, the antennae being more nearly linear; bright yellow to light orange, 

 the scutellum and more or less on each side of commissure, fuscous; base 

 of head and each side of median line of front, tylus, rostrum, antennae, 

 membrane, femora and tibiae, black. Sternum and sometimes part of the 

 venter, fuscous; genital claspers distinctive of the species. Female — Very 

 similar to the male but with more fuscous and less orange in the yellow. 

 Length, 6.1 mm.; width, 2.1 mm." (Knight) . 



The above is the original description. Described from 

 Brown's Ferry on Savannah River, S. Car., and Plummer's 

 Island, Md. 



905 ( — ). Lopidea staphyle^e Knight, 1917c, 460. 



Dull clay-yellow; calli, narrow base of pronotum, scutellum, apical 

 two-thirds of clavus, membrane and inner half of corium more or less 

 tinged with fuscous ; antennae, tylus and two stripes on vertex, dark 

 brown to blackish; legs and beak in great part blackish-fuscous, coxae, 

 trochanters and basal joint of beak yellowish; under surface dull orange- 

 yellow, the mesosternum and genital region often darker. Joint 1 of 



