842 FAMILY XXIX. — MIRID^E. 



Joint 1 of antennae subequal in length to width of vertex, one-third as 

 long as 2; 3 two-thirds the length of 2; 4 one-third as long as 3. Female 

 with the embolium and outer third of cuneus pale translucent yellow. 

 Length, 5.6—5.7 mm. (Fig. 182). 



Marion Co., Ind. ; June 30 (//'. 5\ B.). Swannanoa and Aber- 

 deen, N. Car., June (Brimley). Described from Indiana. The 

 recorded range extends from Quebec and New England west to 

 North Dakota, Colorado and Kansas and south to New Jersey, 

 but many of the records are doubtful as to identity. For ex- 

 maple, Prof. Uhler once identified for me as media what is now 

 recognized as confluens, and the name media which he made the 

 type of the genus, served for years as a "catch-all" for almost 

 all specimens of Lopidea taken from Colorado eastward. In 

 founding the genus (1872, 411) and again (1878, 406) Uhler 

 mentioned his robinea, described in 1861, as a variety of media, 

 whereas if it is a variety of anything it is confluens. It would 

 not be surprising, therefore, if confluens was the species he had 

 in hand and therefore the generic type. However, Say's 

 description will fit any one of several species since described 

 more in detail, and calls for a species "one-fourth of an inch 

 (6.2 mm.) in length to tip of hemelytra," whereas what Knight 

 calls media is smaller with length as above given. 



910 (— ). Lopidea davisi Knight, 1917c, 458. 



Elongate-oblong, more robust than media. General color reddish- 

 orange; antennas, tylus, front of head and legs black; calli and base of 

 pronotum, scutellum, clavus, inner half of corium and membrane dark 

 fuscous-brown ; under surface with middle fuscous-brown to black, sides 

 pale. Joint 1 of antennae slightly shorter than width of vertex; 2 three 

 and a fourth times longer than 1, 3 two-thirds the length of 2, 4 two- 

 fifths as long as 3. Female more robust than male, with costal margin 

 of elytra very slightly but visibly curved. Length, 5.5 — 5.7 mm. 



Marion, Knox and Posey counties, Ind., June 19 — Sept. 19; 

 swept from Phlox divaricata L. growing in dense wooded ravines ; 

 also taken from the garden phlox, P. paniculata L. The known 

 range extends from New York west to Minnesota and Arkan- 

 sas and south to Virginia. "A serious pest on cultivated Phlox 

 and may very well be called the phlox plant bug" {Knight) . 



911 (— ). Lopidea incurva Knight, 1918, 214. 



Fuscous-brown, often with a reddish tinge; cheeks, lorse, median 

 stripe on vertex, narrow front and side margins of pronotum, embolium 

 and outer margin of cuneus reddish-yellow; membrane, antenna?, beak 

 and tarsi dark fuscous. Joint 1 of antenna? two-thirds as long as width 



