SUBFAMILY III. — ORTHOTYLIN^E. 847 



surpassing abdomen by one-half the length of membrane. Brachypterous 

 female — Suboval. Black, shining; elytra whitish-translucent, with base 

 and cross-bar on apical third fuscous. Head and abdomen subglobose. 

 Second antennal strongly clavate. Elytra oblong, narrowed at base, their 

 tips upcurved. Length, 3.2 — 4.3 mm. 



Fritton and Gimingham, Norfolk, England, August (British 

 Mus. Coll.). An introduced European species, known in this 

 country from Glen House, N. Hamp. ; Parry Sound, Ontario, and 

 Colorado. 



II. Blepharidopterus Kolenati, 1845, 107. 



Elongate, narrow, somewhat delicate species having the head 

 wider across eyes than long, its front vertical ; beak reaching 

 hind coxae; antennae longer than body; pronotum subcampanu- 

 late, broader at base than long, humeral angles elevated, hind 

 margin concave; scutellum as in Globiceps; elytra entire, longer 

 than abdomen, inner half of clavus flat, outer half deflexed to 

 corium, cuneus long, triangular, feebly deflexed ; hind tarsi with 

 joints 2 and 3 subequal, 1 shorter. One palaearctic European 

 species occurs in our territory. 



917 ( — ). Blepharidopterus angulatus (Fallen), 1807, 76. 



Elongate, narrow, subparallel. Green or yellowish-green, fading to 

 dull yellow, sparsely clothed with fine suberect dusky hairs ; hind angles 

 of pronotum black; elytra subtranslucent, clavus piceous along the com- 

 missure, its disk and that of corium with numerous minute dark green 

 dots; membrane whitish-hyaline, iridescent, darker between tips of cells 

 and apex, veins green ; legs greenish-yellow, knees of tibia? black, tarsi 

 brown. Joint 1 of antennas yellowish, base and sometimes apex black, two- 

 thirds as long as head and pronotum united ; 2 more than twice as long 

 as 1, yellowish, with a black ring near base, apex brownish; 3 and 4 

 piceous-brown, 3 almost as long as 2, 4 one-third the length of 3. Length, 

 5 — 5.5 mm. 



Cheshunt, England, Aug. 29 (British Mus. Coll.). Known in 

 this country only from Halifax, Nova Scotia. Common in Eng- 

 land on alders in July and August. 



III. Heterocordylus Fieber, 1858, 316. 



Elongate, rather robust species having the head triangular, 

 slightly wider across eyes than apex of pronotum, its front 

 declivent ; beak reaching hind coxse ; antennae shorter than 

 body ; eyes large, prominent ; pronotum trapezoidal, sides 

 straight, disk but slightly declivent from the base forward, 

 hind margin truncate ; mesoscutum exposed ; elytra entire, sur- 



