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FAMILY XXIX. — MIRID^E. 



passing abdomen, cuneus long, triangular, but little deflexed; 

 hind tarsi with joints 2 and 3 subequal, 1 two-thirds the length 

 of 2. One species occurs in our territory. 



918 (1127). Heterocordylus malinus Reuter, 1909, 71. 



Dark red to fuscous-black, thinly clothed with white closely appressed 



scales and very fine yellowish hairs. Males usually fuscous-black with 



basal angles of pronotum and elytra 

 red, embolium and cuneus with a red- 

 dish tinge; antennae, legs and under 

 surface dark fuscous-brown, the ven- 

 trals tinged with reddish. Females 

 usually with head, apical half of 

 pronotum, scutellum, inner half of 

 clavus and membrane fuscous-black, 

 remainder of upper surface red; 

 sometimes nearly wholly fuscous. 

 Joint 1 of antennae subclavate, sub- 

 equal in length to width of vertex; 2 

 subfusiform, clothed with bristle-like 

 hairs, three times longer than 1 ; 3 and 

 4 linear, clothed with short fine brown 

 hairs, 3 two-fifths the length of 2, 4 

 one-half as long as 3. Last ventral of 

 male with a deep V-shaped notch. 

 Length, 5.7—6.5 mm. (Fig. 183). 



Vermilion, Fountain, Marion 

 and Harrison counties, Ind., May 10 — June 17. Beaten in num- 

 bers from the flowers and foliage of the large-fruited thorn or 

 red-haw, Cratcegus punctatus Jacq. Henderson, Ky., June 1 {Mar- 

 shall) . Recorded only from New Hampshire, New York and 

 Glen Ellyn, 111. Occurs with Lygidca mendax Reut. on apple trees 

 in New York, often doing much damage by deforming with 

 their punctures a large proportion of the fruit. 



IV. Hyalochloria Reuter, 1907b, 18. 



Small oval, greenish hyaline species having the head nar- 

 rower than base of pronotum, its front vertical, truncate above, 

 not produced in front of eyes ; vertex broadly concave between 

 the eyes and with an impressed median line, its basal margin 

 curved, feebly carinate ; antennae very slender, pilose, half the 

 length of body ; pronotum subtrapezoidal, twice as wide at base 

 as long, sides feebly sinuate, apex one-half the width of base, 

 disk with a transverse impression behind the calli which are 

 united at middle to form a preapical collar-like ridge, hind mar- 



