852 FAMILY XXIX. — MIRID^E. 



gin of corium blackish, the latter ciliate; cuneus tinged with reddish, its 

 outer margin fuscous; membrane blackish with a subtriangular white 

 spot opposite tip of cuneus, veins reddish-brown; legs yellowish-white, 

 joint 3 of tarsi and claws brown; ventrals black. Joints 1 and 2 of an- 

 tennae black, thickly pilose with black hairs; 1 cylindrical, as long as 

 head, 2 fusiform, flattened on sides, stouter and three times longer than 

 1; 3 and 4 fuscous, pale at base, much more slender, united about one- 

 half the length of 2, 4 three-fifths as long as 3. Pronotum finely trans- 

 versely rugose. Length, 4.5 — 5 mm. 



Horcham Road, Sussex and Muswell Hill, England, July — 

 August (British Mus. Coll.). Recorded in this country only 

 from Honeoye Falls, N. Y., where it was taken in a nursery. 

 In England it is said to be common in summer on nettles and 

 other plants along hedges. 



VIII. Mecomma Fieber, 1858, 313. 



Elongate, sides subparallel, male, oblong-oval, female ; head 

 wider across eyes than long, vertex feebly convex, its base not 

 carinate ; beak reaching hind coxae ; eyes large, prominent ; 

 scutellum triangular, equilateral, with transverse channel near 

 base ; elytra of male entire, surpassing abdomen, clavus con- 

 vex, corium flat; of female, short, reaching middle of abdo- 

 men, their tips rounded, the corium only present ; hind tarsi 

 with joint 2 longest, 1 shorter than 3. 



But one species occurs in our territory, the records of M. 

 ambulans (Fall.) from British America belonging to gilvipcs 

 (Stal), as pointed out by Knight. 



926 (1188). Mecomma gilvipes (Stal), 1858, 187. 



Male — Black, elytra in great part dull yellowish-translucent, feebly 

 tinged with fuscous, clavus more strongly fuscous ; membrane pale 

 hyaline, veins pale brown; antennae fuscous-brown, thickly pilose; legs 

 dull yellow. Pronotum campanulate, broader at base than long, its hind 

 margin slightly concave, exposing the mesoscutum. Elytra surpassing 

 abdomen by the full length of membrane, their costal margins finely 

 ciliate. Female — Black, shining; elytra dull yellow; legs pale straw- 

 yellow. Antennae as long as body, joint 1 and base of 2 yellow, remainder 

 piceous; 1 as long as width of vertex, 2 three and one-half times as long 

 as 1, feebly thickened toward apex; 3 three-fourths the length of 2, 4 

 three-fifths as long as 3. Pronotum subquadrate, front angles rounded, 

 calli large, rather low, separated by a shallow fovea. Elytra obovate, 

 reaching fourth dorsal, their tips broadly obliquely rounded. Length, 

 male, 4.3—4.5 mm.; female, 2.7—3 mm. (Fig. 176, a). 



Machias, Me., July 22; Wanakena, N. Y., Aug. 3 (British Mus. 

 Coll.). Selkirk Mountains, British Columbia, Aug. 9 (Minn. 



