858 FAMILY XXIX. — MIRID^E. 



head, calli, legs and lower surface somewhat paler; membrane pale trans- 

 lucent, strongly iridescent, veins green; tips of tarsi and of beak black. 

 Head more pointed than in allied forms. Beak reaching between hind 

 coxa?. Pronotum subdepressed, sides strongly oblique, feebly concave, the 

 disk therefore much narrowed in front, transverse impression behind 

 calli conspicuous. Apex of abdomen scarcely reaching base of cuneus, 

 male; almost reaching its tip, female. "Dextral hook of male genital 

 short, straight, ligulate, its tip incurved and subacute; sinistral hook 

 long, curved in almost a semicircle, its apex slender, acuminate." Length, 

 4.8 — 6 mm. 



Lake Tahoe, Cal. (type locality), July 19 (Van Dusee). Re- 

 corded also from Salamanca, N. Y., and Phoenix, Ariz. Host 

 plant unknown. 



935 (1175%). Orthotylus viridis Van Duzee, 1916b, 103. 



Elongate, sides subparallel. Color a nearly uniform green; head, 

 front lobe of pronotum, scutellum, legs and under surface usually rather 

 strongly tinged with yellow; costal margin often whitish; membrane 

 whitish-hyaline, lightly tinged with fuscous, veins yellowish or pale 

 green; tips of tarsi blackish. Joints 1, 3 and 4 of antennae pale- to fus- 

 cous-brown, 2 yellowish ; 1 as long as width of vertex, 2 three and a half 

 times as long as 1, 3 three-fourths the length of 2, 4 one-third as long as 

 3. Eyes very large, globose. Beak reaching middle coxae. Basal carina 

 of vertex straight, acute. Pronotum much narrowed in front, its length 

 two-thirds its basal width ; calli large, not prominent. Length, 4.6 — 5 mm. 



Guilford, Conn., July 13 (Walden). Ranges from that state 

 west to South Dakota and south to North Carolina. Breeds on 

 willow. 



936 ( — ). Orthotylus basicornis Knight, 1923, 515. 



Elongate-oval. Head, beak, front lobe of pronotum, tip of scutellum 

 and legs dull yellow; hind lobe of pronotum, elytra and under surface 

 pale green fading to greenish-yellow; membrane pale translucent, the 

 veins greenish; tip of beak, joints 1 and 3 of tarsi and claws, fuscous- 

 brown; upper surface, including costal margins, with conspicuous pubes- 

 cence of rather long and coarse inclined yellowish hairs. Joint 1 of 

 antenna? fuscous-brown to blackish, slightly longer than width of vertex; 

 2 pale reddish-brown, three times as long as 1 ; 3 and 4 fuscous-brown, 3 

 one-half the length of 2, 4 three-fifths as long as 3. Pronotum with calli 

 prominent, merged at middle to form a wide collar-like ridge in front of 

 the transverse impression. Length, 5.8 — 6.5 mm. 



Marion Co., Ind., June 19 — July 15 ; beaten in numbers from 

 its host plant, the sandbar willow, Salix fluviatilis Nutt. The 

 known range extends from Quebec and New York west to 

 Minnesota and Illinois, but the distribution is probably coexten- 

 sive with its host plant. 



