SUBFAMILY III. — ORTHOTYLIN^E. 861 



Hamburg, N. Y., June 6 (I 'an Duzee). Definitely recorded 

 only from Maine, Connecticut and New York. Occurs on cud- 

 weed in woodland pastures. "The pale testaceous color of this 

 insect gives it the appearance of being immature." (Van Dusee). 



938 (in8M). Orthotylus candidatus Van Duzee, 1916b, 124. 

 Elongate, sides subparallel. Color as in key, clothed with minute 



pale pubescence; head and antennae tinged with fulvous, pronotum, scutel- 

 lum and legs with yellow; elytra whitish-yellow, subhyaline, with a vague 

 fuscous line inside the principal vein ; membrane slightly fuscous, cell 

 milky-hyaline, veins brownish; tips of tibia? and tarsi fuscous. Antennae 

 wholly black, male; joint 1 blackish, 2 reddish-brown, female, its apex 

 and all of 3 and 4 fuscous. Vertex with basal carina prominent. Eyes 

 large, oval. Beak reaching base of middle coxae. Pronotum with calli 

 large, their inner margins subcontiguous and basal ones bounded by a 

 slightly curved conspicuous transverse impressed line. Length, 4.3 — 

 5 mm. 



Two Harbors, Minn., Aug. 9 (Minn. Univ. Coll.). Described 

 from Mt. Washington, N. Hamp. Taken in Minnesota only on 

 aspen growing on the edge of bluffs bordering Lake Superior. 



939 (1178%). Orthotylus necopinus Van Duzee, 1916b, 125. 

 Elongate-oval. Head with front black, vertex with base, median 



line and elongate spot each side adjoining eye, greenish;; antennae black, 

 apical joints paler; pronotum with front margin and middle of basal 

 half pale or greenish, rarely wholly black; color of elytra as in key; mem- 

 brane fuscous, veins and a mark near apex of cuneus paler; beak and 

 legs pale brownish-yellow, tarsi blackish; ventrals shining black with 

 median whitish stripe. Eyes very large and prominent. Vertex strongly 

 flattened, the basal carina prominent. Beak reaching base of middle 

 coxae. Pronotum much narrowed in front, two-thirds as long as wide at 

 base, sides concave, disk flattened, basal half finely transversely rugose, 

 calli small but prominent, hind margin broadly concave. Mesoscutum 

 moderately exposed.. Elytra gradually feebly widened from base to 

 cuneus. Length, 6.6 — 6.8 mm. 



Whiteface Mt. trail, N. Y., July 6 (Davis) . Fairbault, Minn., 

 June 12 (Minn. Univ. Coll.). Recorded only from Mt. Wash- 

 ington, N. Hamp., and Buffalo, N. Y. Breeds on yellow birch. 

 Readily known by the large size and dark fuscous-brown color. 



940 (1179%). Orthotylus knighti Van Duzee, 1916b, 121. 



Elongate, slender, sides subparallel. Fuscous-black, sparsely clothed 

 with very fine prostrate yellowish hairs ; male with a small median spot 

 on hind lobe of pronotum and a vague narrow stripe along the outer 

 margins of basal half of corium, dull yellow; female more robust with 

 pale spot and stripe conspicuous, the former covering most of pronotai 

 disk and more or less of the calli, the elytra as in key; membrane trans- 

 lucent fuscous, paler near tips of cuneus; lower surface of head, beak 



