864 FAMILY XXIX. — MIRID^E. 



paler; legs dull yellow, the tarsi and hind femora darker; under surface 

 dark brown, the genital region paler. Antennae fuscous-brown, apex of 

 joint 2 darker; joint 1 as long as head, 2 three and a half times longer 

 than 1, 3 and 4 united about two-thirds the length of 2. Eyes very large, 

 coarsely granulated. Pronotum relatively broad, calli large, rather low, 

 hind lobe moderately convex, distinctly shagreened. Elytra broad, sur- 

 passing abdomen by one-half the length of membrane. Female — Color as 

 in key, the broad side margins and median line of pronotum and basal 

 half of both corium and clavus dull greenish-yellow. Membrane sur- 

 passing abdomen by only one-fourth its length. Length, 5.6 — 6 mm. 



Honeoye Falls, N. Y., June 27 (Davis and Gerhard) . Recorded 

 only from Connecticut and New York, occurring on brittle-wil- 

 low. "The large size and maculated membrane will distinguish 

 this species. It has somewhat the aspect of Lopidea cuneata Van 

 D. or of a Plagiognathus." ( I 'an Dusee) . 



947 (1175%). Orthotylus modestus Van Duzee, 1916b, 109. 



Female — Elongate-oval. Pale green to yellowish, deeper green along 

 the claval suture; upper surface with gray pubescence; head tinged with 

 fulvous, a brown dot at base of tylus; pronotum with a lunate brown or 

 fuscous spot behind each callus, these often united to form a transverse 

 stripe, the hind margin with a broader fuscous bar; mesoscutum fulvous; 

 clavus, except at base and apex, and a large spot on inner apical angle of 

 corium fuscous; membrane fuscous, veins pale, their base darker; legs 

 and under surface pale tinged with greenish, tips of tarsi dark. Male — 

 Sides subparallel, color mostly black. Joint 1 of antenna? black, 2 brown, 

 paler at base, 3 and 4 fuscous. Pronotum with sides nearly straight, sur- 

 face transversely rugose; calli low, ill defined. Abdomen passing tip of 

 cuneus. Tibial spines longer than in allied species. Length, 4.5 — 5 mm. 



Batavia, N. Y., July 19 (Minn Univ. Coll.). Known only from 

 New York and Pennsylvania, where it breeds on willow. A 

 variety immaculatus Knight, uniformly green with only the 

 membrane fuscous, is known from New York and Ottawa, 

 Ontario. 



948 (1176). Orthotylus dorsalis (Provancher), 1872, 104. 



Male — Elongate, subparallel. General color black, median line of 

 pronotum often paler; cuneus, embolium, base and a ray along radial 

 vein of corium, greenish-translucent; membrane fuscous, veins paler; 

 legs green, coxae paler. Female — More suboval. Pale green to greenish- 

 yellow with pale and dark markings as in key, under surface in both 

 sexes with a black stripe along sides. Antennae black, male, tinged with 

 fuscous, female; joint 1 as long as head, 2 three and one-half times as 

 long as 1, 3 three-fifths the length of 2, 4 one-half as long as 3. Vertex 

 but slightly broader than eye, male, nearly twice as broad, female. 

 Pronotum much narrowed in front, its length two-thirds its basal width, 

 sides distinctly sinuate, disk vaguely transversely rugose; calli large, 

 oval, prominent, connected in front, well separated by a depressed area 



