SUBFAMILY IV. — BRYOCORINiE. 869 



c. Embolium with a distinct apical or subapical pale spot; costal mar- 



gin of elytra feebly curved; pronotum thickly pubescent; length, 

 3.2 mm. 953. quadrimaculatus. 



cc. Embolium with subapical pale spot very small or wanting; costal 

 margin of elytra strongly curved; pronotum with pubescence 

 scarcely evident; length, 3.5 — 4 mm. 954. dilatatus. 



bb. Second antennal distinctly longer than width of head across eyes; 

 all the femora in part or wholly blackish-brown ; veins of mem- 

 brane dark brown or blackish. 



d. Joint 2 of antennae wholly pale; tibia? pale brown; length, 3 — 3.8 



mm. 955. convexicollis. 



dd. Joint 2 of antenna? with apical half fuscous ; tibiae pale to yellow- 

 ish; length, 4 mm. 956. infuscatus. 

 «a. Smaller, length less than 3 mm.; second antennal shorter than width 

 of head across eyes. 

 e. Pronotal disk evenly arched without median sulcus; embolium with 

 pale spot only at apex. 957. balli. 

 ee. Pronotal disk bilobed by a median sulcus ; embolium with distinct 

 pale spot only at base. 

 /. Scutellum convex ; mesoscutum not exposed ; cell of membrane 

 without a pale spot. 958. medius. 

 //. Scutellum much flatter; mesoscutum exposed; cell of membrane 

 with a large clear spot on apical half near cuneus. 



959. DRAKEI. 



953 (1078). Pycnoderes quadrimaculatus Guerin, 1857, 169. 



Oblong-oval. Head dull yellow, vertex and front with three narrow 

 black lines ; pronotum and scutellum black, shining, rather thickly clothed 

 with fine prostrate grayish hairs; clavus and corium black, the latter 

 sometimes brown, both thinly covered with a bluish bloom; corium with 

 an elongate subbasal spot and a smaller apical or subapical one pale 

 yellow; cuneus and membrane pale translucent, the inner basal angles of 

 both darker. Antennae pale yellow, joint 1 slightly shorter than width of 

 vertex, about one-half the length of 2; 3 and 4 fuscous. Pronotum 

 shorter with hind portion more convex, its median groove deeper and 

 longer than in dilatatus; basal margin emarginate at middle. Embolium 

 narrower, and costal margin less rounded than in dilatatus. Length, 

 3—3.2 mm. 



Phoenix, Ariz. (Gerhard). A neotropical species described 

 from Cuba recorded from Biscayne Bay, Fla., and ranging 

 southwest and south to Arizona, California, Mexico and the 

 West Indies. Recorded by Van Duzee (1917) from New Hamp- 

 shire and Massachusetts, but not included in Parshley's "Hem- 

 iptera of New England." 



954 (1079). Pycnoderes dilatatus Reuter, 1909, 3. 



Larger and more broadly oval than quadrimaculatus. Color much 

 the same, the apical pale spot of embolium very small or wanting; pubes- 



