870 FAMILY XXIX. — MIRID^E. 



cence of pronotum much less distinct, very fine or wanting; apical dark 

 portion of hind femora longer and a deeper black. Pronotum longer, the 

 gibbosity of hind lobe with sides more sloping and base more abruptly 

 declivent; basal margin straight. Costal margin distinctly more rounded 

 and less reflexed than in dilatatus; embolium wider, its upper surface 

 transversely rugose. Length, 3.5 — 4 mm. 



Washington, D. C, June 19 — Nov. 2 (Davis and Gerhard). 

 Wilmington, N. Car., Aug. 16 (Brimley). Recorded only from 

 New Jersey, Maryland and District of Columbia. 



955 ( — ). Pycnoderes convexicollis Blatchley, 1926, 166. 



Male — Elongate-oval. Head in great part fuscous, cheeks and a 

 stripe each side of vertex dull yellow; pronotum and scutellum shining 



black with a faint brassy tinge, 

 very sparsely pubescent with 

 fine prostrate hairs ; elytra 

 opaque with a bluish bloom cov- 

 ering most of the surface; cune- 

 us, a large oblong spot near base 

 of embolium and a smaller oval 

 one near its apex, pale yellow; 

 apical half of membrane dusky 

 yellow, its veins and a spot at 

 base dark brown ; femora dark 

 brown to blackish, paler at base, 

 Fig. 185. Male X 9. (Original). tibia? pale brown, yellowish to- 



ward tips, coxae and tarsi yel- 

 lowish, claws fuscous; under surface black, sterna coarsely punctate, 

 ventrals shining, almost smooth, minutely pubescent. Joints 1 and 2 of 

 antennae pale yellow, 1 three-fourths as long as width of vertex, 2 nearly 

 three times as long as 1, 3 and 4 dusky, subequal in length, each about 

 as long as 2. Pronotum with sides and base subequal in length, calli 

 larger and much more prominent, median groove of basal half deeper 

 and lateral impressions better defined than in either of the preceding 

 species; hind margin almost straight, feebly notched at middle. Embolium 

 slightly narrower with margin less curved than in dilatatus and with 

 only a trace of the transverse rugae of that species; membrane surpass- 

 ing abdomen by two-thirds its length. Female — Shorter and more broad- 

 ly oval than male; color much the same. Gibbosity of pronotum higher, 

 with median groove distinctly deeper, the sides and base more abruptly 

 declivent and lateral impressions better defined. Elytra distinctly short- 

 er; embolium slightly wider and more reflexed, its margin more strongly 

 curved; membrane surpassing abdomen by less than one-third its length. 

 Length, male, 3.5—3.8 mm.; female, 3—3.2 mm. (Fig. 185). 



Marion, Putnam, Knox and Posey counties, Ind., April 26 — 

 Sept. 19; swept in numbers from low herbage in dense upland 

 woods and in thickets along the banks of streams. 



