874 FAMILY XXIX. — MIRID^E. 



964 (1075). Sixenotus tenebrosus (Distant), 1893, 441. 



Oblong-oval, male, more broadly oval, female. Head, pronotum, 

 scutellum and under surface black, strongly shining, with a faint bronze 

 lustre; elytra brownish-black, subopaque, rather thickly clothed with 

 conspicuous subprostrate yellowish hairs; membrane pale to fuscous- 

 brown, the cells and veins darker; legs fuscous-brown to black, the coxae, 

 tarsi and sometimes the tibiae dull yellow. Joints 1 and 2 of antennae dark 

 brown to black, 1 scarcely one-half as long as width of vertex, 2 twice 

 as long as 1, 3 and 4 fuscous-brown, each slightly longer than 2. Length, 

 2.8—3 mm. 



Dunedin, Fla., Oct. 25 — April 6. Swept from herbage about 

 the margin of ponds (W.S.B.). Rock Creek, D. C, June 26 

 (Gerhard). Described from Guatemala. Recorded in this coun- 

 try from Clearwater, Bellaire and La Belle, Fla., Maryland and 

 Kansas. 



965 ( — ). Sixenotus albohirtus Knight, 1926c, 107. 



More elongate than tenebrosus. Black, thinly clothed with prominent 

 suberect white pubescent hairs ; membrane dark fuscous, slightly paler 

 at middle, veins black, finely pubescent; legs as in aa. of key. Joints 1 

 and 2 of antennae dark brown to black, 1 one-half as long as width of 

 vertex, 2 almost twice the length of 1, 3 two-thirds as long as 2. Prono- 

 tum more elongate and not so wide as in tenebrosus. Length, 2.6 — 2.8 mm. 



Dunedin, Fla., Oct. 26 ; swept from a low huckleberry. De- 

 scribed from Sanford, Fla., and not recorded elsewhere. 



V. MONALOCORIS Dahlbom, 1850, 209. 



Small oval brownish species having the head wider across 

 eyes than long; beak reaching hind coxae; antenna? about two- 

 thirds as long as body, the outer joints more slender than the 

 basal ones; pronotum short, trapezoidal, one and a half times 

 as broad at base as long; disk convex, with calli and collar dis- 

 tinct ; elytra entire, passing tip of abdomen, clavus deflected 

 to corium, cuneus short, triangular, feebly deflexed, the outer 

 edge incurved so as to appear notched at base ; hind tarsi with 

 joint 3 longest, 1 and 2 subequal. One widely distributed 

 species is known. 



966 (1082). Monalocoris filicis (Linnaeus), 1758, 443. 



Oblong-oval, male, more broadly oval, female. Pale brownish-ye.low 

 to dark brown, sparsely clothed with fine prostrate yellow hairs; clavus 

 usually somewhat darker than corium; membrane pale translucent with 

 a faint dusky tinge, the veins and cells slightly darker; legs and beak 

 yellow. Joints 1 and 2 of antennae yellow, the tip of 2 piceous; 1 about 

 three-fourths as long as width of vertex, 2 feebly thickened toward tip, 

 two and a half times longer than 1 ; 3 and 4 filiform, piceous, the base 



