SUBFAMILY VI. — CYLAPIN^E. 881 



974 ( — ). Peritropis husseyi Knight, 1923c, 50. 



Rather broadly oval. Fuscous-brown or blackish thickly mottled 

 above with small pale dots, these in places confluent to form small pale 

 spots; scutellum black, the apical fourth and a few scattered dots pale; 

 cuneus black with a few pale dots near base; membrane fuscous, the 

 veins slightly darker; under surface and legs brownish-black, the former 

 sparsely clothed with yellowish hairs, middle and hind tibiae paler toward 

 tips; joints 1 and 2 of antennae dark brown to black, 2 with a small sub- 

 median pale spot above, 3 and 4 slender, black. Beak reaching middle 

 of sixth ventral. Pronotum with sides straight and converging from 

 base to apex, their margins feebly reflexed; calli small, rounded, sepa- 

 rated by a shallow median groove; hind margin broadly concave. Meso- 

 scutum widely exposed, elevated above base of scutellum. Elytra con- 

 jointly oval, costal margins broadly curved, narrowly reflexed on basal 

 half, disk with pale dots each bearing a very minute yellowish hair, 

 these visible only when viewed from the side. Length, 3 — 3.2 mm. 



Marion Co., Ind., July 30; one example taken from a pile of 

 cord-wood in dense woodland. Recorded only from near Ann 

 Arbor, Mich., and Tuskeegee, Ala. The Indiana specimen has 

 three minute white calloused spots, not tubercles, on the hind 

 margin of pronotum. The Michigan types were taken by 

 Hussey from beneath loose bark of white oak logs. This Mirid 

 is distinct from all others at hand by the combination of 

 conical head, flat, regularly trapezoidal pronotum, long beak 

 and very numerous pale dots on a dark background. 



IV. Bothynotus Fieber, 1864, 76. 



Oblong-oval pubescent species having the head wider 

 across eyes than long, strongly constricted just behind eyes 

 into a short neck, its front vertical, strongly flattened ; tylus 

 convex, its base separated from the front ; eyes prominent, not 

 contiguous with pronotum ; joints 1 and 2 of antennae stout, of 

 equal thickness, densely pilose, 3 and 4 abruptly much more 

 slender, also pilose; beak reaching middle coxae; pronotum 

 trapezoidal, declivent forward, disk hairy, twice as wide at base 

 as long, deeply, closely punctate ; calli smooth, confluent at 

 middle, forming a smooth, shining arc ; mesoscutum concealed ; 

 scutellum triangular, minutely transversely wrinkled, deeply 

 impressed at base, a median carina on apical half ; elytra some- 

 times dimorphic, in male, surpassing abdomen, rugose, hairy, 

 cuneus and membrane much deflected ; in female sometimes 

 reaching only to fourth dorsal, the membrane absent ; legs 

 pilose, hind femora slender, not reaching tip of abdomen; joint 

 1 of tarsi longest, 2 shortest, claws toothed at base, without 

 arolia. One species is known from our territory. 



