882 FAMILY XXIX. — MIRID^E. 



975 (976V2). Bothynotus modestus (Wirtner) , 1917, 34. 



Male — Oblong. Fuscous-brown, thickly clothed with short inclined 

 blackish hairs; head, neck and collar dull red; tylus, calli and scutellum 

 piceous; membrane dusky, iridescent, a whitish spot beneath tip of 

 cuneus; legs brownish-yellow; ventrals reddish-brown, their side mar- 

 gins blackish. Joint 1 of antennae rufous, swollen, slightly longer than 

 width of vertex; 2 cylindrical, rufous at base, piceous toward apex, 

 four-fifths as long as basal width of pronotum; 3 yellowish, 4 dusky, 

 the two united one-fifth shorter than 2. Elytra minutely punctate; mem- 

 brane longer than basal width of pronotum, rugose, very finely pubes- 

 cent, both above and below, apex of large cell broadly rounded. Female 

 — Oval. Above and beneath black or piceous, strongly shining; legs 

 black or piceous, tibia? sometimes dull yellow. Joints 1 and 2 of an- 

 tenna? black or piceous-black; 1 as long as width of vertex, 2 distinctly 

 thickened toward apex, one-fourth shorter than in male. Membrane, 

 brachypterous form, three-fourths as long as basal width of pronotum, 

 slightly passing tip of abdomen. Length, male, 4 — 5 mm.; brachypter- 

 ous female, 3.8 — 4.2 mm. 



Dunedin, Fla., Feb. 23 — April 16; two females beaten from 

 dense bunches of Spanish moss (W.S.B.). Greensburg, Pa., 

 Aug. 16 — Sept. 18 (Wirtner). Described from there and re- 

 corded elsewhere only from Illinois. When compared with 

 specimens of the European B. pilosus (Boh.), received from 

 W. E. China, I found the latter to have joints 1 and 2 of an- 

 tennae more sparsely and finely pilose and distinctly shorter, 1 

 being only three-fifths as long as width of vertex, 2 cylindrical 

 in both sexes, about three-fifths as long as basal width of pro- 

 notum, 3 and 4 united as long as 2 ; female with elytra reach- 

 ing fourth dorsal, membrane absent; legs, except tarsi, red- 

 dish-yellow in both sexes. The two species are, in my opinion, 

 very distinct. 



Subfamily VII. DER/EOCORIN^E Van Duzee, 1915, 114. 



Oval or oblong-oval, robust, shining Mirids of medium size 

 having the head small, as wide or wider across eyes than apex 

 of pronotum, its front usually vertical or nearly so ; eyes large, 

 prominent ; antennae generally shorter than body, the third and 

 fourth joints usually more slender than the basal ones ; prono- 

 tum trapezoidal and with a distinct but narrow collar: scutel- 

 lum large, flat, equilateral ; elytra entire, coriaceous, subde- 

 pressed, usually surpassing the abdomen, cuneus horizontal or 

 feebly deflexed, its fracture weak ; membrane 2-celled ; claws 

 usually cleft at base, arolia very slender, bristle-like, pseud- 

 arolia absent. 



