884 FAMILY XXIX. — MIRID^E. 



KEY TO EASTERN SPECIES OF EUSTICTUS. 

 a. Hind tibiae with long pilose hairs or seta? on basal half, these dis- 

 tinctly longer than true spines. 



b. Pronotal disk uniform brownish-black; legs chiefly reddish-brown; 



tibiae not banded with paler; length, 8 — 10 mm. 976. grossus. 

 66. Pronotal disk with front half blackish, hind one paler; legs pale 

 brownish-yellow with black markings; tibiae with four alternat- 

 ing pale and fuscous bands. 977. venatorius. 

 aa. Hind tibiae with only short and fine pubescence. 



c. Pronotum chiefly black, lateral margins not pale; width of vertex 



in male twice or more the thickness of first antennal. 

 (/. Coria with a piceous band across the tips; scutellum wholly black; 

 legs uniform reddish-brown. 978. mundus. 



dd. Coria without a piceous band across the tips; scutellum black with 

 spot on basal angles and median stripe on apical half pale; legs 

 more or less spotted with pale. 979. necopinus. 



cc. Pronotum with median portion black, sides broadly pale; width of 

 vertex in male usually but little more than thickness of first 

 antennal. 

 d. Smaller, length, 5.5 — 6 mm.; joint 4 of antennae shorter than joint 

 1. 980. CATULUS. 



dd. Larger, length, 7 — 7.5 mm.; fourth joint of antennae as long as or 

 longer than joint 1. 981. salicicola. 



976 (1054). Eustictus GROSSUS Si, a (Uhler), 1887b, 70. 



Head, elytra, antennae and legs pale reddish- or yellowish-brown; 

 pronotum and scutellum blackish-brown ; inner apical angles of coriuni 

 and cuneus piceous, outer one of corium tinged with reddish; membrane 

 dusky translucent, cells and veins darker; under surface pale brownish- 

 yellow, genital region darker; tibiae and basal joints of beak usually in 

 part reddish, tarsi dull yellow. Joint 1 of antennae stout, narrowed at 

 base, about as long as pronotum, beset with numerous long black setae, 

 similar to those on legs; 2 more slender, cylindrical, two and a half times 

 as long as 1 ; 3 dull yellow, darker at base, two-fifths the length of 2 ; 4 

 fuscous, its tip paler, three-fourths as long as 3. Pronotum one-third 

 wider at base than long, sides feebly sinuate, their pale edges narrowly 

 reflexed; calli larger, united at middle, disk behind them transversely 

 rugose, finely scabrous, indistinctly punctate. Elytra with a row of 

 punctures each side of radial veins, otherwise smooth. Femora and tibiae 

 all with numerous long erect blackish hairs. Length, 8 — 10 mm. 



Posey Co., Ind., Sept. 21. Miami, R. P. Park, Lake Okeechobee 

 and Dunedin, Fla., Dec. 4 — March 20. Beaten from foliage of 

 shrubs along the margins of hammocks. Previously recorded 

 from Crescent City and Biscayne Bay, Fla. Ranges from New 

 England and New York west to southern Indiana and south- 

 west to Florida and Texas. Uhler mentions it as "moderately 

 common on pine bushes in Maryland and Massachusetts in 

 July." 



S! 'a China (Ms.) states that, in his opinion, /•.'. qrossus is the same as Capsus 

 ftlicornis Walker (1st::. 96), which Van Iiuzee. following Distant, lists as a Creon- 

 i nub s. if so Walker's name has priority. 



