886 FAMILY XXIX. — MIRID^E. 



dark; color of scutellum as in key; elytra pale translucent, irregularly 

 marked with dark fuscous; cuneus yellowish sub-hyaline, apical half 

 and inner basal angle blackish; membrane pale, veins and side margins 

 in part brownish to fuscous; legs brownish-black, femora paler at base 

 and spotted apically, tibia? with pale spots; ventrals dull yellow spotted 

 with reddish. Joint 1 of antenna? pale with black markings, three- 

 fourths as long as width of head across eyes; 2 brownish-black almost 

 three times as long as 1 ; 3 and 4 black, 3 one-half as long as 2, 4 four- 

 fifths the length of 3. Length, 5.6 — 7 mm. 



Recorded only from Ontario and New York, the var. discretus 

 from Connecticut. Occurs on aspen. 



980 (1051). Eustictus catulus (Uhler) , 1894, 257. 



Dull brownish- or grayish-yellow, clothed with gray pubescence; 

 pronotum with a large subquadrate black spot on apical half, and 

 vaguely spotted with black near base; scutellum shining black, a yellow 

 spot each side at base, tip whitish; corium with small scattered brown 

 spots, a larger blackish one on inner apical angle; cuneus ivory-yellow, 

 its tip and margins black; membrane pale dusky-hyaline, veins and ap- 

 ical half darker; connexivum reddish, incisures blackish; legs dull yel- 

 low, vaguely spotted with brown ; coxa? and sternum whitish ; ventrals 

 greenish-yellow, freckled with red, side margins with a broad black 

 stripe. Joint 1 of antenna? black, 2 — 4 piceous-brown, 2 as long as clavus, 

 3 slightly longer than 1, 4 three-fourths as long as 3, its tip acute. 

 Length, 5 — 6 mm. 



Described from York Co., Pa., southern Texas and Cape St. 

 Lucas, Lower California. Occurs on pine. 



981 ( — ). Eustictus salicicola Knight, 1923, 482. 



Elongate, sides subparallel, male; suboval, female. Color of pro- 

 notum as in key; scutellum dark brown or black, basal angles pale; 

 elytra pale translucent, glabrous, clavus black each side of commissure, 

 corium with punctures, radius and a large spot on inner apical angle, 

 dark fuscous, outer edge of embolium often blackish; cuneus pale trans- 

 lucent, inner apical margin darker; membrane pale hyaline, cells dusky, 

 margins of apical half pale fuscous; legs dull yellow, apical half of 

 femora spotted with blackish ; tibia? each with four pale bands and nu- 

 merous dark spots ; ventrals pale greenish-yellow, spotted with reddish. 

 Joint 1 of antenna? pale, flecked with black spots, two-thirds as long as 

 width of head across eyes; 2 dark fuscous, extreme base paler, nearly 

 three times as long as 1 ; 3 blackish, paler apically, two-fifths as long as 

 2; 4 blackish, one-fifth shorter than 3. Length, 7 — 7.5 mm. 



New Ulm and St. Paul, Minn., June 18 (.1//;///. Univ. Co//.). Re- 

 corded from Mississippi, Minnesota and North Dakota. Oc- 

 curs on bark of willow. 



