SUBFAMILY VII. — DER^EOCORIN^. 889 



bb. Cuneus red or stained with reddish; membrane hyaline or with 

 only a fuscous spot at apex or a point each side of middle. 

 d. Second antennal as long or longer than pronotum; membrane fus- 

 cous at apex; calli and scutellum in great part fuscous-black; 

 cuneus red; host plants, smooth alder and white pine. 



986. PCECILUS. 



dd. Second antennal shorter than pronotum ; membrane with two fus- 

 cous spots on apical half, sometimes with a brownish cloud be- 

 hind the spots. 987. ORNATUS. 

 aa. Upper surface bright red; clavus, two spots on pronotum and two 

 on corium, black. 988. histrio. 



984 (1058). Camptobrochis nebulosus Uhler, 1872, 417. 



Dull greenish-yellow, shining, glabrous; two stripes on head, calli 

 and middle of disk of pronotum behind them, scutellum in great part, 

 apical halves of clavus and corium, and apex of cuneus, black or heavily 

 tinged with blackish; basal angles and apex of scutellum, a small spot 

 each side of basal half of cuneus and the osteolar duct, calloused ivory- 

 white; membrane as in c of key; femora dark brown, the knees paler; 

 tibiae and tarsi dull yellow, the former with two brown rings ; propleura 

 dull yellow, coarsely punctate; ventrals shining black, sparsely and 

 minutely pubescent. Joint 1 of antennae dark brown, almost glabrous, 

 three-fourths as long as width of vertex, 2 brownish-yellow, sometimes 

 fuscous at base and apex, distinctly pubescent, one-fourth longer than 

 pronotum, male, about as long as pronotum, female; 3 and 4 more 

 slender, fuscous, subequal in length. Beak reaching between the middle 

 coxae. Pronotum one-half wider at base than long, sides straight, nar- 

 rowly margined ; calli large, minutely punctate, remainder of disk 

 coarsely and unevenly punctate, hind margin sinuate. Scutellum nearly 

 flat, its middle third sparsely punctate. Elytra, except membrane, 

 coarsely and rather sparsely punctate. Tarsal claws and arolia as in 

 pi. X, 29. Length, 3.5—4.2 mm. 



Frequent throughout Indiana, March 20 — Sept. 11. Istok- 

 poga, Fla., March 30. Recorded heretofore definitely only 

 from Monticello, that State. In Indiana and elsewhere in the 

 North it hibernates as imago beneath bark, bunches of dead 

 leaves and other cover. In summer it has been swept from 

 flowers of Jersey tea and foliage of various weeds and, es- 

 pecially in early autumn, often flies to light, four of the speci- 

 mens at hand having been taken from my desk while at work 

 at night. Ranges from Quebec and New England west to the 

 Pacific and southwest to Florida, Texas and Arizona. 



985 ( — ). Camptobrochis nubilus (Knight), 1921, 106. 



Dull greenish- or grayish-yellow, glabrous or nearly so; vertex with 

 two curved stripes and tylus with two lines black; collum and calli shin- 

 ing black, the latter in female with front margin and a wedge-shaped 

 spot between their front halves yellow; disk of pronotum behind calli with 



