890 FAMILY XXIX. — MIRID,£. 



or without fuscous blotches; scutellum brown, the side margins and tip 

 yellow; narrow edges of embolium and commissure blackish; tibiae green- 

 ish-yellow with two rings and tips darker; coxae pale, tarsi fuscous; ven- 

 trals shining blackish-brown, finely and sparsely pubescent. Antennae 

 dark brown, middle of joint 2 paler; joint 1 nearly three-fourths as long 

 as width of vertex; 2 almost four times as long as 1, male, three times 

 as long, female; 3 and 4 subequal, each one-third the length of 2. Prono- 

 tum two-thirds wider at base than long, sides and basal margin slightly 

 sinuate, disk finely and sparsely punctate. Elytra, including cuneus, 

 similarly punctate; scutellum more coarsely and sparsely so. Length, 

 4.2—4.8 mm. 



Ithaca, N. Y., Feb. 13 (Davis). Ranges from Newfoundland 

 and New England west to Minnesota and Nebraska and south- 

 west to North Carolina; hibernating beneath bark and other 

 cover. Probably predaceous on the pine bark aphid, Chermes 

 pinicorticis (Fitch) . 



986 (1060a). Camptobrochis pcecilus McAtee, 1919c, 246. 



Pale brownish-yellow, shining, glabrous; head with two stripes on 

 vertex, bent behind at right angles and reaching eyes, piceous; tylus 

 with two narrower similar stripes; pronotum with front margin of calli 

 and wedge-shaped projection between them, collar, very narrow median 

 line of hind lobe and edge of hind margin, yellowish; scutellum with side 

 margins of basal half and apex ivory-white; corium with two spots on 

 apical third dark brown; cuneus bright red, yellowish at base, the mar- 

 gins of apical half brown; membrane as in key; femora with basal two- 

 thirds shining brown, apical third and knees paler; tibiae dull yellow 

 with two rings and apical fourth brown; tips of beak and tarsi fuscous. 

 Antennae dark brown, middle third of joint 2 often yellow; joint 1 as 

 long as width of vertex, 2 three and a fourth times longer than 1, 3 one- 

 third the length of 2, 4 slightly longer than 3. Pronotum two-thirds 

 wider at base than long, rather coarsely, evenly, not densely punctate. 

 Scutellum more coarsely and closely punctate. Clavus coarsely, corium 

 more finely and sparsely punctate. Length, 4.2 — 5 mm. 



Swannanoa and Fair Bluff, N. Car., July — Sept. (Brimley). 

 Ranges from New England west to Illinois and southwest to 

 North and South Carolina. Described by Reuter (1909, 59) as 

 C amptobrochis validus cunealis, but his varietal name was preoccu- 

 pied. McAtee found the adults hibernating beneath bark of 

 birch, sycamore and maple, near Great Falls, Va. He collected 

 the nymphs in August from Alnus rugosa. 



987 ( — ). Camptobrochis ornatus (Knight), 1921, 99. 



Head reddish-brown; cheeks, lorae, tip of tylus and two impressed 

 spots on vertex, piceous; pronotum grayish-testaceous, punctate with fus- 

 cous, margins and vague median line of disk paler, calli black, their mar- 

 gins reddish-brown; scutellum reddish-brown to piceous, apex and side 



