908 FAMILY XXIX. — MIRID^E. 



elytra entire, surpassing abdomen by half the length of mem- 

 brane, cuneus horizontal, its fracture scarcely evident ; front 

 coxae long, reaching or surpassing middle of mesosternum ; 

 joints 1 and 3 of hind tarsi subequal, 2 longest. Six species are 

 known from our territory. 1 ' 1 



KEY TO EASTERN SPECIES OF DICYPHUS. 



a. Smaller, length not over 3.7 mm. 



b. Corium with a large rounded black spot near apex; legs wholly pale 



yellow; basal margin of pronotum feebly concave, the mesoscutum 

 only in small part exposed ; length less than 3 mm. 



1007. MINIMUS. 

 66. Corium without a prominent rounded dark spot near apex; head 

 black, with a large pale spot behind eyes ; basal margin of prono- 

 tum widely and deeply concave, the mesoscutum in great part 

 or wholly exposed, length, 3.5 — 3.7 mm. 1008. notatus. 



aa. Larger, length, especially of female, more than 4 mm.; basal mar- 

 gin of pronotum widely and deeply concave. 



c. Head and pronotum both dark brown to black ; collar and usually 



a line between calli pale; elytra in great part pale; osteole 

 scarcely evident, the rim of its peritreme feebly elevated. 



1009. AGILIS. 

 cc. Pronotum in great part dull yellow with only the sides darker; 

 osteole distinct, the rim of its peritreme elevated, prominent. 

 d. Elytra with numerous red lines and streaks ; eyes separated from 

 pronotum by a space equal to dorsal width of an eye. 



1010. FAMELICUS. 



dd. Elytra more or less darkened with fuscous, rarely with red mark- 

 ings. 

 e. Second antennal wholly black; vertex shining black with a large 

 pale spot behind it; elytra not conspicuously marked with fus- 

 cous; form very slender. 1011. vestitus. 

 ee. Second antennal with basal two-thirds or more yellow; vertex 

 dull yellow; elytra conspicuously marked with fuscous. 



1012. DISCREPANS. 



1007 (1111). Dicyphus minimus Uhler, 1899, 59. 



Head black, shining; disk of pronotum either pale fuscous with dark 

 margins or wholly black, the collar pale yellow; scutellum fuscous to 

 black with a yellowish triangular spot each side of base; elytra dull 

 translucent yellow with widely scattered minute fuscous punctures, a 

 large rounded spot or dot near apex of corium and the tip of cuneus dark 

 brown or black; membrane pale dusky translucent, veins slightly darker; 

 legs and under surface pale greenish-yellow, sides of ventrals and tips 

 of tarsi darker. Antennae blackish, joint 1 paler at base, slightly shorter 

 than head ; 2 twice as long and nearly as thick as 1 ; 3 and 4 more slender, 

 3 one-third longer than 2, 4 subequal in length to 2. Pronotum two- 

 thirds wider at base than long, sides feebly concave, finely margined; 



9iThe eastern records <>f /'. californicus Stal (lS59a, 259) are, as pointed out by 

 Van Duzee (1917, 370) unreliable, it is therefore regarded as extralimital for this 

 work. 



