910 FAMILY XXIX. — MIRID^E. 



July (Brimley). Georgetown, Colo., July 27 (Gerhard). Ranges 

 from Quebec and New England west to the Pacific and south- 

 west to North Carolina. Occurs on various species of Rubus. 



1010 (1109). Dicyphus famelicus (Uhler), 1878, 413. 



Pale greenish- or straw-yellow, shining; neck, narrow median line 

 and impressions of pronotum, scutellum, inner margin and apical half of 

 corium, inner apical margin of embolium and apex of cuneus, in part or 

 wholly dull to bright red; embolium, basal half of corium and cuneus 

 except tip, translucent yellow; apical half of membrane dusky, cells 

 usually paler, veins brownish; legs and under surface pale straw-yellow, 

 more or less reddish, femora with vague minute brown dots, tarsi in part 

 fuscous. Joint 1 of antennae reddish-brown, as long as head and neck 

 united ; 2 reddish-yellow, darker towards apex, more than twice as long 

 as 1; 3 and 4 fuscous-brown, 3 two-thirds the length of 2, 4 one-half as 

 long as 3. Eyes large, brown, placed in front of middle of head. Calli 

 confluent, strongly convex, impressions before and behind them deep; 

 basal portion of pronotum shorter than calli and collar united, minutely 

 shagreened. Elytra minutely pubescent. Length, 4.5 — 5 mm. 



Lake, Marion and Crawford counties, Ind., May 1 — Sept. 28 

 (//'. S. B.). Swept from herbage in and along the margins of 

 dense woodland. Mineral Springs, Ind., Sept. 4 (Gerhard). Sun- 

 burst and Grandfather Mountain, N. Car., May — September 

 (Brimley). The known range extends from Ontario and New 

 England west to Michigan and Indiana and southwest to North 

 Carolina. Knight records its food as Rubus odoratus L. 

 Varies much in the extent of the red markings, these in some 

 individuals covering the entire corium, in others sometimes 

 wholly lacking. 



1011 (1110). Dicyphus vestitus Uhler, 1895, 46. 



Elongate, slender, sides parallel. Vertex and tylus black, highly 

 polished; upper surface of neck pale yellow, with narrow median line 

 brown; pronotum dull yellow, collar paler, flanks black; mesoscutum 

 black, the dark hue shining through the translucent basal lobe of prono- 

 tum; scutellum black, a small yellow spot on each basal angle; elytra 

 straw-yellow, clavus tinged in vague streaks with brown ; corium with a 

 faint brown spot opposite apex of commissure and a small distinct one 

 on inner apical angle; embolium and cuneus pale yellow, their extreme 

 tips brown; membrane pale brown, the veins darker; legs pale yellow, 

 femora with minute dark dots, tips of tarsi darker; mesosterna and sides 

 of ventrals shining brown, remainder of under surface usually straw- 

 yellow. Neck behind eyes shorter than width of vertex; eyes large, 

 prominent. Antennae relatively long and slender, fuscous-black; joint 1 

 paler at base, twice as long as width of vertex, 2 nearly three times as 

 long as 1, 3 four-fifths the length of 2, 4 two-fifths as long as 3. Prono- 

 tum much as in famelicus, nearly twice as wide at base as long, hind 



