912 FAMILY XXIX. — MIRID^. 



than width of vertex, narrowly separated beneath ; beak reach- 

 ing- middle coxa? ; antennae rather stout, half the length of body ; 

 pronotum trapezoidal, nearly twice as wide at base as long, 

 calli low, without transverse constriction behind them, hind 

 margin shallowly and broadly concave ; mesoscutum partly ex- 

 posed ; elytra entire, apex of cuneus passing the tip of abdomen, 

 costal margins parallel. Two species, usually recorded under 

 the generic name Engytatus Reut., are known from our territory. 



KEY TO EASTERN SPECIES OF CYRTOPELTIS. 



a. Larger, length 4.5 — 4.7 mm.; femora with rows of small black dots. 



1013. VARIANS. 



(ki. Smaller, length 3.5 — 3.8 mm.; femora without black dots. 



1014. TENUIS. 



1013 (1112). Cyrtopeltis varians (Distant) , 1884, 271. 



Pale greenish-yellow rather thickly clothed with long yellowish hairs; 

 antenna? fuscous, the base of joints 1 and 2 black, tips of all the joints 

 pale; elytra with commissure, tips of embolium and cuneus and veins of 

 membrane blackish-fuscous; legs yellow, tibiae with a black spot near 

 base. Pronotum with base nearly twice as wide as apex, sides feebly con- 

 cave, humeral angles depressed, slightly prolonged; calli confluent, smooth 

 glabrous, disk behind them finely shallowly punctate, thickly pubescent. 

 Mesoscutum rather widely exposed. Male with tylus black and antennae 

 longer than in female. Length, 4.5 — 4.7 mm. 



Managua, Nicaragua (Gerhard). Described from Guatemala. 

 Recorded from Biscayne Bay, Fla., and Texas. According to 

 Uhler it is: "Widely distributed in the southern states, Mexico 

 and the West Indies. In San Domingo it lives on various kinds 

 of weeds growing on the sides of roads and in neglected 

 gardens." The Engytatus geniculatus Reut. (1876, 83) is a 

 synonym, his specific name being preoccupied. 



1014 (1115). Cyrtopeltis tenuis Reuter, 1895, 139. 



Color a nearly uniform pale greenish or straw-yellow, sparsely 

 clothed with very fine prostrate pubescence; collar and embolium paler; 

 calli and mesoscutum a deeper yellow; tips of corium and cuneus brown; 

 membrane pale translucent, the veins slightly darker; tips of beak and 

 tarsi fuscous; knees with a small brown spot. Joint 1 of antennae as long 

 as width of vertex, black at middle, its base and apex yellow; 2 nearly as 

 stout and three and one-half times longer than 1, yellow, its base black, 

 apex fuscous; 3 and 4 dusky yellow, 3 three-fourths as long as 2, 4 one- 

 half as long as 3. Pronotum with sides straight, disk behind calli finely 

 transversely rugose, minutely punctate. Mesoscutum slightly exposed. 

 Length, 3.5—3.8 mm. 



