916 family xxix. — mirid;e. 



apical two-fifths black, five and three-fourth times as long as 1, its 

 clavate portion twice as thick as 1 ; 3 and 4 fuscous, 3 two-thirds as 

 long as 1, 4 nearly three-fourths the length of 3. Length, 7.3 — 7.6 mm. 



Known only from Yaphank, Long Island, N. Y., and Lake- 

 hurst, N. J., where it was taken by Davis in June and July on 

 flowers of the common goat's rue, Cracca virginiana L. 



II. Orectoderus Uhler, 1876, 319. 



Male — Elongate, slender, subparallel with head triangular, 

 feebly declivent, wider across eyes than front margin of prono- 

 tum ; eyes large, slightly distant from pronotum ; vertex broad, 

 subdepressed ; beak reaching middle coxa? ; pronotum sub- 

 campanulate, flattened above near apex ; basal half of meso- 

 scutum exposed ; scutellum triangular, its apex acute ; elytra 

 entire, slightly wider behind middle ; cuneus long and narrow, 

 surpassing tip of abdomen. Female — Ant-like in form ; head 

 shorter, not exserted, much broader than in male, its front 

 subvertical ; elytra dimorphic, often much shorter than abdo- 

 men, the tips tapering to a point and vertical ; base of abdomen 

 strongly constricted into a pedicel, remaining segments form- 

 ing a subglobose portion. Two species are known, one occur- 

 ring in our territory. 



1019 (1101). Orectoderus obliquus Uhler, 1876, 320. 



Male — Black, shining; elytra brownish with basal half of corium 

 and a large spot on base of cuneus dull yellow; membrane smoky-brown, 

 veins darker; legs reddish-brown, front coxa? and tarsi usually in part 

 darker; middle and hind coxae paler; under surface shining black. An- 

 tennae dull yellow to dark brown, joint 1 paler, as long as width of ver- 

 tex, 2 as long as inner margin of clavus, gradually feebly thickened from 

 base to apex, 3 much more slender, two-thirds the length of 2, 4 two- 

 thirds as long as 3. Scutellum and basal half of pronotum very finely, 

 transversely rugose, clavus more coarsely rugose, both it and corium 

 minutely and sparsely punctate, each puncture bearing a very fine, 

 short yellowish hair. Length, 7.2 — 7.8 mm. Female — Piceous to black, 

 subopaque; scutellum in part or wholly pale dull yellow; corium and 

 cuneus without pale markings; antennae brownish to fuscous, joint 4 

 and tips of 2 and 3 blackish. Length, 5.8 — 6 mm. 



Mt. McClellan, Colo., July 30 (Gerhard). Ranges from On- 

 tario and New England west to Manitoba, the Dakotas, Colo- 

 rado and Kansas. Not recorded south of New Jersey. Occurs 

 in the west on the common sagebush, Artemisia tridentata Nutt. 

 Knight (1923, 475) has described a variety ferrugineous from 



