920 FAMILY XXIX. — MIRID^E. 



Swannanoa, N. Car., June 20 (Brimley). Described from Con- 

 necticut. Recorded elsewhere only from Massachusetts, 

 Pennsylvania and Estero, Fla. 



II. LOPUS Hahn, 1833, 143. 



Elongate, slender, subparallel, finely pubescent species hav- 

 ing the head as broad across eyes as long, its front declivent ; 

 tylus convex, forming a continuous curve ; beak reaching hind 

 coxse; pronotum trapezoidal, twice as wide at base as long, 

 sides straight, hind margin straight at middle, rounded on 

 sides, disk convex, declivent towards head ; scutellum triangu- 

 lar, equilateral, on a higher plane than clavus ; elytra entire, 

 surpassing abdomen ; clavus convex, deflected to corium ; cuneus 

 and membrane deflected ; tarsi short, joints 2 and 3 subequal, 1 

 two-thirds the length of 2. One introduced European species 

 occurs in the eastern states. 



1023 (1207). Lopus decolor (Fallen), 1807, 102. 



Female — Pale greenish- or straw-yellow, the elytra subhyaline; 

 basal lobe of pronotum with three short fuscous stripes; scutellum 

 whitish; clavus and inner half of corium slightly tinged with fuscous; 

 membrane pale translucent, feebly iridescent; legs pale yellow, tarsi, 

 claws and apical half of beak piceous; under surface dull yellow, sides 

 of ventrals with vague fuscous spots. Joints 1 and 2 of antenna? dull 

 yellow, apex of 1 and base of 2 usually darker; 1 two-thirds as long as 

 width of vertex; 2 feebly thickened toward apex, four times as long as 

 1 ; 3 and 4 fuscous, filiform, 3 two-thirds as long as 2, 4 one-half the 

 length of 3. Calli small, convex, rather prominent, widely separated. 

 Length, 3.8 — 4 mm. Male — Larger and darker. Second antennal as long 

 as width of vertex. Head with brown markings; calli usually blackish; 

 elytra and corium more heavily tinged with fuscous; under surface 

 black. Length, 4.5 — 4.8 mm. 



Staten Island, N. Y., July 17 (Davis). Recorded in this 

 country from Quebec, Ontario and the eastern seaboard states, 

 as far south as Maryland ; also from California. "Breeds on 

 sedges ; found in numbers and observed to oviposit in the stem 

 of Juncus dudleyi Wieg. at McLean, N. Y." (Knight) . 



IV. Megalocoleus Reuter, 1890a, 254. 



Differs from the other genera of the tribe mainly by the 

 characters given in the generic key. One introduced European 

 species has been taken in Massachusetts. 



1024 ( — ). Megalocoleus molliculus (Fallen), 1829, 82. 



Elongate, sides subparallel, male; suboval, female. Greenish-yellow 

 or grayish-green, thickly clothed with conspicuous suberect dusky hairs; 



