924 FAMILY XXIX. — mirid;e. 



yellow, basal half of hind coxae and tips of tarsi fuscous; under surface 

 dark brown, shining, minutely pubescent. Joints 1 and 2 of antennae 

 straw-yellow, fuscous at base; 1 slightly shorter than width of vertex; 



2 dusky at apex, nearly three times as long as 1 ; 3 yellowish tinged with 

 dusky, about three-fifths the length of 2; 4 two-thirds as long as 3. Beak 

 reaching tips of middle coxae. Length, 3.4 — 3.6 mm. 



St. Anthony Park, Minn., June 10 (Minn, Univ. Co/1.) . Re- 

 corded only from New York and Minnesota. A form from 

 Maine with second antennal blackish and femora dotted with 

 fuscous Knight calls var. fusicornis. 



1027 ( — ). MlCROPHYLELLUS nigricornis Knight, 1923, 457. 



Black, strongly shining, minutely dusky pubescent; membrane and 

 veins uniformly fuscous ; legs pale straw-yellow, bases of coxae and tips of 

 tarsi blackish; ventrals black with yellowish and black pubescence. An- 

 tennae pale yellowish, joint 2 and base of 1 black; 1 three-fourths as long 

 as width of vertex, 2 nearly four times as long as 1, 3 one-fourth shorter 

 than 2, nearly twice as long as 4. Length, 3.8 — 4 mm. 



Ithaca, N. Y., July 7 (Minn. Univ. Coll.). Recorded elsewhere 

 only from Parry Sound, Ontario, and Batavia, N. Y. 



1028 (1225). Microphylellus modestus Reuter, 1912a, 62. 



Color a nearly uniform brown to blackish; rather thickly clothed with 

 fine inclined yellowish hairs; membrane fuscous-translucent, feebly 

 iridescent, veins slightly paler; beak, legs and antennae pale yellow; 

 femora usually with a row of small vague fuscous dots along the upper 

 side of outer face; tips of tibiae and tarsi blackish. Joint 1 of antennae 

 scarcely half as long as width of vertex, 2 about four times longer than 

 1, slightly shorter than width of pronotum at base, 3 and 4 united, about 

 as long as 2. Beak reaching hind coxae. Length, 3 — 3.3 mm. 



Marion, Knox and Posey counties, Ind., June 4 — 26 ; beaten 

 from elm and swept from low herbage (IV. S. B.). Mill Brook, 

 N. Car., May 11 — 13 (Brimley). The known range extends 

 from Ontario and New England west to Indiana and southwest 

 to North Carolina. "Found most frequently among aphid 

 curled leaves of elm and white oak, feeding to some extent on 

 honey dew, but sometimes on eggs of the elm leaf beetle, 

 Galerucella luteola Mull." (Knight). 



1029 (— ). Microphylellus tsvgje Knight, 1923, 456. 



Dark brown thinly clothed with pale yellowish pubescence; elytra 

 feebly translucent, membrane uniformly brownish-hyaline, iridescent; 

 legs yellowish, bases of coxae and tips of tarsi fuscous; ventrals dark 

 brown. Joint 1 of antennae fuscous-black, three-fifths as long as width 

 of vertex; 2 yellowish, fuscous at base, nearly four times as long as 1; 



3 dull yellow, three-fifths the length of 2; 4 dusky, two-thirds as long 

 as 3. Length, 2.6 — 2.8 mm. 



