930 FAMILY XXIX. — MIRID^E. 



kk. Apical half of hind femora with two rows of black spots on 

 front face, but without a black line above and below. 



1045. CARINATUS. 

 ii. Beak and legs black or fuscous; femora without distinct line or 

 spots. 

 /. Femora, tibia? and antenna? obscured with fuscous or brownish- 

 black; joint 3 of antenna? dusky to fuscous, scarcely paler than 

 joint 2; elytra brownish-black, somewhat translucent; pubes- 

 cence yellowish to dusky. 1046. laricicola. 

 //. Femora black, except on extreme tips; tibia? yellowish, but with 

 prominent black spots. 

 m. Smaller, length 3 mm.; second antennal shorter than width of 

 head plus width of vertex; color deep black, strongly shining, 

 pubescence white. 1047. nigronitens. 

 mm. Larger, length 4.2 — 4.5 mm.; second antennal longer than width 

 of head plus width of vertex. 

 n. Beak reaching upon hind coxae; brownish-black, sometimes 

 slightly translucent at cuneal fracture. 



1044b. annulatus var. nigrofemoratus. 

 nn. Beak not reaching hind coxa?; black, cuneus uniformly black 

 like the corium. 1048. nigritus. 



da. Cuneus pale or uniformly fulvous to dark brown, sometimes dusky at 

 apex, but never in part distinctly black, 

 o. Cuneus and whole upper surface chiefly reddish-yellow; scutellum 

 and clavus sometimes slightly darker; tylus and lora? black. 

 p. Joint 2 of antenna? longer than width of pronotum at base; beak 

 reaching third ventral. 1049. rosicola. 



pp. Joint 2 of antenna? shorter than width of pronotum at base; beak 

 reaching between hind coxa?. 1050. fulvidus. 



oo. Cuneus and upper surface not distinctly reddish-yellow; cuneus 

 sometimes of that hue, but the apical half of corium then black. 

 q. Scutellum uniformly pale or green. 

 /•. Pronotum and elytra nearly uniformly pale greenish- or straw- 

 yellow. 

 s. Smaller, length 3.4 — 3.5 mm.; antennae black, narrow tip of joint 

 1 alone pale. 1051. atricornis. 



ss. Larger, length 4.5 — 4.7 mm. ; joints 1 and 2 of antenna? dark 

 brown, 3 and 4 pale fuscous. 1052. blatchleyi. 



rr. Basal half of pronotum, apical half of corium, and disk of clavus 

 fuscous-bi'own or blackish. 1053. nubilus. 



qq. Scutellum fuscous to blackish, or with a blackish median line. 

 t. Beak not extending beyond middle coxa?; elytra black, basal one- 

 third to one-half of embolium and corium pale; cuneus pale to 

 fulvous, its apex frequently dusky. 1054. brevirostris. 



it. Beak reaching or surpassing middle of hind coxa?. 



?<. Smaller, length 3.7 — 4.6 mm.; pale area of corium extending 

 back along the claval suture. 



1038a. obscurus var. albocuneatus. 



