934 FAMILY XXIX. — MIRID^E. 



1043 ( — ). Plagiognathus repetitus Knight, 1923, 453. 



Black, moderately shining, sparsely clothed with fine yellowish hairs; 

 membrane and veins uniformly pale fuscous; legs yellowish, basal half 

 of coxae fuscous, apical half of femora with one or two rows of vague 

 small fuscous spots, black spots at base of tibial spines prominent; ven- 

 trals shining black. Joints 1 and 2 of antennae black, 1 two-thirds as 

 long as width of vertex, 2 three and a half times as long as 1; 3 and 4 

 dusky yellow, 3 three-fourths the length of 2, 4 two-thirds as long as 3. 

 Length, 3 mm. 



Whiteface Mt., N. Y., Aug. 22 (Minn. Univ. Coll.) . Occurs on 

 conifers in Nova Scotia, New England, New York and New 

 Jersey. 



1044 (1240). Plagiognathus annulatus Uhler, 1895, 51. 



Color a nearly uniform dull brown to blackish, more or less trans- 

 lucent, rather thickly clothed with yellowish to whitish pubescence; 

 cuneus often with a small spot on inner basal angle or a narrow lunule 

 along fracture, paler; membrane uniformly pale translucent, the veins 

 paler; legs dull yellow, femora either with a few blackish spots and lines 

 on outer apical half or clouded with fuscous-brown, their tips paler; basal 

 half of coxae, apical tarsal joint and spots and spines of tibiae, black; 

 under surface dark brown to blackish, the sides of ventrals often paler. 

 Joints 1 and 2 of antennae dark brown, 1 five-sixths as long as width of 

 vertex, 2 four times longer than 1 ; 3 and 4 dusky yellow, 3 two-thirds as 

 long as 2, 4 three-fifths the length of 3. Pronotum nearly twice as wide 

 at base as long, minutely irregularly rugose; calli rather prominent, con- 

 fluent, with an impression between their bases. Clavus finely transverse- 

 ly rugose; corium minutely punctate. Length, 4 — 4.2 mm. 



Putnam and Vigo counties, Ind., June 18 — Aug. 26; taken 

 from flowers of various species of Compositae. Pine Island, N. 

 Y., June 19 (Davis). Ranges from Ontario and New England 

 west to Kansas and Colorado. Variable to some extent in 

 color, the variations forming the basis of Knight's two varieties 

 (1923, 442), cuneatus and nigrofemoratus, as set forth in the 

 above key. 



1045 ( — ). Plagiognathus carinatus Knight, 1926, 10. 



Dark brownish-black, clothed with yellow pubescence; vertex yellow- 

 ish; base of cuneus subtranslucent; legs yellowish, hind femora with 

 black spots as in key. Joint 1 of antennae black, its tip narrowly pale, 

 one-tenth shorter than width of vertex; 2 dark brownish, black at base, 

 male, yellowish at middle, female, four times as long as 1, its length in 

 male equal to width of head plus width of vertex, in female one-eighth 

 shorter; 3 and 4 dusky yellow, 3 two-thirds the length of 2, twice as long 

 as 4. Beak reaching hind margins of middle coxae. Length, 3.8 — 4.2 mm. 



Recorded only from Dewitt, Va., where it was found in June 

 on persimmon, Diospyros virginiana L. 



