SUBFAMILY IX. — PHYLIN^E. 937 



soon afterward sent to Prof. Uhler, who named them "Macro- 

 tylus blatchleyi Uhl. (Ms.)." However, he never published the 

 description and Van Duzee later sent specimens from Ham- 

 burg, N. Y., to Dr. Reuter, who described it twenty years after 

 my first specimens were taken. In his notes preceding - the 

 description Reuter states : "Unter dem Namen Macrotylus 

 blatchleyi Uhl. mscr., habe ich aus Nordamerika eine bisher un- 

 beschriebene Miride bekommen. Diese ist jedoch gar kein 

 Macrotylus, sondern gehort zur Gattung Plagiognathus Fieb." Re- 

 corded only from Maine, Massachusetts, New York and New 

 Jersey. 



1053 ( — ). Plagiognathus nubilus Knight, 1923, 444. 



Dull greenish-yellow with fuscous markings as in key; sparsely 

 clothed with yellow hairs; head except tylus and front half of pronotum 

 brighter green ; basal half of pronotum either with three or four fuscous 

 stripes or wholly fuscous; scutellum, embolium and cuneus a uniform 

 paler yellow than corium; membrane dark fuscous, paler bordering veins 

 and near tips of cuneus; femora with brown dots as in blatchleyi, also 

 with a brown line on upper face and a shorter one on inner apical half 

 of lower face. Structural characters much as in blatchleyi, the relative 

 lengths of antennal joints slightly greater. Length, 4.2 — 4.5 mm. 



Marion and Knox counties, Ind., July 5 — Sept. 18. Swept 

 from herbage in dense woodland along streams. The known 

 range extends from New York west to Indiana and southward 

 to Virginia. Described as a variety of blatchleyi but the much 

 more sparse vestiture, fuscous markings of upper surface and 

 dark stripes on femora lead me to place it as a distinct species. 



1054 ( — ). Plagiognathus brevirostris Knight, 1923, 441. 



Black, clothed with prominent yellowish pubescence; elytra with pale 

 markings as in key; membrane fuscous, paler bordering tip of cuneus, 

 veins yellowish; femora black, their tips, and sometimes base, pale; 

 tibiae dull yellow, knees, spines and spots at base, black; under surface 

 black. Joints 1 and 2 of antenna? black, 1 almost as long as width of 

 vertex, 2 four times as long as 1 ; 3 and 4 fuscous, 3 two-thirds the 

 length of 2, nearly twice as long as 4. Female shorter and more robust 

 than male, the pale color along claval suture spreading over outer margin 

 of clavus; legs more broadly pale. Length, 4 — 4.6 mm. 



Spruce Brook, Newfoundland, Aug. 9 (Minn. Univ. Coll.) . 

 Ranges from there and New England west to New York and 

 Michigan. 



1055 ( — ) . Plagiognathus alboradialis Knight, 1923, 439. 



Black or fuscous-black, clothed with grayish-yellow pubescence; 

 scutellum brownish on basal angles, rarely yellowish with median line 



