940 FAMILY XXIX. — MIRID>£. 



s. Elytra, except along base of radial vein, dark brown or fusco- 

 brownish; general color yellowish-testaceous to fulvous; 

 sides of pronotum and median line of scutellum dark brown 

 or fuscous. 1070. cary^e. 



ss. Elytra black; outer half of clavus, basal half of corium and 

 extending along claval suture to apex, pale translucent. 



1068a. repletus var. apicatus. 



1056 ( — ). Plagiognathus suffuscipennis Knight, 1923, 454. 



Dark brown, shining; sparsely pubescent with very fine yellowish 

 hairs; pronotum and scutellum blackish-brown; membrane pale fuscous- 

 brown, veins yellowish; legs dull yellow, coxae except tips, fuscous; femora 

 usually with two rows of minute dark spots on inner and outer faces; 

 under surface dark brown to blackish, shining, clothed with very fine 

 yellowish prostrate hairs. Joint 1 of antenna? dark brown, narrowly 

 paler at base and apex, two-thirds as long as width of vertex; 2 dusky 

 yellow, darker at base, three and a half times longer than 1 ; 3 and 4 

 yellowish, 3 three-fifths as long as 2, 4 two-thirds as long as 3. Pronotum 

 twice as wide at base as long, calli large, low, confluent, disk minutely 

 transversely rugose. Clavus more coarsely, transversely rugose, corium 

 almost smooth. Length, 3.2 — 3.4 mm. 



Recorded only from Maine and Minnesota. Host plant, black 

 spruce, Picea mariana (Mill.). 



1057 ( — ). Plagiognathus albonotatus Knight, 1923, 437. 



Head black, base of vertex slightly paler; pronotum black, in female 

 often with median pale spot; scutellum black, basal angles sometimes 

 pale; elytra black, the basal third and apex of embolium, corium, and 

 to some extent of clavus, anal ridges, and entire cuneus, greenish-yellow; 

 membrane uniformly fuscous, veins paler; femora, except at base and 

 tip, black; coxa? and tibia? pale yellow, the knees, spines and spot at base 

 of each, black; under surface black, ventrals of female paler on sides. 

 Antenna? with joint 1 and base of 2 black, remainder pale yellow; joint 

 1 four-fifths as long as width of vertex, 2 three and one-half times longer 

 than 1, 3 two-thirds as long as 2, 4 two-thirds the length of 3. Prono- 

 tum almost twice as wide at base as long, sides and basal margin straight, 

 calli distinct, confluent, disk, as well as that of scutellum, minutely 

 granulate. Elytra and pronotum sparsely clothed with fine yellowish 

 suberect hairs ; costal margins of former feebly but visibly curved. 

 Length, 3.3 — 3.5 mm. 



Porter Co., Ind., Sept. 26. Ranges from New England west 

 to the Dakotas and Colorado. Occurs on the meadow-sweet, 

 Spircea salicifolia L. Knight (loc. cit.) described two color 

 varieties, tinctus and compar, distinguished by the characters 

 given in key. The former occurs in the east* ranging south to 

 North Carolina, the latter he records only from Maine and New 

 York. 



