944 FAMILY XXIX. — MIRID^E. 



sometimes reddish-yellow. Joint 1 of antennae fuscous, pale at tip, two- 

 thirds as long as width of vertex; 2 brownish-yellow, fuscous at base, one- 

 fourth longer than pronotum; 3 and 4 dusky, 3 three-fifths as long as 

 2, 4 two-thirds the length of 3. Beak reaching upon hind coxa?. Prono- 

 tum very feebly punctate, clavus rather coarsely so. Length, 3 — 3.5 mm. 



Batavia, N. Y., June 25 (Minn. Univ. Coll.). Described from 

 Georgia. Recorded from New Jersey, Kansas and California. 

 Occurs on honey locust, Gleditsia triacanthos L. 



1067 ( — ). Plagiognathus cornicola Knight, 1923, 450. 



Dark reddish- or fuscous-brown, thickly clothed with rather coarse 

 semiprostrate yellow hairs; vertex in part, anal ridges, edge of costal 

 margin and tip of embolium paler; membrane pale brownish translucent, 

 veins yellowish; femora dark brown, their tips yellow; coxa? and tibiae 

 dull yellow; under surface shining brown, sides of ventrals in part paler. 

 Joint 1 of antenna? and basal third of 2 dark brown to blackish; 1 

 slightly more than half as long as width of vertex; 2 nearly four times 

 longer than 1, its apical two-thirds dull yellow; 3 and 4 pale fuscous, 3 

 nearly three-fourths as long as 2, 4 three-fifths the length of 3. Prono- 

 tum twice as wide at base as long, minutely and sparsely punctate. 

 Length, 3.2—3.7 mm. 



Marion and Vigo counties, Ind., June 3 — 15 ; beaten from 

 dogwood, Conius alternifolia L. Recorded from Massachusetts, 

 New York and Virginia. Host plants, various species of Cornus. 



1068 ( — ). Plagiognathus repletus Knight, 1923, 449. 



Head black, paler on vertex; pronotum black, middle of disk and 

 area between and in front of calli pale yellow; scutellum as in nn of key; 

 elytra black, margins of clavus, basal third and line along claval suture 

 of corium, embolium, cuneus and anal ridge, yellowish translucent; mem- 

 brane fuscous, narrow area near tip of cuneus hyaline, veins pale yel- 

 low; legs straw-yellow, hind coxa? fuscous, apical half of hind femora 

 brownish and with two rows of black spots; tibia? with knees, spines and 

 spots at their base black, tarsi fuscous ; ventrals brownish-black. Joint 

 1 of antenna? black, its tip yellowish, three-fourths as long as width of 

 vertex; 2 yellowish, basal fourth blackish, five and a third times the 

 length of 1 ; 3 yellowish, fuscous at base, nearly one-half as long as 2; 

 4 dusky-yellow, as long as width of vertex. Length, 3.9 mm. 



The typical form is known only from Batavia, N. Y. ; the 

 variety a pica I is Knight, as differentiated in .« of key, from 

 Connecticut and New York. 



1069 (— ). Plagiognathus similis Knight, 1923, 445. 



Greenish-yellow, thinly clothed with yellowish hairs; tylus, cheeks 

 and lora? dark brown ; pronotum with middle of disk and area in front 

 of calli greenish-yellow, remainder dark brown ; mesoscutum, broad 

 median stripe of scutellum, inner half or all of clavus, a large spot on 



