948 FAMILY XXIX. — MIRID>£. 



tibiae and tarsi pale, joint 3 of tarsi and claws black; ventrals black. An- 

 tennae with joint 2 except tip and base of 1, black, remainder pale brown- 

 ish-yellow. Female more robust than male, with legs and antennae more 

 broadly pale; sometimes brachypterous, then broadly oval with elytra 

 reaching only to tip of abdomen, the membrane very short. Length, 2.8 — 

 3 mm. 



Rock Creek, N. Y., July 4 (Minn. ( 7 ui:: Coll.). Donau-Aubei, 

 Wien (British Mus. Coll.). A European species, known in this 

 country only from New York, where it breeds on plantain. 

 Occurs in Europe on dwarf willow. 



VII. Campylomma Reuter, 1878, 52. 



Differs from Chlamydatus chiefly by the characters given in 

 the generic key. One species is known. 



1075 (1267). Campylomma verdasci (Meyer), 1843, 70. 



Oblong-oval. Pale greenish- or straw-yellow clothed with suberect 

 dusky pubescence; tylus often black; head, mesoscutum and base of scu- 

 tellum tinged with reddish-yellow, disk of cuneus pale brownish ; mem- 

 brane uniformly dusky hyaline; under surface blackish-brown; legs yel- 

 lowish, femora and tibia? spotted with black. Antennae dull yellow, apical 

 half or less of joint 1 and narrow base of 2 black, the relative length of 

 the joints nearly as in Chlamydatus. Length, 2.5 — 2.9 mm. 



Le Sueur Co., Minn., Sept. 13 (Minn. Univ. Coll.). Payerbach, 

 Austria (British Mus. Coll.). A European species recorded in 

 this country from Quebec, Ontario, New England, New York 

 and British Columbia. Host plant, mullein, Verbascum thapsus 

 L. Occurs also on apple, where it feeds on the honey dew of 

 aphids. 



VIII. Leucopcecila Reuter, 1907b, 24. 



Small oblong or wedge-shaped shining species having the 

 head broader across eyes than apex of pronotum, its front ver- 

 tical, vertex flat, not margined ; eyes large, overlapping and 

 contiguous with front angles of pronotum ; beak reaching or 

 slightly surpassing hind coxae; pronotum short and wide, base 

 but little wider than vertex, hind angles prominent, slightly 

 nodulose, base broadly and shallowly concave, calli indistinct ; 

 mesoscutum broadly exposed ; elytra entire, distinctly surpass- 

 ing abdomen, male, slightly so, female ; membrane long and nar- 

 row, cuneus horizontal ; hind femora short, stout ; hind tibiae 

 long, slender, without black spots; joints 2 and 3 of hind tarsi 

 subequal, 1 shorter. One species is known. 



