950 FAMILY XXIX. — MIRID^E. 



cc. Tylus merged with the front, the suture separating them wanting 

 or very obscure; legs pale, femora not spotted; second antennal 

 annulate with black. XII. Cylloceps, p. 960. 



an. Joint 2 of antennae more or less strongly thickened or flattened, at 

 least its apical half distinctly thicker than joint l. 1 " 

 e. Head distinctly produced in front of eyes; color black or fuscous- 

 brown clothed with conspicuous white scale-like pubescence. 

 /. Joint 2 of antenna? strongly swollen in male, slender in female; 

 elytra, including cuneus, wholly black. XIII. Criocoris, p. 960. 

 ff. Joints 1 and 2 of antennae strongly swollen in both sexes; elytra 

 fuscous-brown, cuneus with tip and a lunule at base yellowish. 



XIV. Excentricus, p. 961. 

 ee. Head not or scarcely produced in front of eyes. 



g. Beak not surpassing middle coxae; joint 2 of antennae clavate in 

 female, terete and much thicker in male, but slightly longer than 

 3 and 4 united. XV. Rhinacloa, p. 962. 



gg. Beak reaching or surpassing hind coxae; joint 2 of antennae much 

 swollen and thickened toward apex at least in female, subequal 

 in length to 3 and 4 united. XVI. Atractotomus, p. 963. 



IX. Reuteroscopus Kirkaldy, 1905, 268. 



Small elongate-oblong, smooth pubescent species having the 

 head longer than wide, declivent, prolonged in front of eyes, 

 vertex convex, not margined at base ; eyes rather small, con- 

 tiguous to pronotum ; antennae slender, shorter than body, joint 

 1 not reaching tip of tylus ; beak reaching hind coxae; pronotum 

 trapezoidal, slightly longer than width of apex, base twice as 

 wide as apex, sides straight, base truncate, disk convex, feebly 

 declivent forward ; mesoscutum narrowly exposed ; elytra en- 

 tire, surpassing abdomen ; hind tibiae very long, their spines 

 black but without spots at base. Two species occur in our ter- 

 ritory. 



KEY TO EASTERN SPECIES OF REUTEROSCOPUS. 



a. Femora dull yellow without fuscous spots; apex of corium with 



fuscous cross-bar. 1077. ornatus. 



(ki. Femora thickly flecked with small pale fuscous spots; corium with 



only inner apical angle fuscous. 1078. sulphureus. 



1077 (1213). Reuteroscopus ornatus (Reuter), 1876, 90. 



Dull greenish-yellow, basal half of pronotum darker green; scu- 

 tellum, clavus and a bar across apical fourth of corium fuscous-brown 

 to black; membrane fuscous, veins sometimes paler; legs dull yellow, tarsi 

 darker; under surface greenish-yellow, genital segments often darker. 

 Joints 1 and 2 of antennae dull yellow, 1 three-fourths as long as width of 



94Not thicker than joint 1 in female of Criocoris saliens (Reut.l nor in male of 

 Atractotomus magnicornis (Fall.). 



