952 FAMILY XXIX. — MIRID^E. 



black in var. utricolor) , embolium and cuneus usually strongly 

 reddish. 1079. rubidus. 



cc. Smaller, length, 2.7 mm.; joints 3 and 4 of antennae united equal to 

 or slightly shorter than 2; color wholly black. 



1080. MINUSCULUS. 



bb. Second antennal as long as pronotum plus the dorsal width of an 

 eye; length not over 3 mm. 

 d. Color above black; length, 2.7 mm. 1081. olseni. 



dd. Color above reddish, or yellowish tinged with fuscous. 



e. Joints 1 and 2 of antennae wholly yellowish ; elytra in great part 



reddish. 



/. Femora dull red, paler at tips; whitish scales of upper surface 



elongate. 1082. miniatus. 



ff. Femora wholly pale yellow; whitish scales of upper surface oval, 



conspicuous. 1083. australis. 



ee. Joint 2 of antennae blackish, pale at middle, female, yellowish, 



apical third fuscous, male; elytra dull yellowish-translucent, 



often tinged with fuscous. 1084. pusillus. 



(ki. Beak reaching or surpassing third ventral; joints 1 and 2 of antennae 



pale yellowish; sides of ventrals without scale-like hairs. 



1085. CLARICORNIS. 



1079 (1256). Lepidopsallus rubidus (Uhler), 1895, 41. 



Elongate-oval. Head, front half or more of pronotum and scutellum, 

 fuscous-black; elytra and basal half of pronotum varying from pale fus- 

 cous-brown to blackish, the base of corium usually paler; membrane uni- 

 formly fuscous, veins yellowish ; legs black or brownish, often in part 

 reddish, tibiae with prominent black spines; ventrals reddish-brown to 

 black, shining, thinly clothed with silvery scales. Joint 1 of antennae dark 

 brown, less than half as long as width of vertex; 2 reddish-yellow, dusky 

 at base and apex, or wholly blackish, four times as long as 1, in female 

 more slender with apical half more thickened than in male; 3 and 4 dusky- 

 yellow, 3 three-fifths as long as 2, 4 one-fifth shorter than 3. Pronotum 

 nearly twice as wide at base as long, disk minutely transversely wrinkled. 

 Elytra finely scabrous. Length, 3 — 3.5 mm. 



Marion Co., Ind., July 10 — 15 ; beaten from willow (W. S. B.). 

 Savanna, 111., July 21 — Aug. 11; taken from willows on sand- 

 bars (III. Nat. Hist. Surv. Coll.). Recorded from Bellaire, Fla. 

 Ranges from New England and New York west to Kansas and 

 Colorado, and southwest to Florida, Texas and Cuba. Breeds 

 on willow. The melanistic form, var. utricolor Knight, with 

 scales silvery-gray, often occurs with the typical form on the 

 same clump of willows. 



1080 (— ). Lepidopsallus minusculus Knight, 1923, 472. 



Broadly oval. Black, moderately shining, the silvery scales very 

 prominent, truncate at apex; membrane and veins uniformly fuscous; 



