956 FAMILY XXIX. — MIRID^E. 



i. Second antennal just equal to width of head, female, slightly 



greater, male; hind femora fusco-brownish to black, front and 



middle ones more yellowish; each with two black spots on upper 



margin of apical half. 1094. waldeni. 



it. Second antennal distinctly longer than width of head. 



j. Antenna? pale, pubescence dusky; legs dark brown or black, tibiae 



and tips of femora pale, tibial spines with small fuscous spots 



at base. 1095. piceicola. 



jj. Antennae black, or at least joint 1 black. 



k. Legs testaceous to brownish, femora sometimes nearly black, but 



their tips never pale, hind pair much swollen; coxae and tibiae 



more or less tinged with reddish. 1096. ancorifer. 



kk. Legs chiefly black; femora black, tips of front and middle ones 



pale; coxae deep black; tibiae pale, their spines with black spot 



at base. 1097. drakei. 



1086 (1215). Psallus GUTTULOSUS Reuter, 1876, 89. 



Dull greenish-yellow, thickly sprinkled with small reddish-brown or 

 fuscous spots; pronotum with a vague pale median stripe; cuneus dull 

 yellow, usually heavily tinged with red, its extreme base pale hyaline; 

 membrane pale dusky brown, paler near apex of cuneus, veins yellowish; 

 legs greenish-yellow, femora with numerous scattered reddish-brown dots, 

 more conspicuous on hind ones; tibial spines black, each with a small 

 fuscous spot at base; under surface straw yellow; ventrals tinged with 

 reddish. Joints 1 and 2 of antennae pale yellow; 1 three-fourths as long 

 as width of vertex, 2 four times as long as 1 ; 3 dusky yellow, 4 fuscous, 

 the two united two-thirds the length of 2. Length, 3.5 — 3.7 mm. 



Ormond, Sanford, Lake Wales, Ft. Myers and Dunedin, Fla., 

 March 16 — April 6. Beaten from foliage of shrubs along the 

 margins of hammocks and swept from herbage along the bay 

 front. Recorded from Bellaire and Jacksonville, Fla. ; Georgia, 

 Texas, Colorado and Lower California. 



1087 (— ). Psallus alnicola Douglas & Scott, 1871, 62. 



Color as in key, clothed with scattered patches of long appressed 

 yellowish hairs; disk of pronotum with a few scattered minute fuscous 

 spots; tip of scutellum brownish, of clavus narrowly blackish; cuneus 

 carmine red, its basal margin yellowish; membrane fuscous-black, 

 marbled with whitish, veins reddish; legs red, apical halves of femora 

 dotted with black, tibiae with distinct black spots at base of spines, tarsi 

 brownish-yellow; ventrals piceous, genital segment red. Joint 1 of an- 

 tennae reddish-brown, three-fourths as long as width of vertex; 2 brown- 

 ish-yellow, paler toward base, three and one-half times as long as 1 ; 3 and 

 4 dusky, 3 two-fifths as long as 2, 4 one-half the length of 3. Length, 

 3 — 3.6 mm. 



Cheshunt and Leominster, England, Aug. 13 — 29 (British 

 Mus. Coll.). A European species recorded in this country from 



