958 FAMILY XXIX. — MIRID,E. 



tarsi yellowish, joint 1 and sometimes 3 brown. Antennae straw-yellow, 

 joint 1 dark at base, two-thirds as long as width of vertex, 2 three and 

 one-half times the length of 1, 3 three-fifths as long as 2, 4 one-thix-d the 

 length of 3. Upper surface clothed with short appressed yellow hairs. 

 Length, 3 mm. 



Epping Forest, England, June 10 — 15 (British Mus. Coll.). A 

 European species recorded in this country from Ontario and 

 New York. 



1091 ( — ). PSALLUS ALNICENATUS Knight, 1923, 466. 



Elongate, sides subparallel, male, suboval, female. Head fuscous- 

 black, vertex yellowish-brown; pronotum blackish, basal half paler; 

 elytra yellowish-brown to dusky, subtranslucent, clavus and apical half 

 of corium tinged with fuscous; membrane pale fuscous, a hyaline paler 

 spot near tip of cuneus, veins yellowish; legs dull yellow, femora with 

 two rows of black spots on outer face and a vague dark line above; knees, 

 tibial spines and spot at base of each, black; ventrals black, yellowish- 

 pubescent. Joint 1 of antenna? black, tip pale, almost as long as width of 

 vertex; 2 fuscous-brown, tip and often the middle, paler, about four 

 times as long as 1 ; 3 and 4 pale fuscous, 3 three-fourths as long as 2, 4 

 three-fifths the length of 3. Beak reaching first ventral. Length, 3.7 — 

 4.5 mm. 



Ithaca, N. Y., July 26 (Minn. Univ. Coll.). Ranges from Nova 

 Scotia and New England west to Minnesota. Breeds on hoary 

 alder, Alnus incana (L.). 



1092 (— ). Psallus morrisoni Knight, 1923, 464. 



Elongate, subparallel, male, suboval, female. Black or fuscous-black, 

 thickly clothed with appressed silvery hairs ; membrane uniformly fus- 

 cous, veins slightly paler; femora as in key; ventrals black, with scale- 

 like pubescence on sides. Joint 1 of antennae black, four-fifths as long 

 as width of vertex; 2 dark brown, paler at middle, three and two-third 

 times longer than 1, in male as long as width of pronotum at base; 3 

 brownish-yellow, three-fourths the length of 2; 4 pale fuscous, two-thirds 

 as long as 3. Length, 3.2 — 3.6 mm. 



Cramer and Lake Co., Minn., Aug. 10 — 15 (Minn. Univ. Coll.) . 

 Recorded only from Massachusetts, where it was collected from 

 sweet fern and goldenrod. 



1093 (— ). Psallus parshleyi Knight, 1923, 465. 



Head black, vertex somewhat paler; pronotum and scutellum black, 

 both they and elytra clothed with pale appressed scale-like hairs and 

 suberect yellowish ones; elytra black, with pale markings as in key; mem- 

 brane fuscous, a pale spot near tip of cuneus, veins dusky; legs straw- 

 yellow, apical halves of femora with two rows of spots and a line above 

 and below, tibia? with knees, spines and spot at base of each spine, black, 

 tarsi fuscous; under surface black, shining, pale pubescent. Joints 1 and 



