960 FAMILY XXIX. — MIRIDiE. 



country from New England west to New York and southwest 

 to District of Columbia. Recorded also from California. Oc- 

 curs on apple and alder. 



1097 (— ). Psallus drakei Knight, 1923, 464. 



Elongate, sides feebly curved. Black, strongly shining; clothed with 

 the usual two types of pubescence; membrane and veins fuscous, a small 

 hyaline spot near tip of cuneus; color of legs as in key; ventrals black, 

 strongly shining, silvery-pubescent on sides. Antennae black, joint 1 five- 

 eighths as long as width of vertex, 2 four times as long as 1, 3 three- 

 fifths the length of 2, 4 two-thirds as long as 3. Beak reaching between 

 hind coxa?. Length, 4 — 4.4 mm. 



Recorded from the Cranberry Lake region of New York and 

 Nordegg, Alberta. 



XII. Cylloceps Uhler, 1893, 711. 



Elongate-elliptical or subparallel. Head short, vertical, tylus 

 projecting a little in front of eyes, vertex convex, not margined 

 at base; beak reaching behind middle coxae; pronotum trape- 

 zoidal, almost flat, sides with a calloused margin, calli large, al- 

 most contiguous, hind margin feebly sinuate ; scutellum equi- 

 lateral, convex; elytra entire, much surpassing abdomen, pale 

 translucent; membrane almost as long as corium, joints 2 and 3 

 of tarsi subequal. One species occurs in Florida. 



1098 (1268). Cylloceps pellicia Uhler, 1893, 712. 



Pale brownish-yellow, shining, minutely pubescent. Head yellow, 

 median line and tylus black; pronotum dull yellow, tinged with brownish 

 toward base; scutellum dark brown; elytra pale translucent, inner mar- 

 gins of clavus and corium fuscous, vein at base of membrane piceous; 

 membrane pale fuscous, veins brownish ; legs pale yellow, femora dusky 

 at base, tips piceous; ventrals yellow, dusky at middle, orange red on 

 sides; genital segments piceous. Joint 1 of antennae black, its base and 

 apex yellowish; remainder dusky yellowish, joint 2 four times as long as 

 1, 3 three-fourths as long as 2. Pronotum finely scabrous, transversely 

 wrinkled, sparsely and finely punctate. Scutellum with a vague median 

 carina. Length, 3 mm. 



A neotropical species described from Cuba and St. Vincent 

 and recorded from Biscayne Bay, Fla. 



XIII. Criocoris Fieber, 1858, 319. 



Oblong-oval, subopaque black species having the head 

 pointed, declivent, distinctly prolonged in front of base of an- 

 tennae, inserted in thorax to eyes, vertex convex, not margined ; 

 beak reaching middle coxae; pronotum trapezoidal, sides feeblv 



