SUBFAMILY IX. — PHYLIN^. 



961 



concave at middle, base truncate, two-thirds wider than apex, 

 disk feebly convex, calli small, rounded, not contiguous ; meso- 

 scutum almost concealed ; scutellum small, almost flat ; elytra 

 entire, surpassing abdomen, cuneus large, feebly deflected ; 

 upper surface clothed with conspicuous deciduous appressed 

 whitish scale-like hairs, intermixed with fine suberect black 

 ones. One species ocurs in the eastern states. 



1099 (1223). Criocoris saliens (Reuter), 1S76, 88. 



Oblong-oval, broader in female. Head, pronotum and scutellum 

 black, feebly shining; elytra fuscous-black, subopaque; membrane fusco- 



translucent, with a white dash near apex 

 of cuneus; legs fuscous-brown, apical 

 two-thirds of tibiae and basal half of 

 tarsi dull yellow, the spines b'ack. 

 Female with joint 1 of antennae blackish- 

 brown, three-fourths as long as width of 

 vertex; 2 yellow, base blackish, apex 

 dusky, much more slender than 1, as 

 long as pronotum; 3 fuscous, paler at 

 base, three-fifths as long as 2 ; 4 fuscous, 

 scarcely one-third as long as 3. Male 

 with joints 1 and 2 fuscous-brown, 1 

 clavate, 2 subfusiform, concave on outer 

 side, thickly pilose, much thicker and 

 nearly four times longer than 1 ; 3 and 

 4 much thinner, dusky yellow, 4 two- 

 fifths the length of 3. Length, 2.7—3 

 mm. (Fig. 191). 

 Fig. 191, Male X 11. (Original). M . „ T , ,, -. n t 



Marion Co., Ind., May 19 — June 

 6 ; swept from low herbage along the densely wooded banks of 

 streams. Ottawa, Ont., June 29 (Van Dusee) . Recorded from 

 Quebec, Ontario, New Jersey, New York, Texas and California. 

 The C. canadensis Van D. (1912a, 511) is a synonym, differing 

 only in the largely pale second antennal of female. 



XIV. Excentricus Reuter, I, 1878, 89. 



Small oval, pubescnt species having the head triangular, as 

 broad across eyes as long, its front declivent ; vertex not cari- 

 nate ; eyes large, contiguous to pronotum, but slightly overlap- 

 ping its front angles ; pronotum short, subtrapezoidal, its sides 

 declivent, humeral angles rounded, hind margin broadly con- 

 cave, disk smooth, calli obsolete; mesoscutum narrowly ex- 

 posed ; scutellum broad, triangular, equilateral ; elytra entire, 

 widened behind, surpassing abdomen; cuneus strongly de- 



