SUBFAMILY IX. — PHYLIN^E. 963 



Frequent throughout the southern third of Florida, Dec. 4 — 

 April 5. Occurs on ferns in dense hammocks and on herbage 

 along the roadsides. Recorded also by Barber as R. forticornis 

 Reut., a Texas species, from Biscayne Bay, Fla. 



XVI. Atractotomus Fieber, 1858, 317. 



Small oblong-oval species having the body sparsely clothed 

 with whitish or yellowish appressed scale-like hairs, intermixed 

 with fine, suberect darker ones ; head transverse, its front sub- 

 vertical, not produced in front of eyes, tylus narrow, com- 

 pressed ; beak reaching or surpassing hind coxae ; pronotum 

 with base truncate, much wider than apex, sides straight, disk 

 inclined toward apex; elytra entire, surpassing abdomen, 

 cuneus short, its fracture often deep ; hind femora swollen. 

 tibiae with black spines. Two introduced European species and 

 one variety occur in our territory. 



KEY TO EASTERN' SPECIES OP ATRACTOTOMUS. 



a. Joint 2 of antennae swollen, subequal in thickness in both sexes; front 

 margin of pronotum and base of head clothed with prominent sub- 

 erect pale yellowish hairs; host plant, apple. 1102. mall 

 aa. Joint 2 of antennas rather slender in male, strongly swollen in 

 female; pronotum and head without pubescence as in a. 

 b. Second antennal distinctly longer than width of head ; larger, 

 length 3 — 3.5 mm.; host plant, pine. 1103. magnicornis. 

 bb. Second antennal in female subequal in length to width of head; 

 smaller, length 2.5 mm.; host plant, hemlock. 



1103a. var. buenoi. 



1102 ( — ). Atractotomus mali (Meyer), 1843, 63. 



Dark brown or black, the two types of pubescence conspicuous ; mem- 

 brane dark fuscous, veins and a small spot near tip of cuneus paler: legs 

 brown or black, tibia? paler toward apex, their tips and those of tarsi 

 blackish. Joints 1 and 2 of antenna? black or dark brown, 1 clavate, two- 

 thirds as long as width of vertex, 2 strongly swollen, subfusiform, 

 thickly clothed with stiff forward-inclined hairs, three and one-half times 

 as long as 1 ; 3 and 4 dusky yellow, very slender, united as long as 2, 4 

 one-half the length of 3. Length, 3.2 — 3.5 mm. 



Theydon Bois, England, July (British Mus. Coll.). Recorded 

 by Knight (1924, 65) from Wolfville, Nova Scotia, where it 

 was predaceous on a green apple aphid. 



1103 ( — ). Atractotomus magnicornis (Fallen) , 1807, 99. 



Elongate, subparallel, male, suboval, female. Head, pronotum and 

 scutellum black or dark brown ; clavus and corium usually chestnut-brown 

 or tinged with reddish, cuneus often dark brown; membrane pale fus- 

 cous, veins yellowish, cells brownish; femora fuscous-brown to black; 

 tibia? yellowish-white to brownish with minute darker spots at base of 



