1030 FAMILY XXXVI. — NAUCORIDTE. 



I. Pelocoris Stal, 1876, 42. 



To this genus belong those members of the family having 

 the eyes lunate, widely separated, their front portions converg- 

 ing and inner margins sinuate ; labrum subtriangular, its apex 

 obtuse; front margin of pronotum but feebly concave or sinu- 

 ate ; embolium flattened, covering the basal half of connexivum ; 

 under side of head and prosternum strongly carinate at middle ; 

 mesosternum elevated, obtusely tectiform ; front tibiae slender, 

 curved, received in a groove on under side of femora ; front 

 tarsi 1-jointed, destitute of claws; hind tarsi shorter than tibiae, 

 the latter with two rows of sub-appressed spines. Two of the 

 1,4 nominal species occur in our territory. 



KEY TO EASTERN SPECIES OF PELOCORIS. 



a. Front portion of pronotum, except at middle, with densely placed 

 very fine and shallow ocellate punctures, its side margins but 

 feebly flattened ; median lobe of sixth ventral of female not cleft. 



1172. FEMORATUS. 



aa. Front portion of pronotum, except at middle, densely, finely rugosely 

 shagreened or scabrous and with numerous scattered coarse punc- 

 tures, its side margins more broadly flattened; median lobe of sixth 

 ventral of female deeply cleft. 1173. carolinensis. 



1172 (1366). Pelocoris femoratus (Palisot de Beauvois), 1805, 237. 



Broadly oval, subdepressed. Head, prosternum, front portion of 

 pronotum, connexivum and sometimes the scutellum dull greenish-yellow, 

 the head usually with a median brown stripe, this 

 widened on apex and often extending back onto 

 pronotum; hind lobe of pronotum dull white with 

 scattered longitudinal darker marks; elytra, scutel- 

 lum usually, and under surface olive-brown or gray, 

 the clavus sometimes paler; legs and beak dull 

 greenish-yellow, the tips of tibiae and tarsi darker; 

 connexivals each with an oblong brown spot next the 

 incisure, their hind angles acute, slightly prolonged, 

 more so in male. Head with a vague lengthwise 

 median impression, the sides near eyes coarsely, 



Fig. 206, x 3. sparsely punctate. Pronotum more than twice as 



(After Champion). ., ., ,. , ,, ., . , 



wide as its median length, its transverse impressed 



line across basal fourth feeble; middle of front portion with a triangular 

 area marked with short transverse impressed lines, these regularly de- 

 creasing in length from the front, hind portion shagreened in wavy trans- 

 verse lines. Scutellum and elytra thickly very finely punctate, each punc- 

 ture enclosing a minute prostrate yellowish hair. Keel of mesosternum, 

 tarsi and genital segments each with numerous long inclined hairs. Male 

 with fifth and sixth ventrals formed of three movable parts; genital 

 oblong-oval, convex. Length, 9 — 11.5 mm. (Fig. 206). 



