April-June, 1920 Bulletin Brooklyn Entomological Society 51 



Phytocoris eximius Reuter. Caps. Am. Bor., p. 67, 1876. 



J*. Length 5.7 mm., width 2 mm. Head: width .94 mm., 

 vertex .35 mm. ; yellowish, frequently tinged with reddish ; 

 geminate mark at base of tylus and apical half excluding a 

 pale spot on each side opposite tips of lorse, upper margin of 

 lorse, jugse, bucculse, and a ray passing lower margin of eye, 

 reddish brown to fuscous or black; front clothed with long 

 pale hairs. Rostrum (length 2.4 mm.) attaining basal margin 

 of genital segment, yellowish, blackish toward the apex. An- 

 tennce: I, length 1.28 mm., yellowish, irregularly mottled with 

 fuscous, bearing five or six long pale setae ; II, 2.77 mm., 

 fuscous, pale at base for a space of .17 mm., the infuscation 

 distinctly paler on the middle third and becoming darker to- 

 ward each end; III, 1.6 mm., dark fuscous, pale at base for 

 space of .14 mm. and again very narrowly at apex; IV, 1.25 

 mm., blackish. Pronotuin: length .91 mm., width at base 1.6 

 mm., anterior angles .57 mm., collar .64 mm. ; side margins 

 very slightly sulcate, gently rounded ; disk moderately arched, 

 an even contour maintained behind calli and at side margins, 

 basal angles gently rounded; calli oval, slightly separated, de- 

 limited behind by an impressed margin, pale with one or two 

 fuscous m'arks on the outer half ; disk testaceous to fuscous, 

 central area frequently grayish green, paler anteriorly, narrow 

 basal margin pale, sub-basal margin with six blackish points 

 that frequently join; disk distinctly hairy, longest at the an- 

 terior angles, hairs taking the color of the surface where they 

 arise ; collar pale, marked with reddish each side of the median 

 line, bearing several prominent pale hairs ; sides blackish, lower 

 margin and a mark across the base of the coxal cleft, pale. 

 Scutellum testaceous, a pair of diverging black vittse just be- 

 fore the apex, becoming paler toward the median line; meso- 



' scutum moderately exposed, sloping abruptly downward at the 

 lateral angles ; heavily clothed with a mixture of pale and yel- 

 lowish pubescence. Sternum blackish,- a pale ray on each side 

 in line with the lower side margin of the pronotum ; pleura 

 fuscous, narrow margin of sclerites, basalar piece and orifice, 

 pale. Hemelytra: clothed with prominent yellowish pubes- 

 cence intermixed with groups of white deciduous tomentum, 

 having black hairs arising from the dark markings ; greenish 

 gray to fuscous, corium with base, middle, a triangular spot 

 just before the cuneus, several spots on the embolium, paler 

 and more or less translucent ; tip of embolium, an oblique or 

 nearly triangular patch lying just inside of the cubitus at apex 

 of corium, bordering the claval suture except on basal one 

 third, fuscous to black; clavus more or less fuscous either side 



