80 Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society Vol. XIIl 
THE GENUS SERICOPHANES WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF 
TWO NEW SPECIES. (MIRIDA, HEMIP.)* 
By Harry H. Knicut, Ithaca, New York. 
The species of Sericophanes have scarcely been known to stu- 
dents of Hemiptera, though the genus was founded by Reuter in 
1876 on the single species ocellatus, in his paper “ Capsinz ex 
America boreali in Museo Holmiensi asservate descripte ab.”7 
While traveling through the southwestern United States with 
the Cornell Biological Expedition in 1917 the writer collected the 
type species of the genus and two other new forms which are 
described in the present paper. 
The genus Sericophanes is characterized by the claws bearing 
free arolia with converging tips, third segment of the antenne 
equally thick as the second; males macropterous, slender, hem- 
elytra more or less constricted at the middle, thorax campanulate, 
the apex of the pronotum scarcely greater than the width of the 
vertex; females brachypterous, ant-like, abdomen short and 
broad. 
Key To THE MALES oF SERICOPHANES. 
1. With an ocellate cream colored spot at the middle of the clavus, more 
or less pruinose on the hemelytra, scutellum not noticeably arched (2) 
Spot on the clavus not distinctly ocellate, transverse and extending onto 
the corium, or entirely lacking, scutellum distinctly arched........ (3) 
2. Smaller, very slender, body yellowish brown.......... ocellatus Reuter. 
iLamscin, Inochy Geils CaeStmbtt IDFONRM. ooacoscaccoccucse> noctuans Knight. 
3. Yellowish brown, a triangular white area each side on the corium having 
HUSH EH OLED ot OLA EEALOUGIERIADIS. 4G cine oc Gs SetrO tod Baloo cick triangularis n. sp. 
Dark chestnut, a transverse white area on the clavus and extending 
APO GE CORMAN AAA ae ae yee ieee yele. ce cee elem ae transversus 1. sp. 
Sericophanes ocellatus Reuter. (Caps. Amer. Bor., p. 79, 1876.) 
The males of this rare and interesting little species were taken by the 
writer at different points in Texas while collecting with a tent trap light 
in the semiarid regions. It is evident that Belfrage must have obtained 
* Contribution from the Department of Entomology of Cornell Uni- 
versity. 
+ Ofversight af Kongl. Vetenskaps-Akademiens Forhandlingar, 1876, No. 
9, Stockholm. 
