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Strongly shining, dusky pubescent. Scutellum, sternum, pleura, 

 and ostiolar peritreme, black. 



Hemelytra : Embolar margins nearly straight ; uniformly black, 

 strongly shining ; clothed with minute, dusky to black pubescence, 

 longer and more prominent on cuneus and embolium. Membrane 

 and veins uniformly fuscous, scarcely paler bordering apex of 

 cuneus. 



Legs : Pale to yellowish ; base of hind coxae and apices of tarsi, 

 fuscous ; devoid of black spots. Venter black, strongly shining, 

 clothed with yellowish and dusky pubescence. 



Female: Length 3.9 mm., width 1.34 mm.; very similar to the 

 male in form and coloration. 



Food plant: Hazelnut (Cor ylus americana). 



Holotype: Male, 2 July, 1920, Ithaca, N. Y. (H. H. Knight) ; author's 

 collection. Allotype: same data as the type. Paratypes : Males (2) and 

 female, taken with types on hazelnut (Corylus americana) . Connecticut — 

 Male, 7 July, 1920, New Haven (B. H. Walden). Massachusetts — 

 Female, 11 July, 1907, Woburn. Minnesota — Females (4) 6 July, 1919, 

 Anoka County; females (3), 20 July, 1920, Gray Cloud Island (H. H. 

 Knight). Female, 11 July, 1920, Becker County; male, 10 July, 1920, 

 Morrison County (A. A. Nichol). Males (4) females (6), 22 June, 1922, 

 Kings Bluff, Winona County (H. H. Knight). New York — Female, 24 

 July, 1915, White Plains (J. R. Torre-Bueno). 



Rhinocapsus Uhler. 



Key to Species. 



1. Antennal segment ii uniformly dark reddish or black 2 



Antennal segment ii black apically, pale to reddish on basal one- 

 third to one-half vanduzeii 



2. Antennal segment ii in length, not or scarcely equal to width of 



pronotum at base ; larger, length 4.3-4.6 mm rubricans 



Antennal segment ii in length distinctly greater than width of pro- 

 notum at base ; smaller, length 3.4 mm miniatus n. sp. 



R. vanduzeii Uhler. 



Trans. Md. Acad. Sci., i, 82, 1890. 



Length 3.4mm., width 1.4mm.; fuscous to black; pronotum, 

 vertex and bordering eyes, antennal segment i and basal half of ii, 

 reddish orange ; apical half of antennal segment ii black, somewhat 

 incrassated ; legs pale yellowish, femora with two rows of black 

 dots on anterior face. 



Food plant: Wild red raspberry (Rubus idacus). 



Brookfield, 2.7 Julv, 1910 (E. L. D.) ; New Haven, 4 July, 1921 

 (B. H. W.). 



R. rubricans (Provancher). 



Pet. Faune Ent. Can., iii, 154, 1887. 



Length 4.2 mm., width 1.7 mm. ; differs from vanduzeii by being 

 slightly larger and more reddish, antennal segment ii entirely 

 black and more distinctly incrassated. 



