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brown, clavus darker than corium except bordering claval suture. 

 Antennae: Segment i, length .33 mm., f usco-brownish ; ii, 

 1.75 mm., greatest thickness .11' mm., gradually thickened from 

 base toward apex, slightly exceeding thickness of segment i, dark 

 brownish black, more nearly black on apical half; iii, .66mm., 

 fuscous, more nearly pale on basal half; iv, .39mm., fuscous, 

 paler at base. 



Female: Length 4.6 mm., width 1.67 mm., from tip of tylus to 

 basal margin of pronotum 1.55 mm.; very similar to the male in 

 form and coloration; antennal segment ii, length 1.75 mm., thick- 

 ness and coloration similar to that of male. 



Occurs on Quercus. 



New York, Minnesota. 



Tribe SYSTELLONOTINI. 

 Sericophanes Reuter. 

 S. heidemanni Poppius. 



^Sericophanes ocellatus Osborn, Proc. Iowa Acad. Sci., v, 238, fie. 16, 

 1898. 



Sericophanes heidemanni Poppius, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg., lviii, 260, 1914. 

 Sericophanes noctuans Knight, Ent. News., xxviii, 4, 1917. 



Male: Length 3.4 mm., width 1 mm. ; color dark chestnut to 

 black, legs yellowish brown, tibiae darker, posterior coxae pale; 

 antennae yellowish brown, darker on segments iii and iv, segment 

 iv slightly compressed ; hemelytra velvety brown, darker on base 

 of clavus, two transverse irregular silvery sheen bars over the 

 brown, a cream-colored round spot on the clavus just beyond 

 scutellum ; membrane lightly inf umed, pale bordering apical one- 

 third of cuneus. 



Female: (brachypterous) : Length 3.1 mm., width of abdomen 

 .97 mm. ; ant-like in form, yellowish brown, prothorax subglobose ; 

 hemelytra much reduced, only reaching to base of third abdominal 

 tergite, cream-colored spot present just beyond scutellum; abdo- 

 men nearly subglobose, pleural margin prominent, segments 4-7 

 dark brownish to piceous, paler beneath bordering ovipositor. 



Macropterous and brachypterous females are described and 

 figured by Osborn (1898) ; found to occur on grassy ridges. 



Males are frequently collected at light. In New York, Dr. C. P. 

 Alexander reports this species as flying up in large numbers from 

 the grass after sundown. 



New Haven, 26 July, 1910, 30 May, 191 1, 28 June, 7 July, 1920 

 (B. H. W.). 



Subfamily Mirinae. 



Key to Genera. 



1. Pronotum distinctly swollen at the middle, as wide there or wider 



than at the hind margin 2 



Pronotum widest at the base, not noticeably swollen at the middle 3 



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