September, 1941 
Length of second antennal segment 
less than twice width of head across 
GEES eaten ergs a ore a eee 24 
24. Corium with outer half bearing sub- 
BreCtMmLlAC a ialrsu es te gal Ga 5) res 25 
Corium with outer half bearing pale 
hairs; or, if dark, pubescence minute 
MeGecloce| Vad DPressed, ©.) i552 26 
25. Corium bearing simple pubescence in- 
termixed with more closely ap- 
pressed, sericeous pubescence..... 
(he eee heidemanni, p. 88 
Corium bearing only suberect, bristly 
PUesGenCcer tt. davisi, p. 87 
Bemiecneth hoteover 5.20...2...:....4- Pa 
enethe>.oUvormores: =. o..6 3 ict. 28 
27. Corium infuscated across its full 
width; pubescence very short, ap- 
Prcosedssicnetiies O0—5: 20.8... 5an 
ntl ee ee ee incurva, p. 88 
Corium reddish on its outer half; pu- 
bescence suberect, pale in color; 
length 4.20-4.30...... minor, p. 88 
28. Outer half of cortum fuscous to black 
Sop shea hare cuneata, p. 89 
Outer half of corium orange to red. . .29 
29. Pubescence on dorsum minute, closely 
appressed; embolium never pale, 
yellowish to red like outer half of 
CEU Teta ete ste amorphae, p. 90 
Pubescence on dorsum suberect; em- 
bolium usually pale or white...... 
gig ts na ae ae lathyri, p. 91 
Lopidea confluenta (Say) 
Capsus confluentus Say (1832, p. 23; 1859, 
p. 341). 
Matre.—Length 6.30, width 2.10. Yel- 
lowish orange, tinged with reddish; broad 
area on either side of commissure, entire 
membrane, scutellum, and variable area on 
pronotal disk, fuscous; antennae, tylus, ros- 
trum, base of head, and a stripe each side 
of front, black; legs mostly blackish, with 
trochanters and apices of coxae yellowish; 
genital claspers, fig. 121, distinctive for 
species. 
FEMALE.—Fig. 122. Length 6.50, width 
2.40; more robust than male, but very sim- 
ilar in coloration. 
Foop PLants.—Leafcup (Polymnia uve- 
dalia and probably P. canadensis); in Illi- 
nois specimens were collected also on sweet 
William (Phlox sp.), daisy (Chrysanthe- 
mum sp.), red clover (Trifolium pratense), 
KNIGHT: PLANT Bucs, or MiripAg, oF ILLINOIS 87 
persimmon (Diospyros virginiana), willow 
(Salix sp.), snowberry (Symphoricarpos or- 
biculatus), locust (Robinia pseudoacacia) 
Fig. 122.—Lopidea confluenta, 9. 
and cypress (T'axodium distichum). Several 
of these plants undoubtedly are not hosts 
of this mirid. 
Known DistripuTion.—Widely distrib- 
uted in the eastern United States, but more 
abundant in the upper Mississippi valley. 
Illinois Records. — Ninety-four males 
and 97 females, taken June 10 to Aug. 21, 
are from Anna, Beardstown, Bloomington, 
Dolson, Dubois, Elizabethtown, Ernst, 
Galesburg, Golconda, Grafton, Grand 
Tower, Grantsburg, Grayville, Havana, 
Herod, Kansas, Lawrenceville, Monticello, 
Muncie, Palos Park, Pike, Pulaski, Shaw- 
neetown, Starved Rock State Park, Urbana, 
Walnut Prairie, White Heath, Willow 
Springs. 
Lopidea davisi Knight 
Phlox Plant Bug 
Lopidea davisi Knight (1917d, p. 458.) 
Mave.—Length 5.50, width 2.00. Yel- 
lowish orange to reddish; antennae, legs, 
front of head, and rostrum, black; calli, base 
