September, 1941 
North America east of the 100th meridian. 
Illinois Records.—One hundred three 
males and 77 females, taken May 27 to Sept. 
24, are from Albion, Alto Pass, Ashley, 
Bloomington, Cave-in-Rock, Champaign, 
Chicago, Darwin, Decatur, Delavan, Dol- 
son, Dubois, East St. Louis, Elizabethtown, 
Fountain Bluff, Galena, Galesburg, Gol- 
conda, Grafton, Grand Detour, Grand 
Tower, Grandview, Grayville, Hardin, Ha- 
vana, Herod, Kampsville, Kankakee, Kan- 
sas, Kappa, Karnak, Keithsburg, Lawrence- 
ville, Metropolis, Monticello, Mounds, 
Mount Carmel, Muncie, Murphysboro, 
Oquawka, Palos Park, Pulaski, St. Joseph, 
Snyder, Springfield, Starved Rock State 
Park, Ullin, Urbana, York. 
Reuteroscopus sulphureus (Reuter) 
Psallus sulphureus Reuter (1907, p. 23). 
Aputts.—Length 3.30, width 1.18. Gen- 
eral color yellow, sometimes with a green- 
ish tinge. Inner apical angles of corium, tip 
of clavus, anal area of membrane, and spot 
on imner angle of cuneus, fuscous. Body 
clothed with yellowish to fuscous pubescence, 
base of each hair with a small fuscous spot, 
also sparsely set with small tufts of silvery 
scalelike hairs, arranged in series on median 
line and outer margins of head and pronotal 
disk, and present to some extent on clavus 
and corium; membrane with dark spots on 
a clear background, fuscous color forming 
a short transverse bar touching margin just 
beyond tip of cuneus, each side of this clear 
but with another, larger fuscous area situ- 
ated just before apex; femora thickly speck- 
led with small, pale fuscous spots. 
Host PLants.—I have collected this spe- 
cies on ragweed (Ambrosia sp.) and found it 
breeding on Sida spinosa in Georgia. Speci- 
mens were collected in Illinois on lamb’s 
quarter (Chenopodium album) and snow- 
berry (Symphoricarpos orbiculatus) as well 
as on ragweed. 
Known DistrispuTIon.—This species is 
common in the southern states and appears 
to find its northern limits of distribution in 
central Illinois. 
Illinois Records. — Twenty-two males 
and 29 females, collected June 5 to Oct. 2, 
are from Alton, Alto Pass, Ashley, Cave-in- 
Rock, Darwin, Dolson, Dongola, Dubois, 
Elizabethtown, Fairfield, Golconda, Hardin, 
Havana, Herod, Lawrenceville, Metropolis, 
Oquawka, Shawneetown, Vienna, York. 
KNIGHT: PLANT Bucs, or MiripAgz, oF ILLINOIS 49 
Criocoris Fieber 
Criocoris saliens (Reuter) 
Strongylotes saliens Reuter (1876, p. 88). 
Mace.—Fig. 91. Length 2.70, width 1.40. 
Head and body black, shining, clothed with 
white scalelike pubescence intermixed with 
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Fig. 91.—Criocoris saliens, oF. 
more erect pubescence; first and second an- 
tennal segments strongly thickened, thickness 
of second segment half as great as width of 
VG bEx< 
FeMALE.—Length 3.00, width 1.40; black, 
pubescence similar to that of male; antennae 
yellowish brown, entire first segment and 
base of second, black; second segment slen- 
der, scarcely more than half as thick as first. 
Host PLant.—Bedstraw (Galium apa- 
rine.) 
Known DistrispuTion.—California, Ida- 
ho, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Mas- 
sachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New 
York, Ontario, Pennsylvania, Texas, Vir- 
ginia, Washington. 
Illinois Records—ANtTI0cH: July 5-7, 
1932, Frison et al., 16. ELIZABETHTOWN: 
Midyaee,/=Sleeec( 932 eer eely.e ozier. sl. 9 
GRAND Tower: May 12, 1932, Frison, Ross 
