September, 1941 
shining; clothed with yellowish, sericeous 
pubescence. Scutellum deep black, slender 
area at apex yellowish. Sternum and pleura 
black; ostiolar peritreme pale brown to yel- 
lowish. Hemelytra black; slender area at 
tip of embolium, and narrow areas at base 
and apex of cuneus, pale; slightly shining, 
clothed with intermixed yellowish and black 
pubescence; membrane and veins uniformly 
dark fuscous. Legs usually uniformly black; 
in paler forms, tibiae uniformly very dark 
brown, but never with indication of annula- 
tions. Venter uniformly black, clothed with 
pale brown to yellowish pubescence. 
FEMALE.—Length 5.30, width 2.80; em- 
boliar margins more strongly arcuate than 
in male, but general coloration similar. 
Host PLant.—Bedstraw (Galium apar- 
ine). 
Known DistrizuTion.—lIllinois, Iowa, 
Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, 
Ohio, Ontario, Pennsylvania. 
Illinois Record—Rock City: May 30, 
1938, Mohr & Burks, 24. 
Polymerus venaticus (Uhler) 
Poeciloscytus venaticus Uhler (1872, p. 414). 
Mave.—Length 5.90, width 2.30. Head 
width 1.04, vertex 0.46. Rostrum, length 
1.09, just attaining middle of sternum; pice- 
ous, only slightly paler at joints. Antennae, 
second segment, length 2.31, cylindrical, not 
equal in thickness to first segment. Hemely- 
tra elongate, tip of abdomen attaining mid- 
dle of cuneus, emboliar margins very slightly 
arcuate; black, moderately shining; thickly 
clothed with sericeous, pale pubescence, a 
few black hairs on embolium and cuneus; 
cuneus fulvous or reddish. Legs black, with 
basal halves of hind and middle femora, an- 
terior face of front femora except at apex, 
and two basal segments of tarsi, yellow. 
FeMALE.—Length 5.00, width 2.57; em- 
boliar margins strongly arcuate; shorter, 
more ovate and robust than male; coloration 
very similar to that of male, but coxae al- 
ways yellowish except for spot at base. 
Host Prant.—Goldenrod (Solidago al- 
tissima). 
Known Disrripution.—Alberta, British 
Columbia, Colorado, Connecticut, District 
of Columbia, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, 
_ Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Min- 
nesota, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New 
York, North Dakota, Ohio, Ontario, Penn- 
_ sylvania, Quebec, Vermont. 
KNIGHT: PLANT Bucs, or Mirip4Ag, or ILLINOIS 
169 
Illinois Records.—Eleven males and 24 
females, taken May 17 to July 4, are from 
Antioch, Champaign, Cypress, Elizabeth- 
town, Freeport, Galena, Oakwood, Odin, 
Palos Park, St. Anne, Urbana. 
Pcolymerus punctipes Knight 
Polymerus punctipes Knight (1923d, p. 602). 
Mave.—Length 4.60, width 2.00. Head 
width 0.97, vertex 0.47; head black, with a 
yellow spot on either side of vertex at bor- 
der of eye; pubescence yellowish. Rostrum, 
length 1.23, almost attaining hind margin 
of mesosternum, yellowish, apex black. An- 
tennae, first segment, length 0.51, black, 
narrow yellowish area at base; second, 1.85, 
nearly cylindrical, slightly thicker at middle, 
nearly equal in thickness to first segment, 
black, clothed with mixed black and pale 
pubescence; third, 0.66, yellowish, with 
dusky tinge; fourth, 0.80, dusky. Pronotum, 
length 1.00, width at base 1.70; black, slight- 
ly shining, disk transversely rugulose; 
clothed with pale and yellowish, sericeous 
pubescence. Scutellum black, transversely 
rugulose; clothed with yellowish pubescence, 
more sericeous on basal angles. Sternum 
and pleura black; ostiolar peritreme yellow, 
becoming dusky on anterior lobe. Hemely- 
tra, with emboliar margins slightly arcuate 
on apical half; black; embolium and outer 
margin of cuneus yellowish or fulvous; sur- 
face scabriculous, slightly shining, clothed 
with golden, sericeous pubescence intermixed 
with darker hairs. Membrane rather uni- 
formly fusco-brownish, a small, nearly clear 
spot bordering apex of cuneus, veins yellow- 
ish. Legs fulvous, with spot at apices of fe- 
mora and apical segment of each tarsus 
black; hind femora with a group of from 
two to five fuscous points on anterior face 
at middle of apical half, a prominent hair 
rising from each of the two lower points; 
pubescence pale brown to yellowish, black 
on apical halves of femora. Venter black, 
clothed with pale brown to yellowish pubes- 
cense. 
FEMALE.—Length 5.20, width 2.40; em- 
boliar margins strongly arcuate on apical 
half; pubescence and color similar to those 
of male. Rostrum, length 1.31, nearly at- 
taining hind margin of sternum. 
Foop Priant.—Loosestrife (Lysimachia 
quadrifolia). 
Known DistripuTion.—District of Co- 
lumbia, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, 
