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black, narrow pale area at base; fourth, 
1.09, black. Pronotum, length 0.83, width 
at base 1.51; fuscous to black, paler on calli 
and central area of disk, lower margin of 
propleura almost white. Scutellum pale, 
with a pair of well defined dark brown, 
subapical, marginal spots. Sternum pale, 
sides and pleura black. Dorsum rather uni- 
formly dark fuscous, with light-colored 
spots on embolium and a somewhat paler 
area at middle of corium. Clothed with fus- 
cous, simple pubescence, intermixed with 
white, silky hairs in numerous spots. Mem- 
brane almost colorless, speckled with numer- 
ous small brownish to fuscous spots, the 
preapical area and margins of areoles more 
evenly fuscous; veins fuscous, white areas 
present around apices of areoles. Legs 
black, marked with more or less confluent, 
white spots, these spots forming a _ well- 
defined preapical white annulus. Genital 
claspers distinctive; left clasper with inner 
arm much flattened, right clasper shaped 
much as in quercicola Knight. 
FEemMALe.—Length 5.30, width 2.00. Very 
similar to male in pubescence and colora- 
tion. 
Hasits.—Collected chiefly about lights; 
a single Illinois specimen was taken on 
cypress (Taxodium distichum). 
Known DistrisuTion.—District of Co- 
lumbia, Illinois, Iowa, Maryland, South 
Carolina. 
Illinois Record. — Karnak: July 28, 
1930, on Taxodium distichum, Knight & 
Ross, 1 ¢@. 
Phytocoris minutulus Reuter 
Phytocoris minutulus Reuter (1909, p. 24). 
Not taken in Illinois; known from Mary- 
land, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New 
York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Vir- 
ginia. 
Phytocoris fumatus Reuter 
Phytocoris fumatus Reuter (1909, p. 25). 
Mace.—Length 7.00, width 2.30. Head 
width 1.17, vertex 0.40; front with five ob- 
lique black lines on either side of median 
line and a transverse black area between 
bases of antennae; lower half of face white; 
base of tylus, base of jugum, and spot on 
dorsal margin at base of lorum, black; a 
rather irregular reddish band extends across 
middle of tylus. Rostrum, length 4.20, attain- 
ing base of genital segment, pale with apical 
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segment brownish. Antennae, first segment, 
length 1.57, equal to distance between pos- 
terior margin of pronotum and a line drawn 
through eyes at a point slightly before 
middle, black, with pale spots on dorsal side, 
two largest spots on apical half; second, 3.10, 
dark brown with pallid areas on dorsal side. 
at base and middle, areas at middle vague; 
third, 1.79, black with almost white area 
0.17 wide at base; fourth, 1.30, black. Hem- 
elytra fuscous to black; a large yellowish 
and translucent spot at apex of corium near 
base of cuneus; embolium irregularly trans- 
lucent and darkened with fuscous; cuneus 
very slightly lighter at base, a tuft of black 
hair on inner margin near base and a simi- 
lar tuft at apex of corium; pubescence black, 
intermixed with pale, silky pubescence. 
Membrane pale, thickly and rather uniform- 
ly marbled with fusco-brownish; veins dark, 
pale at apex of larger areole. Legs very 
dark brown, entire coxae light colored except 
spot near base; trochanters pallid; femora 
with numerous, small, pallid spots, a slightly 
larger, nearly colorless spot on anterior as- 
pect near apex, this mark not quite forming 
a subapical band; front and middle tibiae 
pale at middle and with another, rather dis- 
tinct pale band at middle of apical half; 
tarsi fuscous. Venter black, with yellowish 
pubescence ; genital segment and claspers dis- 
tinctive, fig. 175. 
FEMALE.—Length 7.60, width 2.60; larger 
and more robust than male; very similar to 
male in coloration, but dorsum lighter col- 
ored; first antennal segment longer than in 
male, equal to distance between posterior 
margin of pronotum and a line drawn 
through front margins of eyes. 
Known DisrrisutTion.—District of Co- 
lumbia, Georgia, Illinois, Massachusetts, 
New Jersey, New York, North Carolina. 
Illinois Record—Cuampaicn: July 7, 
1887, CAS Hartaiece 
Phytocoris conspurcatus Knight 
Phytocoris conspurcatus Knight (1920, p. 61). 
This species is distinquished by its dark, 
marbled membrane and by the pale band at 
the middle of the first and second antennal 
segments; the dorsum is thickly clothed with 
black, deciduous, scalelike hairs intermixed 
with small patches of dense, white, woolly 
hairs. 
Mate.—Length 5.90, width 2.10. Head 
width 1.06, vertex 0.34; infuscation similar 
