. Bulletin. Natural history; Natural history. 96 Illinois Natural History Survey Bulletin Vol. 22, Art. 1 at posterior margin. . catulus, p. 97 Hemelytra and scutellum greenish; length of second antennal segment greater than width of pronotum at posterior margin; membrane dusky; veins and areoles green flavosparsus, p. 96 Melanotrichus flavosparsus (Sahlberg) Phytocoris flavosparsus Sahlberg (1842, p. 411). Male.—Length , width Head width , vertex Antennae, first seg- ment, length ; second, Pronotum, FLAVOSPARSUS. cO CATULUS Fig. 126.— Male genital claspers of Mel
. Bulletin. Natural history; Natural history. 96 Illinois Natural History Survey Bulletin Vol. 22, Art. 1 at posterior margin. . catulus, p. 97 Hemelytra and scutellum greenish; length of second antennal segment greater than width of pronotum at posterior margin; membrane dusky; veins and areoles green flavosparsus, p. 96 Melanotrichus flavosparsus (Sahlberg) Phytocoris flavosparsus Sahlberg (1842, p. 411). Male.—Length , width Head width , vertex Antennae, first seg- ment, length ; second, Pronotum, FLAVOSPARSUS. cO CATULUS Fig. 126.— Male genital claspers of Melan- otrichus. .y, left clasper; C, right clasper. length , width at base General color clear green, becoming yellowish on callosities, head and ventral surface; mem- brane dusky; areoles and veins green. Clothed with simple, erect, bristlelike, fus- cous pubescence, intermixed with spots of silvery, sericeous pubescence. Genital clasp- ers as in fig. 126. Female.—Length , width Head width , vertex Antennae, first seg- ment, length ; second, Pronotum, length , width at base Color and pubescence similar to those of male. Food Plants.—Lamb's quarter, known likewise as pigweed {Chenopodium album) ; also, Illinois specimens were collected on hawthorn {Crataegus sp.), beet {Beta vul- garis), willow {Salix sp.), cypress {Taxo- dium distichum), spruce {Picea sp.) and sunflower {Helianthus sp.). Some of these records are undoubtedly accidental. Known Distribution. — Common over the eastern United States. Illinois Records. — One hundred forty males and 174 females, taken May 12 to Oct. 9, are from Algonquin, Alton, Alto Pass, Anna, Antioch, Areola, Beardstown, Bloomington, Champaign, Chicago, Clayton, Colona, Delavan. Des Plaines, Dixon, Dol- son, Dongola, Elizabeth, Elizabethtown, Fairmount, Forest City, Galena, Gales- burg, Grafton, Grand Detour, Grand Tower, Grandview, Hatton, Havana, Kampsville, Kankakee, Karnak, Keithsbur
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