. Bulletin. Natural history; Natural history. September, 1941 Knight: Plant Bugs, or Miridae, of Illinois 49 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. M
. Bulletin. Natural history; Natural history. September, 1941 Knight: Plant Bugs, or Miridae, of Illinois 49 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). Adults.—Length , width 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 inner 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 Distribution.—This species is common in the southern states and appears to find its northern
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