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L. Is, N. Y. (Chris. E. Olsen). 2 $ Aug. 12-14, Portland, 



Conn. (B. H. Walden). i 5 Aug. 5, East River, Conn (C. R. 



Ely). I (^ July, Woods Hole; i (^ Aug. 8, Chester; i J* Aug. 



9, Riverside; i J* Aug. 15, Sunderland; i J* Aug. 19, Swamp- 



scott; I $ Sept. 27, Northampton, Mass. fH. M. Parshley). 



I $ Sept. 12, Casco Bay, Me. (G. P. Engelhardt). 5 d", 7 ? 



Aug. 6-8, Parry Sound, Can. (H. S. Parish). 



This species is found on a number of plants in various situa- 

 tions, and is largely if not wholly predaceous as are a number of 

 closely related species in this group. 



The writer's determination of the species is based on a com- 

 parison of male claspers with a specimen which Reuter deter- 

 mined as eximius in 1909 by comparison with the type in the 

 Stockholm Museum. This specimen was returned to the late 

 Mr. O. Heidemann at the U. S. National Museum and was used 

 by him as a basis for determinations of eximius. The redescrip- 

 tion that Reuter gives for eximius in 1909-^ is evidently drawn 

 from other specimens, doubtless retained by him, and apparently 

 refers to a different species, a form with irrorate membrane. 



From the standpoint of wide distribution and determinations 

 by Reuter and Heidemann, the species here described and figured 

 is more likely to prove identical with eximius when comparison 

 with the type is made, than any other species of the several 

 recorded as eximius from the eastern United States. It is 

 entirely possible that the type eximius may prove to be a species 

 distinct from any occurring east of the Mississippi river, thus no 

 final disposal of the species may be had until some competent 

 systematist examines carefully and records the genital claspers 

 of the type, which fortunately is a male. 



Phytocoris brevifurcatus new species. 



(^. Length 5.8 mm., width 2.14 mm. Very similar to exi- 

 mius but without the heavy oblique fuscous mark at apex of 

 corium ; second antennal segment darker fuscous on the middle 

 third; head and pronotum distinctly grayish green on the paler 

 parts ; posterior femora with smaller irrorations, not distinctly 

 banded with pale; genital claspers and sedeagus distinctive of 

 the species Tpl. i, fig. 2). 



Holotype: $ Aug. 6, Batavia, N. Y. (H. H. Knight) ; author's 



3 " Bemerkungen iiber Xearktische Capsiden," etc.. Acta. Soc. Sci. 

 Fennicae, xxxvi, Xo. 2, p. 23, 1909. 



