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Holotype: ^ July 31, Batavia, New York (H. H. Knight) ; 

 author's collection. Allotype: taken with the type. Paratypes: 

 2 S July 29, 2 ? July 30, 2(^, ? July 31, Batavia, N. Y. (H. H. 

 Knight). S July 24, Glen House, N. H. (C. W. Johnson). 



The writer took specimens only on the trunks of elm trees 

 (Ulmus) where the species is admirably concealed as it crouches 

 in crevices of the bark. 



Phytocoris lacunosus new species. ' v 1 



^. Length G.y mm., width 2.2 mm. Very similar to corti- 

 tectus only larger ; nearly the size of onustus but more slender 

 and paler in color; corium with a longitudinal pale area which 

 extends onto the base of the cuneus without interruption at 

 the cubitus ; flagellum and right genital clasper distinctive of 

 the species (PI. i. Fig. 4). 



Very similar to the male only slightly more robust. 

 Holotype: ^ July 27, McLean, New York (H. H. Knight) ; 

 author's collection. Allotype: taken with the type. Paratypes: 

 (^,25 topotypic. 



All the specimens were taken on the bark of Carpinus caro- 

 liniana found growing at the margin of Round Bog near Mc- 

 Lean, N. Y. \ 



Phytocoris salicis new species. 



^. Length 6 mm., width 2.1 mm. Very similar to eximius 

 but distinctly brownish above; fuscous coloration of the heme- 

 lytra interspersed with brownish maculations ; second antennal 

 segment more distinctly pale fuscous, becoming dark only at 

 apex and next to the pale basal annulation ; membrane paler 

 on the central area and with a median pale ray extending to 

 apex; genital claspers and flagellum distinctive of the species 

 (PI. I, Fig. 13). 



5. Very similar to the male in size and coloration. 



Holotype: $ July 31, Batavia, New York (H. H. Knight) ; 

 author's collection. Allotype: taken with type. Paratypes: 2 ^, 

 I ? July 13, 2 J", 3 ? July 25, I c^, 5 ? July 29, I c^, 3 ? July 30, 

 I S July 31, 2 ? Aug. I, 2 c^, I 2 Aug. 2, c^, 3 ? Aug. 6, 5 $, 

 5 $ Aug. 10, 2 5 Aug. 17, <^ Aug. 20, Batavia ; $ Aug. 2, Honeoye 

 Falls ; 2 ^ July 24, 2 ^ July 26, Ithaca ; J*, 2 $ July 27, McLean, 

 New York (H. H. Knight). $ July, Orient, L. Is., N. Y. (Wm. 

 T. Davis). ? July 22, Ridgewood, N. J. (M. D. Leonard). 3 ? 



