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Phytocoris fumatus Reuter. Bemerk. Neark. Caps., p. 25, 1909. 

 Figure of male claspers and flagellum (pi. i, fig. 8). 



Plesiotype: ^ June 26, Deep Pond, Wading River, L. Is., New- 

 York (Wm. T. Davis) ; compared with type; author's collection. 



The writer has studied the types of fumatus and subnitidulus 

 that were returned by Reuter to the U. S. National Museum and 

 is unable to see more than a shade of color difference between 

 them. It is possible that the other type specimen of subnitidulus 

 which Reuter retained, may represent something different from 

 fumatus^ but on the other hand, a study of the original descrip- 

 tion does not reveal any differences greater than may be found in 

 the sexes of the latter species. 



Phytocoris corticevivens new species. 



J*. Length 6.6 mm., width 2.3 mm. Very similar to fu- 

 matus, differs in having the lower half of head black except 

 for a small pale spot at base of lorae; femora black, narrowly 

 pale at base, a few small pale freckles near apices, the hind 

 pair with a distinct white oblique band just before the apex, 

 broader and more distinct at the front and under side ; genital 

 claspers, flagellum, and tubercle above base of each clasper, 

 distinctive of the species (pi. i, fig. 6). 



5. Very similar to the male but slightly more robust, fre- 

 quently lighter colored. 



Holotype: ^ July 11, Batavia, New York (H. H. Knight); 

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

 S June 8, ^ June 25, ^ July 13, $ July 14, Batavia; $ June 21, 

 Portage, N. Y. (H. H. Knight). <$ July 7, Waterville, N. Y. 

 (I. M. Hawley). ? July 11, Staten Island, N. Y. ; 5 June 30, 

 White Plains, N. Y. (Torre-Bueno). ? July 3, Palisades, N. J. 

 (Wm. T. Davis). ^ July 2, Great Falls, Md. (O. Heidemann). 

 ($ June 20, New Haven, Ct. (A. B. Chaplain). $ July 4, Lyme, 

 Ct. (H. B. Kirk). 5 July, Orono, Me. ^ June 2, Ramsey Co., 

 Minn.; J"? "Minn.". ^ July i, Kingsmere, P. Q., Can. (R. N. 

 Crystal). ^ Henningford, P. Q. ; ? July 3, Covey Hill, P. Q. 

 (C. E. Fetch). 



The writer took this species only on the bark of maple trees 

 {Acer saccharum) where the nymphs and adults are well con- 

 cealed as they crouch in crevices of the bark awaiting their prey. 



