Feb., 1919 Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society. 21 
THE MALE OF LYGUS UNIVITTATUS WITH THE DE- 
SCRIPTION OF A NEW LYGUS (HEMIP. 
MIRIDA).* 
By Harry H. Knicut, Ithaca, New York. 
Lygus (Neolygus) univittatus Knight. (Bull. Cornell Agr. 
Expt. Station, 1917, No. 391, p. 623.) When this species was 
described the males were not available for study thus the genital 
claspers could not be figured. In the summer of 1918 this inter- 
esting species was found by Mr. W. H. Wellhouse to be breeding 
on Crategus which grows abundantly in a pasture belonging to . 
the College of Agriculture at Ithaca, New York. The bugs were 
observed to feed on the hawthorn fruits as well as the tender 
foliage. It is apparent that the species is very scarce in western 
New York where the type female was taken, the writer always 
collecting extensively on Crategus taking Lygidea mendax, 
Heterocordylus malinus and Camptobrochis grandis frequently, 
but only the twe females of Lygus univittatus. 
The species is easily distinguished from the other members of 
the genus by the fuscous first antennal segment, scutellum with a 
median fuscous longitudinal vitta, and in having the apex of the 
cuneus reddish. Structurally the species is very close to com- 
munis, it being placed correctly in the original paper. 
Allotype: &, June 10, 1918, Ithaca, New York (W. H. Well- 
house) ; Cornell University Collection. 
Mr. Wellhouse also took: 9 May 23, g¢ May 29, J May 31, 
& June 10, 2 June 19, 2 June 27, all on Crategus. 
It is very probable that wnivittatus may some day be found 
breeding on apple, since the apple red bugs came over from 
Crategus and are now well established as pests on culivated 
apples. 
Lygus (Neolygus) parrotti, new species. 
Closely related to viburni but distinguished by the longer rostrum, fus- 
cous rays on the disk of the pronotum, segments I and II of antennze yel- 
lowish, clavus and apical half of the corium dark fuscous; resembles 
parshleyi but differs in the right genital clasper and in the entirely yel- 
lowish segments I and II of the antenne. 
* Contribution from the Department of Entomology of Cornell Uni- 
versity. 
