43^ CONNECTICUT GEOL. AND NAT. HIST. SURVEY. [BuU. 



type. Maryland— Female, 7 June, 1914, Plummer's Island (W. L. 

 McAtee). North Carolina— Female, Hot Springs (A. T. Slosson). 

 Pennsylvania — Female, Greensburg (Wirtner). Male, 5 June, 1907, 

 Pennsylvania Station. 



P. albonotatus var. compar Knight, nevir variety. 



Apparently only a color form of albonotatus but more broadly 

 pale, thus requiring accommodation in a different section of the 

 key. 



Color pattern suggestive of albatus but smaller and more ovate 

 in form. Distinguished from typical albonotatus by the pale 

 scutellum which is dark only on median line ; pronotal disk broadly 

 pale on central area and betw^een calli. 



Holotype: Male, 10 Aug., 1916, Batavia, N. Y. (H. H. Knight) ; author's 

 collection. Paratypes : Nev^ York — Females (2), 12 July, female, 29 July, 

 1914, male, 26 July, 1915, Batavia; female, 27 July, 1916, McLean (H. H. 

 Knight). Maine — Female, 27 Aug., 1917, Paris (C. A. Frost). 



P. obscurus Uhler. 



Hayden's Surv. Terr, for 1871, 418, 1872. 



Female: Length 4.4 mm., w^idth 1.69 mm.; larger and more 

 elongate than albonotatus, moderately shining, clothed with pale 

 yellowish pubescence ; rostrum scarcely attaining hind margins of 

 posterior coxae, yellowish, basal segment blackish; antennae 

 fuscous to black, segment i pale at extreme apex, segments iii and 

 iv dusky; pronotum blackish, calli and central area of disk pale; 

 scutellum black, lateral margins more or less pale, and rarely, if 

 ever, does the pale color replace the black on apex of median line ; 

 sternum, pleura, and ostiolar peritreme black; hemelytra nearly 

 as in albonotatus, but cuneus pale and apex distinctly blackish; 

 legs pale to yellowish, base of hind coxae, apical half of femora 

 with line forming on dorsal margin, and beneath this line one or 

 two rows of spots, knees, and spots at base of spines, black or 

 blackish ; venter blackish, becoming more or less pale on the sides. 



Colorado, Maine, New Hampshire, New York, Vermont, Quebec, Nova 

 Scotia. 

 *P. obscurus var. albocuneatus Knight, new variety. 



Very similar to the typical obscurus but the cuneus uniformly 

 pale or yellowish; sometimes more broadly pale above but not 

 ordinarily. 



Holotype: Male, 26 July, 1916, Batavia, N. Y. (H. H. Knight) ; author's 

 collection. Paratypes : a large series from the type locality. Connecti- 

 cut — Male, 18 July, 1921, Cornwall (B. H. Walden). Male, 9 July, 1920, 

 Huntington; male, 22 July, 1920, Litchfield (P. Garman). Male, 27 June, 

 1914, females (2), 4 July, males (2), 5 July, 1920, New Haven (B. H. 

 Walden). Massachusetts — Male, 3 Aug., 1907, Mt. Greylock (C. W. 

 Johnson). Female, 4 Sept., 1919, Mt. Greylock (H. M. Parshley). New 

 Hampshire — Females (2), 24 July, 1915, Glenhouse (C. W. Johnson). 

 New York — Males (3) and females (4), 4 July, 1919, Cold Spring Harbor, 

 Long Island; female, 25 July, 1919. Babylon, Long Island (H. M. Parshley). 

 Vermont — Male, 15 June, 1908, Brattleboro (C. W. Johnson). 



