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Knight). Paratypes: Michigan — Male, 13 July, 1920, Berrien County 

 (R. F. Hussey). Minnesota — Males (4) and females (3), 18 July, 1922, 

 Ramsey County (H. H. Knight), on Sali.v longifolia. Ohio — Females (3), 

 9 June, 1915, Columbus (C. J. Drake). Female, 24 June, 1921, Columbus 

 (A. E. Miller). Pennsylvania — Female, 13 July, 1918, Williamsport 

 (J. G. Sanders). Vermont — Females (2), 8 July, 1908, Norwich (C. W. 

 Johnson). Nova Scotia — Female, 2 Aug., 1917, Truro (W. H. Brittain), 

 Quebec — Male and female, 19 July, 1914, Hull (J. I. Beaulne). 



*P. brevirostris Knight, new species. 



General aspect very similar to variety albocuneatus but larger, 

 more elongate, cuneus usually tinged with fulvous ; distinguished 

 by the short rostrum which does not attain hind margins of middle 

 coxae. 



Male: Length 4.6mm., width 1.8 mm. Head: Width .79 mm.,' 

 vertex .37 mm.; black, vertex pale. Rostrum, length 1.36 mm., 

 reaching upon middle of intermediate coxae, black. 



Antennae: Segment i, length .35 mm., black; ii, 1.43 mm., black, 

 cylindrical, more slender than segment i; iii, i mm., dark fuscous ; 

 iv, .54 mm., fuscous. 



Pronotum: Length .63 mm., width at base 1.26 mm.; black, 

 clothed with prominent pale yellowish pubescence. Scutellum 

 black, minutely transversely rugulose, yellowish pubescent. Ster- 

 num and pleura black; ostiolar peritreme black, posterior margin 

 somewhat yellowish. 



Hemelytra: Embolar margin slightly arcuate, widest near the 

 cuneus; black, moderately shining, embolium and basal half of 

 corium pale, dark color frequently invading apical half of 

 embolium, sometimes pale color extending along claval suture to 

 anal ridge; cuneus pale, usually tinged with fulvous, apex some- 

 times dusky or pale fuscous ; clothed with prominent yellowish 

 pubescence. Membrane uniformly fuscous, pale bordering apex 

 of cuneus ; veins pale or fulvous. 



Legs : Black, apices of coxae and femora, trochanters, and fre- 

 quently rather broadly at base of femora, pale ; tibiae pale, knees, 

 spines and spots at base, black. Venter black, moderately shining, 

 pale pubescent ; genital structures distinctive of the species. 



Female: Length 4 mm., width 1.89 mm.; shorter and more 

 robust than the male ; pale color along claval suture spreading to 

 involve outer margin of clavus ; legs more broadly pale. 



Holotype: Male, i July, 1920, Ithaca, N. Y. (H. H. Knight); author's 

 collection. Allotype : same data as the type. Paratypes : Connecticut — 

 Male, 22 July, 1920, Litchfield (P. Carman). Maine — males (2) and 

 females (2), 26 July, 1909, Machias (C. W. Johnson). Michigan — Male, 

 28 June, 1920, Washtenaw County (R. F. Hussey). New Hampshire — 

 Males (2) and female, 15 July, 1915, Glen House (C. W. Johnson). Ver- 

 mont — Female, 8 July, 1908 (C. W. Johnson). Newfoundland — Males 

 (4) and females (2), 9 Aug., Spruce Brook (G. P. Englehardt). 



*P. nigritus Knight, new species. 



Black ; distinguished by the short rostrum. 



Male: Length 4.4 mm., width 1.6 mm. Head: Width .51 mm.. 



