No. 34-] HEMIPTERA OF CONNECTICUT: MIRIDAE. 45 1 



Hemelytra : Embolar margins very slightly arcuate ; black, 

 moderately shining, clothed with pale yellowish pubescence ; cuneus 

 uniformly black, scarcely translucent at base. Membrane uni- 

 formly fuscous, veins and margin bordering tip of cuneus slightly 

 paler. 



Legs : Pale yellowish to fulvous ; coxae dull fuscous, paler at 

 apices ; hind femora with two rows of prominent black spots on 

 anterior face; tibial spines with rather small black spots at base, 

 becoming obsolete near apex. Venter black, moderately shining, 

 very finely pale pubescent. 



Female: Length 3.7 mm., width 1.7 mm.; sHghtly more robust 

 than the male but very similar in coloration. 



Holotype: Male, 23 June, 1920, Ithaca, N. Y. (H. H. Knight) ; author's 

 collection. Allotype : same data as the type. Paratypes : Males and 

 females (16), taken with types; collected on flowers of an ornamental 

 shrub. Pennsylvania — Male, 7 June, 191 9, North Bloomfield (T. L. 

 Guyton). 



*P. punctatipes var. dispar Knight, new variety. 



Smaller and more slender than punctatipes, very similar in 

 coloration but with cuneus narrowly pale at base. 



Male: Length 3.5 mm., width 1.28 mm. Head : Width .67 mm., 

 vertex .31mm.; black, vertex yellowish. Rostrum, length 

 1.24 mm., reaching to middle of hind coxae, yellow, basal segment 

 and apex blackish. 



Antennae : Segment i, length .22 mm., black, narrow apex pale ; 

 ii, .90mm., yellow, narrowly blackish at base; iii, .58mm.; iv, 

 .36 mm. ; last two segments yellowish. 



Pronotum: Length .53 mm., width at base 1.06 mm. ; black, 

 moderately shining, yellowish pubescent. Scutellum, sternum, 

 pleura, and ostiolar peritreme, black. 



Hemelytra : Black, base of cuneus yellowish translucent. Mem- 

 brane pale fuscous, central area and a spot bordering apex of 

 cuneus paler, veins yellowish to dusky. 



Legs : Pale to yellow, hind coxae except apex, fuscous ; hind 

 femora with twelve fuscous spots forming two rows on anterior 

 face, a group of five or six spots on posterior surface near apex ; 

 tibiae with very small fuscous spots at base of spines. Venter 

 black, moderately shining, finely pale yellowish pubescent. 



Female: Length 3.3 mm., width 1.39 mm. ; slightly more robust 

 than the male but very similar in coloration. 



Holotype: Male, 14 July, 1916, Batavia, N. Y. (H. H. Knight) ; author's 

 collection. Allotype: same data as the type. Paratypes: Males (2) and 

 females (6), taken with the types on hickory {Carya). Connecticut — Male, 

 8 July, 1912, New Haven, collected at light. Illinois — Male, 31 May, 1914, 

 Dixon (C. A. Hart). Michigan — Female, 3 July, 1920, Berrien County 

 (R. F. Hussey). New York — Female, 24 June, female, 5 July, 1914, male, 

 24 June, 1915, males (2), 31 July, 1916, Batavia; males (2) and females 

 (4), 16 July, 1916, Conesus Lake (H. H. Knight). 



