No. 34-] HEMIPTERA OF CONNECTICUT: MIRIDAE. 463 



4. Scutellum black; cuneus always with blackish, frequently pale at 



base but pale areas of legs and hemelytra never tinged with 



fulvous 5 



Scutellum more or less pale on lateral margins, rarely entirely 

 black ; if scutellum black then cuneus pale or dusky only at apex ; 

 cuneus pale, sometimes slightly infuscated at apex but pale areas 

 yellowish and tinged with fulvous (p. 466) alnicenatus n. sp. 



5. Rostrum attaining hind margins of posterior coxae: hemelytra 



uniformly black; femora black; apices pale; length 3.6mm. 



(p. 464) morrisoni n. sp. 

 Rostrum scarcely surpassing hind margins of middle coxae; base 

 of cuneus and usually tip of embolium and spot on base of corium, 

 pale ; length 4-4.6 mm (p. 465) parshleyi n. sp. 



(a) Femora pale, dark line forming on dorsal margin, anterior 



face with black spots and at times becoming dusky ; tip of 



embolium and spot on base of corium, pale 



variety parshleyi typical 



(b) Femora black, apices pale ; corium uniformly brownish black 



variety fuscatus n. var. 



6. Antennal segment ii in length distinctly greater than width of head 7 

 Antennal segment ii in length, just equal (female) to width of head, 



or (male) very slightly greater; femora fusco-brownish to 

 black, front and middle femora more yellowish, a black spot on 

 dorsal margin at apex, and with a second slightly larger subapical 

 spot bearing two prominent bristles (p. 468) waldeni n. sp. 



7. Antennae black, or at least segment i black 8 



Antennae pale, pubescence dusky; legs black, apices of femora and 



the tibiae pale, spines with small fuscous spots at base 



(p. 469) piceicola n. sp. 



8. Legs testaceous to brownish; femora sometimes nearly black but 



never paler at apices, always tinged w^ith brownish and reddish, 

 hind pair strongly incrassate; coxae and tibiae testaceous to 



brownish, more or less tinged with reddish (463) ancorifer 



Legs chiefly black ; femora more slender, black, apices of front and 

 middle pairs pale ; coxae deep black ; tibiae pale to testaceous, 

 black spots at base of spines (p. 464) drakei n. sp. 



P. ancorifer (Fieber). 



Reuter, Hem. Gymn. Eur., i, 104, pi. 7, fig. 7, 1878. 



Brownish black to black, moderately shining ; thickly clothed 

 with yellowish to golden, closely appressed, sericeous pubescence, 

 and intermixed with more erect blackish pubescent hairs ; legs 

 testaceous to brownish, femora frequently brownish black but 

 uniformly colored and never paler at apices ; tibiae testaceous to 

 brownish, scarcely darker at base of spines. 



Male: Length 4.2 mm., width 1.5 mm. Head: Width .84mm., 

 vertex .44mm. Antennae: Segment ii, length 1.05mm., black, 

 sometimes brownish apically, slender, scarcely thicker apically. 

 Pronotum: Length .81 mm., v/idth at base 1.38 mm. 



Female: Length 3.8 mm., width 1.7 mm. Head : Width .84 mm., 

 vertex .44 mm. Antennae : Segment ii, length i mm., black, 

 yellowish on apical half, slender, slightly thicker apically but 

 scarcely attaining thickness of segment i. Pronotum: Length 

 .yy mm., width at base i .4 mm. Hemelytra becoming brownish or 

 testaceous, frequently the cuneus distinctly reddish. 



