464 CONNECTICUT GEOL. AND NAT. HIST. SURVEY. [Bull. 



Recorded on Alnus in Europe ; Mr. Bueno collected specimens 

 on apple at White Plains, N. Y. 



New Haven, 25 June, 191 1 (J. K. Lewis). 

 Psallus drakei Knight, new species. 



Black, strongly shining; clothed with closely appressed, seri- 

 ceous, deciduous silvery pubescence, and intermixed with more 

 erect blackish pubescent hairs. 



Male: Length 4.4mm., width 1.7mm. Head: Width .86mm., 

 vertex .39 mm. ; black, shining, clothed with sericeous silvery 

 pubescence. Rostrum, length 1.33 m.m., extending to near hind 

 margins of posterior coxae, black. 



Antennae: Segment i, length .25 mm., black; ii, 1.02 mm., black, 

 equaling thickness of segment i but more slender near base; iii, 

 .58 mm., black ; iv, .41 mm., blackish. 



Pronotum: Length .72 mm., width at base 1.5 mm.; black, 

 strongly shining, pleura as well as disk clothed with deciduous, 

 silvery sericeous pubescence. Scutellum, sternum, pleura, and 

 ostiolar peritreme, deep black. 



Hemelytra : Embolar margins very slightly arcuate ; uniformly 

 black, shining ; pubescence similar to that of pronotum. Mem- 

 brane and veins uniformly fuscous, a small clear spot bordering 

 apex of cuneus. 



Legs : Black, middle and anterior femora pale at apex ; tibiae 

 pale, knees and apices fuscous, black spines with dark spot at base 

 of each; apical tarsal segment fuscous. Venter black, strongly 

 shining, silvery deciduous pubescence present on sides. 



Female: Length 4 mm., width 1.89 mm.; very similar to male 

 but embolar margins more arcuate. Pronotum : Length .yy mm., 

 width at base 1.52mm. Antennae: Segment ii, length 1.05mm., 

 black, brownish at middle. 



Named in honor of the collector, Dr. C. J. Drake, to whom the 

 author is indebted for many valuable specimens. 



Holotype: Male, 6 July, 1917, Cranberry Lake, N. Y. (C. J. Drake); 

 author's collection. Allotype: taken with the type. Paratypes : Males (2), 

 2 July, type locality. Alberta — Male, 31 July, 1921, Nordegg (J. Mc- 

 Dunnough). 

 P. morrisoni Knight, new species. 



Black, elongate, suggestive of a Plagiognathus but distinguished 

 by closely appressed, scale-like silvery pubescence; antennal seg- 

 ment ii of male distinctly longer than width of pronotum at base. 



Male: Length 3.6 mm., width 1.25 mm. Head : Width .69 mm., 

 vertex .33 mm., black, scarcely paler on vertex. Rostrum, length 

 1.38 mm., attaining hind margins of posterior coxae, black, seg- 

 ment iii and apex of ii yellowish. 



Antennae: Segment i, length .28mm., black; ii, 1.03mm., 

 black, brownish on middle or slightly beyond, slender, not attaining 

 thickness of segment i ; iii, .yy mm., testaceous to dusky ; iv, 

 .49 mm., pale fuscous. 



