No. 34-] HEMIPTERA OF CONNECTICUT: MIRIDAE. 465 



Pronotum : Length .55 mm., width at base 1.03 mm.; black, 

 pleura and disk clothed with closely appressed, scale-like silvery 

 pubescence. Scutellum, sternum, pleura, and ostiolar peritreme, 

 black. 



Hemelytra: Embolar margins nearly straight; uniformly black, 

 or ligneous black, slightly translucent; pubescence similar to that 

 of pronotum and scutellum but rather finer. Membrane uniformly 

 fuscous, veins and bordering apex of cuneus slightly paler. 



Legs : Black, tips of femora slenderly pale ; tibiae pale, knees 

 and spots at base of spines blackish. Venter black, shining, scale- 

 like silvery pubescence extending along sides. 



Female: Length 3.2 mm., width 1.2 mm.; more ovate than the 

 male but very similar in coloration. Antennae : Segment ii, length 

 .94mm., testaceous, black on basal one-fourth. Pronotum: 

 Length .49 mm., width at base i.oi mm. 



Named in honor of the collector, Mr. Harold Morrison, 



Holotype : Male, 27 July, 1921, Arnold Arboretum, Boston, Mass. 

 (Harold Morrison); U. S. N. M. collection. Allotype: taken with type. 

 Paratypes : Males and females (19), collected with types by sweeping 

 Myrica spp. Massachusetts — Males (2), 21 Oct., 1915, Hyde Park 

 (H. M. Parshley), on Solidago. 



P. parshley i Knight, new species. 



Color aspect suggestive of Plagiognathus fraternus Uhler, but 

 distinguished by the sericeous, semiscale-like pubescence on pleura 

 and dorsum. 



Male: Length 4.5 mm., width 1.7 mm. Head: Width .80 mm., 

 vertex .34 mm. ; black, vertex somewhat yellowish ; pale pubescent, 

 hairs on front slightly thickened. Rostrum, length 1.43 mm., 

 scarcely surpassing hind margins of middle coxae, blackish, some- 

 what brownish on middle. 



Antennae: Segment i, length .32mm., black; ii, 1.26mm., 

 slightly thicker toward apex but not attaining thickness of se);3rnient 

 i, black, pale pubescent; iii, .88mm., fuscous; iv, .48mm., 

 fuscous. 



Pronotum: Length .66mm., width at base 1.37mm.; black, 

 moderately shining, clothed chiefly with pale, closely appressed, 

 semiscale-like pubescence. Scutellum black, transversely rugulose, 

 clothed with pale semiscale-like pubescence. Sternum, pleura, and 

 ostiolar peritreme, black, pleura bearing pale semiscale-like 

 pubescence. 



Hemelytra : Elongate, embolar margins very slightly arcuate ; 

 pale yellowish pubescent, and intermixed with closely appressed, 

 semiscale-like hairs on corium and clavus ; black, basal half of 

 cuneus, tip of embolium, and a small translucent spot near base of 

 corium, pale. Membrane uniformly fuscous, a pale spot bordering 

 apex of cuneus, veins dusky but slightly paler at apex of cells. 



Legs : Pale yellowish, coxae fuscous at base ; femora with dark 



