No. 34-] HEMIPTERA OF CONNECTICUT: MIRIDAE. 467 



brown to dusky, semitranslucent, clavus and apical half of corium 

 becoming infuscated, usually paler bordering radial vein, cuneus 

 dark brownish to fuscous at apex; clothed with pale yellowish 

 pubescence. Membrane infuscated, slightly paler on middle, 

 veins pale yellowish, a clear spot bordering apex of cuneus. 



Legs : Pale to yellowish, hind coxae fuscous at base ; femora 

 with two rows of black spots on anterior face, a black line forming 

 along dorsal margin, hind femora with a ventral line on apical 

 half ; knees, tibial spines and spot at base of each, black, apical 

 tarsal segment blackish. Venter black, moderately shining, finely 

 pale yellowish pubescent. 



Female: Length 3.7 mm., width 1.44 mm.; shorter and more 

 robust than the male; frequently more broadly pale, cuneus uni- 

 formly yellowish translucent, sides of venter broadly pale ; antennal 

 segment ii yellowish brown on apical half but fuscous before apex. 



Food plant: Alnus incana and probably other species of alder. 



Holotype : Male, 3 July, 1920, McLean Bogs, Tompkins County, N. Y. 

 (H. H. Knight); author's collection. Allotype: same data as the type. 

 Paratypes : Males and females (78), taken with the types on Alnus 

 incana. Massachusetts — Female, 8 Aug., 1912, Chester (C. W. Johnson). 

 Minnesota — ^Males (3), females (3), 30 June, 1922, Kings Bluff, Winona 

 County (H. H. Knight). New York — Males and females (26), 26 July, 

 1916, McLean; males and females (24), 8 July, 1920, Ithaca (H. H. 

 Knight). Male, 26 July, 1917, Cranberry Lake (C. J. Drake). Nova 

 Scotia — Male, 4 Aug., 1917, Truro (W. H. Brittain). 



P. strobicola Knight, new species. 



Fuscous black ; antennae, and legs except coxae, yellow ; clothed 

 with closely appressed, sericeous silvery pubescence. 



Male: Length 3.5 mm., width 1.33 mm. Head : Width .72 mm., 

 vertex .33 mm. (measured across posterior corners of eyes) ; 

 black, eyes reddish brown. Rostrum, length 1.25 mm., attaining 

 hind margins of posterior coxae, yellow, basal segment blackish. 



Antennae: Yellow; segment i, length .17 mm. ; ii, .97 mm. ; iii, 

 .62 mm. ; iv, .39 mm., sHghtly dusky. 



Pronotum: Length .53 mm., width at base 1.08 mm. 



Hemelytra: Embolar margins very slightly arcuate; uniformly 

 fuscous black; clothed with closely appressed, sericeous silvery 

 pubescence, and intermixed with more erect dark pubescence 

 similar to that of pronotum and scutellum. Membrane and veins 

 uniformly fuscous, not perceptibly paler bordering cuneus. 



Legs : Yellow, coxae blackish except at apex ; tibial spines black 

 but without dark spots at base. 



Female: Length 3.1mm., width 1.36 mm.; more robust than 

 the male but otherwise very similar. 



Breeds on Pinus strobus. 



Holotype: Male, 29 June, 1920, Ithaca, N. Y. (H. H. Knight) ; author's 

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

 females (24), taken with the types on Pinus strobus. New York — Males 

 and females (4), 8 July, females (2), 13 July, 1920, female, 26 July, 1916, 



