No. 34-] HEMIPTERA OF CONNECTICUT: MIRIDAE. 469 



P. piceicola Knight, new species. 



Brownish black, hemelytra more brownish, antennae and base of 

 cuneus pale. 



Male: Length 3 mm., width 1.08 mm. Head: Width .60 mm., 

 vertex at basal margin .34 mm., narrowest point on front .27 mm. ; 

 strongly inclined vertically, somewhat compressed; brownish 

 black, pale yellowish pubescent. Rostrum, length 1.18 mm., 

 extending behind posterior coxae, blackish, slightly paler on middle. 



Antennae : Segment i, length .20 mm., thickness .057 mm., pale ; 

 ii, .66 mm., equal to thickness of segment i, slightly more slender at 

 base, pale with a tinge of dusky, clothed with prominent pale to 

 dusky pubescence ; iii, .37 mm., dusky ; iv, .34 mm., dusky. 



Pronotum: Length .44 mm., width at base .91mm.; dark 

 brownish black, slightly shining, finely and closely yellowish pubes- 

 cent, scale-like sericeous pubescence more evident on hemelytra. 

 Scutellum and mesoscutum brownish black, yellowish pubescent. 

 Sternum and pleura brownish black, the latter clothed with some- 

 what flattened, sericeous pale pubescence; ostiolar peritreme 

 fuscous, anterior lobe bordering ostiole, pale. 



Hemelytra : Embolar margins only very slightly arcuate ; dark 

 fusco-brownish to blackish, base of cuneus pale translucent, apex 

 of embolium frequently pale ; clothed with golden to dusky pubes- 

 cence and intermixed with more closely appressed, silvery tomen- 

 tose pubescence. Membrane pale fuscous, paler on middle and 

 bordering apex of cuneus, veins somewhat pale or tinged with 

 reddish. 



Legs : Dark brownish black, apices of femora and the tibiae, 

 pale ; tibial spines brownish to blackish, a fuscous spot at base of 

 each, both spots and spines paler apically; tarsi pale to dusky, 

 fuscous at apex. Venter brownish black with a tinge of reddish, 

 somewhat shining, finely pale yellowish pubescent. 



Female: Length 2.86 mm., width 1.28 mm.; more robust than 

 the male but very similar in coloration, hemelytra usually more 

 brownish. Antennae : Segment i, length .22 mm., thickness 

 .058 mm.; ii, .60 mm., nearly attaining the thickness of segment i 

 but slightly more slender on basal half, clothed with prominent 

 dusky pubescence; iii, .47mm., slender; iv, .31mm.; uniformly 

 pale but with a dusky tinge, dusky pubescent. 



Breeds on spruce (Picea). 



Holotype : Male, 3 July, 1919, White Plains, N. Y. (J. R. T. Bueno) ; 

 author's collection. Allotype: Female, 11 July, 1922, University Farm, St. 

 Paul, Minn. (H. H. Knight). Paratypes. Minnesota — Males and females 

 (38), taken with the allotype on spruce (H. H. Knight). Females (7), 27 

 Aug., 1920, Vermillion Lake, Minn. (H. H. Knight). Males and females 

 (12), 12 Aug., 1922, Beaver Dam, Cook County (H. H. Knight). New 

 York — Female, 29 June, females (2), 3 July, 1919, males (2), 5 July, 1920, 

 White Plains (J. R. T. Bueno). Females (3), 28 July, 1920, Cold Spring 

 Harbor, Long Island (H. M. Parshley), collected on spruce (Picea). 



