No. 34-] HEMIPTERA OF CONNECTICUT: MIRIDAE. 475 



Coquillettia Uhler. 



C. mimetica Osborn. 



Proc. Iowa Acad. Sci., v, 236, 1898. 



Male: Length 6.4 mm., width 1.77 mm.; ferrugino-testaceous, 

 abdomen, tarsi, and antennal segment ii, becoming fuscous ; basal 

 half of corium transparent, apical part bright ferrugino-testaceous 

 but slenderly margined with fuscous ; basal one-third of cuneus 

 white, slightly translucent, membrane and apical two-thirds of 

 cuneus blackish. 



Female: Length 5.5mm., wingless; ant-like in form, head 

 wider than pronotum ; abdomen with first two segments constricted 

 to form a pedicel, the remaining segments forming a globose, 

 polished, minutely and sparsely haired body with conspicuous 

 pleural fold ; color brown, antennal segments iii, iv, and apex of 

 ii, tarsi and apices of tibiae, fuscous to blackish ; globose portion of 

 abdomen and dorsum of second segment, dark chestnut or piceous. 



Occurs on elevated grassy ridges (Osborn). 



Iowa, North Carolina. 



Orectoderus Uhler. 



O. obliquus Uhler. 



Bull. U. S. Geol. Geog. Surv., i, 319, 1876. 



Male: Length 7.7 mm., width 1.8 mm. ; shining black, basal 

 half of cuneus, base of corium and extending to near middle of 

 hemelytra, pale or translucent ; legs reddish to piceous. 



Female: Length 5.8 mm., brachypterous ; ant-like in form, 

 head broader than pronotum ; hemelytra greatly reduced, extending 

 to base of abdomen, there turning upward, the tips tapering to a 

 point and vertical ; two basal segments of abdomen constricted 

 into a pedicel, the remaining segments forming a globose portion, 

 the pleural fold prominent from base to eighth segment inclusive ; 

 color piceous to black, antennae brownish to fuscous, segment iv 

 and tips of ii and iii, blackish. 



Granby, 21 May, 1920 (M. P. Z.), 

 O. obliquus var. ferrugineous Knight, new variety. 



Female: Similar in structure to the typical female of obliquus 

 but differs in color aspect ; ferrugino-testaceous, apex of antennal 

 segment ii piceous, globose portion of abdomen black. 



Mr. Olsen took these specimens in company with a reddish 

 colored ant (Camponotus castaneous) which this form resembles 

 very closely. 



Holotype: Female , 4-7 July, Bayshore, Long Island, N. Y. (Chris E. 

 Olsen); author's collection. Paratypes : Females (2), taken with the 

 types. 



