No. 34-] HEMIPTERA OF CONNECTICUT: MIRIDAE. 477 



D. agilis (Uhler). 



Bull. U. S. Geol. Geog. Surv., iii, 425, 1877. 



Male: Length 3.4 mm., width .9 mm.; female, length 4.5 mm., 

 width I.I mm.; pale yellowish, head, thorax, and segment ii of 

 antennae, chiefly black ; hemelytra pale, lightly marked with 

 fuscous, sometimes tinged with red. 



Food plant : Rubiis odoratus, and possibly others. 



Colebrook, 21 July, 1905 (H. L. V.) ; Guilford, July (B. H. W.) ; 

 Hamden, 25 June, 191 1 (B. H. W.) ; New Haven, 15 June, 1904 (W. E. B.), 

 I June, 1911 (B. H. W.) ; Poquonock, 27 June, 1905 (H. L. V.). 



D. famelicus (Uhler). 



Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist, xix, 413, 1878. 



Length 4.8 mm., width 1.2 mm. ; pale yellowish, head and thorax 

 dull reddish ; hemelytra and scutellum with dull reddish markings ; 

 membrane infuscated, brachium reddish near cuneus. 



Food plant: Rubus odoratus. 



Massachusetts, New York, New Hampshire, Vermont. 

 D. discrepans Knight, new species. 



Male: Length 8.3 mm., width .94 mm. Head : Width .55 mm., 

 vertex .22 mm., length .49 mm., from hind margin of eye to collar 

 .11 mm.; black, shining, pale on vertex, darkened along median 

 line. Rostrum, length 1.53 mm., attaining posterior margins of 

 hind coxae, pale, darkened at extreme tip. 



Antennae : Segment i, length .36 mm., pale, darkened at base 

 and apex ; ii, .97 mm., apical one-third black, pale at middle and 

 infuscated at base ; iii, .yy mm., dark fuscous, pale at base ; iv, 

 missing. 



Pronotum : Length along median line .44 mm., to line drawn 

 between basal angles .55 mm., width at base .yy mm., collar 

 .38 mm. ; calli confluent, transverse, convex, a transverse impres- 

 sion just behind which continues over the sides of disk; basal 

 margin of disk strongly sulcate, exposing mesonotum broadly, 

 basal angles rounded, lateral margins sulcate, coxal cleft visible 

 from above, collar flat, separated from calli by a transverse impres- 

 sion which connects at each side with coxal cleft; pale, pleura 

 blackish. Scutellum triangular, infuscated along median line, 

 pale at each side ; mesonotum broadly exposed, pale to reddish, a 

 rounded fuscous spot at middle which continues under pronotum, 

 also a smaller one at basal angles. Sternum black, shining, pleura 

 pale to brownish; ostiolar peritreme strongly convex, alutaceous, 

 pale, a horn-shaped reddish opaque tract curving dorsad from the 

 large and conspicuous ostiole. 



Hemelytra : Width .94 mm., pale translucent, disk of clavus and 

 corium lightly infuscated, a dark spot at apex of embolium, apex 

 of cuneus black. Membrane pale, lightly infumed at middle of 

 apical half, veins infuscated. 



Legs : uniformly pale yellowish, clothed with fine, short black 

 hairs. Venter black, shining, genital segment yellowish. 



