No. 34-] HEMIPTERA OF CONNECTICUT: MIRIDAE. 50I 



Tribe LABOPINI. 

 Labops Burmeister. 

 L. hirtus Knight. 



Can. Ent., liv, 258, 1922. 



Length 5 mm., (brachypterous) 4.3 mm., width 2.4 mm. ; easily 

 recognized by the pedunculate eyes, width of head great as width 

 of pronotum at base; black, narrow margin of hemelytra, marks 

 on head, and coxae, pale yellowish to ivory-white; bands about 

 middle and at apices of femora, tibiae excluding apices and knees, 

 yellowish ; clothed with coarse, long, erect pubescence. 



Maine, Massachusetts, New York. 



Tribe LOPIDINI. 



Key to Genera. 



i. Base of vertex without a ridge bearing bristles 2 



Vertex with a high transverse ridge at base, running from eye to 

 eye and bearing bristles ; pronotum and hemelytra with sparsely 

 set, erect black bristles (p. 501) Hadronema 



2. Genae very high, height greater than the depth of an eye ; without 

 an oblique suture dividing the genae beneath the eyes ; tylus 

 strongly protruding, its base well below the lowest margin of the 



eye (p. 501) Ilnacora 



Genae medium or high; with an oblique suture leading from base 

 of antenna to beneath the eye and thus dividing the gena; base 

 of tylus above a line drawn through the lowest margin of the 

 eyes (p. 502) Lopidea 



Hadronema Uhler. 



H. militaris Uhler. 



Hayden's Surv. Terr., Rept. for 1871, 412, 1872. 



Length 5-5.4 mm., width 2 mm. ; black, outer margin of the 

 hemelytra and cuneus, pale; basal margin, and sometimes basal 

 half of pronotum, reddish; clothed with sparsely set, erect black 

 bristles. 



Food plant: Baptisia tinctoria. 



Long Island, N. Y. 



Ilnacora Renter. 



I. malina (Uhler). 



Bull, U. S. Geol. Geog. Surv., iii, 419, 1877. 



Length 5.4 mm., width 1.6 mm. ; head, body, and antennae 

 mostly black; hemelytra and base of the pronotum bright green, 

 apex of the pronotum, two stripes on scutellum, and legs, greenish 

 yellow ; a round black spot behind each callosity ; membrane 

 blackish. 



Food plant: Solidago rugosa, growing in shaded damp places. 



Litchfield, 22 July, 1920 (P. G.) ; Wilton, 24 July, 1920 (M. P. Z.). 



