5IO CONNECTICUT GEOL. AND NAT. HIST. SURVEY. [Bull. 



scale-like type and interspersed with more erect pubescent hairs ; 

 vertex ecarinate but basal margin beset with bristly hairs, an 

 alutaceous glabrous spot each side bordering eye; general aspect 



very similar to certain species of Phytocoris 



(p. 523) Noctuocoris n. gen. 



Globiceps Le Peletier and Serville. 

 G. dispar (Boheman). 



CyUecoris dispar Boheman, Ofv. Kongl. Vet.-Akad., ix, 72, 1852. 



Reuter, Hem. Gymn. Eur., iii, 397, pi. 3, fig. i, 1883. 



Saunders, Hem. Het Brit. Isds., 281, 1892. 



Male: Length 4.3 mm., width 1.14 mm. ; black, vertex with pale 

 spot at each side; hemelytra fuscous but translucent, base of 

 corium, somewhat invading clavus, and cuneus except dusky apex, 

 pale translucent; membrane pale fuscous, veins slightly darker; 

 legs and basal half of antennal segment i, yellowish, tarsi and 

 hind tibiae dusky; calli distinctly convex or gibbus, margins of 

 pronotal disk sharply flaring at basal angles. 



Female (macropterous) : Length 4.3 mm., width 1.17 mm., 

 hemelytra extending well beyond apex of abdomen as in the male ; 

 head nearly globose, eyes scarcely raised from general outline of 

 front and vertex; colored similarly to male. Head: Width 

 .89mm., vertex .42mm. Antennae: Segment i, length .39mm., 

 yellowish, scarcely darker apically; ii, 1.57 mm., apical half 

 strongly clavate (.14mm. thick), black, basal half brownish black; 

 iii, .91 mm., yellowish, dusky apically; iv, .43 mm., fuscous. 



Female (brachypterous) : Length 3.2 mm., width of abdomen 

 1.5 mm. ; very similar to the macropterous form except hemelytra 

 and abdomen; hemelytra attaining base of third abdominal seg- 

 ment, fuscous, large spot near base and apex pale, tips turned 

 slightly upward ; abdomen subglobose, black, shining, pleural fold 

 prominent ; antennal segment ii pale on basal half, clavate portion 

 black. 



Reported from England as occurring at the bases of grasses in 

 moist situations. 



New Hampshire, Canada. 



Mecomma Fieber. 



M. gilvipes (Stal). 



Leptomerocoris gilvipes Stal, Stet. Ent. Zeit, xlx, 187, 1858. 



Reuter, Hem. Gymn. Eur., iii, 386, pi. 2, fig. 6, 1883. 



Male: Length 4.5 mm., width 1.4mm.; black; hemelytra much 

 longer than body, pale, fuscous on clavus and slightly darkened 

 elsewhere ; legs pale yellowish. 



Female: Length 2.7 mm., width of abdomen 1.5 mm.; black, 

 brachypterous ; segment i of antennae and base of iii pale, segment 

 ii slightly thicker toward apex, clothed with long pubescence ; legs 

 large in proportion to the body, pale yellowish; pronotum nearly 



