No. 34. 



HEMIPTERA OF CONNECTICUT I MIRIDAE. 



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except median line and side margins, blackish; usually the paler 

 parts of the dorsum tinged with reddish (p. 519) ornatus 



Femora greenish, sometimes the scutellum broadly pale but in such 

 case the femora never dark 16 



Pronotal disk with blackish rays each side of median line and thus 

 connecting calli with basal margin 17 



Pronotal disk transversely pale behind calli, both the calli and basal 

 margin of disk blackish but never joined to form rays each side 

 of median line, dark color sometimes obsolete (p. 519) modestus 



Smaller, length 5.2 mm. ; veins paler than inf uscation of mem- 

 brane ; corium with inner apical half infuscated but the pale 

 color of basal half extending along claval suture and thus tending 

 to separate dark color of corium from that of clavus (p. 520) dorsalis 



Larger, length 5.8 mm. ; veins uniformly infuscated as the mem- 

 brane ; corium with inner apical half blackish, pale color of basal 

 half not penetrating along claval suture to separate black of 

 corium from tliat of clavus (p. 515) neglectus n. sp. 



cotu/us 



Fig. 79. Orthotylus catulus Van 

 Duzee, — male genital claspers, (a) 

 left clasper, lateral aspect, (c) right 

 clasper, lateral aspect. Greatly 

 enlarged. Drawing by Dr. H. H. 

 Knight. 



flai/osparsus 



Fig. 80. Orthotylus flavosparsus 

 Sahlberg, — male genital claspers, 

 (a) left clasper, lateral aspect, (c) 

 right clasper, lateral aspect. Greatly 

 enlarged. Drawing by Dr. H. H. 

 Knight. 



O. catulus Van Duzee. 



Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., ser. 4, vi, 106, 1916. 



Male: Length 4.2 mm., width 1.64 mm.; in form suggestive of 

 Megalocoleus but the arolia similar to species of Orthotylus ; uni- 

 formly whitish-testaceous or testaceo-grayish, head and calli tinged 

 with yellowish; hemelytra sometimes slightly infuscated, mem- 

 brane pale fumate; dorsum clothed with erect, moderately sparse 

 dusky pubescence; genital claspers distinctive of the species 



(fig- 79). 



Female: Length 4.1 mm., width 1.66 mm. ; very similar to the 

 male but in form more robust. 



Breeds on Gnaphalium uliginosum. 



Branford, 20 July, 1905 (H. W. W.) ; Mount Carmel (Hamden), 25 

 May, 1906 (B. H. W.). 



O. flavosparsus (Sahlberg). 



Phytocoris flavosparsus Sahlberg, Acta Soc. Sci. Fenn., i, 411, 1842. 

 Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., ser. 4, vi, 97, 1916. 



Male: Length 4.2mm., width 1.4mm.; oblong-ovate; clear 

 green, becoming yellowish on callosities, head and lower surface; 

 membrane slightly infumed, the areoles and veins green. 



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