No. 34-] HEMIPTERA OF CONNECTICUT: MIRIDAE. 



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Orthotylus basicornis Knight, new species. 



Male: Length 5.6 mm., width 1.66 mm. ; very similar to viridis 

 but distinguished by the genital claspers (fig. 83), black antennal 

 segment i, green veins about areoles, and by the more prominent, 

 rather coarse pale pubescence. 



Female: Length 5.7 mm., width 1.77 mm. ; uniformly green like 

 the male but slightly more robust; antennal segment i slightly 

 paler but still distinctly blackish. 



Breeds on Salix longifolia. 



Holotype: Male, 10 Aug., 1916, Batavia, N. Y. (H. H. Knight) ; author's 

 collection. Allotype : taken with the type. Paratypes : Female, topotypic. 

 Illinois — Female, 30 June, 1906, male, 15 July (at light), Chicago; female, 

 24 July, 1908 (W. J. Gerhard). Males (4) and female, 2 July, 1917, Free- 

 port (J. R. Malloch). Michigan — Male, 21 June, 1919, Berrien County 

 (R. F. Hussey). Minnesota — Males (14) and females (7), 12 July, 1919, 

 Hennepin County (H. H. Knight), on Salix longifolia. Males (2) and 

 females (2), 6 July, male, 10 July, University Farm, St. Paul (H. H. 

 Knight), collected at light. Males and females (72), 18 July, 1922, Ramsey 

 County; males and females (98), i July, 1922, Winona County (H. H. 

 Knight). Quebec— Female, 19 July, 1914, Hull (J. L. Beaulne). Male and 

 females (2), 28 July, 1915, Roberval (G. Beaulieu). 



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Fig. 83. Orthotylus basicornis 

 Knight, — male genital claspers, (a) 

 left clasper, lateral aspect, (c) 

 right clasper, lateral aspect. 

 Greatly enlarged. Drawing by Dr. 

 H. H. Knight. 



Fig. 84. Orthotylus neglectus 

 Knight, — male genital claspers, (a) 

 left clasper, lateral aspect, (c) 

 right clasper, lateral aspect. 

 Greatly enlarged. Drawing by Dr. 

 H. H. Knight. 



*0. neglectus Knight, new species. 



Male: Length 5.4 mm., width 1.75 mm.; color pattern very 

 similar to dor sails but the genital claspers (fig. 84) indicate that it 

 is more closely related to basicornis and knighti; black, rostrum 

 except apex, slender lateral margin of pronotal disk, cuneus, 

 embolium, and outer margin of corium, greenish; legs greenish, 

 darkened at base of coxae and tips of tarsi ; membrane and veins 

 uniformly blackish. Rarely, pale forms may occur having median 

 line of pronotum and scutellum pale. 



