No. 34-] HEMIPTERA OF CONNECTICUT I MIRIDAE. 523 



Length 3 mm. ; pale, smaller than pellucida; distinguished by 

 the black head and fuscous basal segment of the antennae. 

 Food plant: Witchhazel (Hamamelis virginiana) . 

 Long Island, N. Y. 



Reuteria Puton. 



R. irrorata (Say). 



Compl. Writ, i, 346, 1859. 



Length 4.3 mm., width 1.5 mm.; pale whitish, usually marked 

 with marbled green spots ; distinguished by the longitudinal black 

 marks on antennae. 



Food plants: Basswood (Tilia), and white oak (Quercus) . 



New York. 



Noctuocoris Knight, new genus. 



Arolia erect and converging at the apices as in Orthotylus; gen- 

 eral aspect more nearly that of certain species of Phytocoris. 

 Head distinctly oblique in female but much less so in the male; 

 vertex ecarinate, beset with a row of erect bristles at base; an 

 alutaceous glabrous spot each side of vertex bordering eye ; 

 clypeus large and prominent, facial angle a right angle or slightly 

 greater; front only slightly convex. Eyes large, prominent, 

 viewed from the side a little oblique in female, larger and more 

 nearly vertical in male. Rostrum short, scarcely attaining hind 

 margin of mesosternum. Pronotum moderately sloping, very 

 little convex, sides nearly straight, forming a line which would, if 

 projected, strike inner half of eye; callosities moderately convex, 

 delimited behind by an impressed line which continues to an 

 impression between the calli. Pubescence composed of two kinds 

 of hairs, a closely appressed scale-like type, and interspersed with 

 more erect pubescent hairs. Legs long, suggesting Phytocoris but 

 femora not distinctly broader at base. Abdomen with a lateral 

 line formed by a series of impressed glabrous spots, one on each 

 segment (genital segments excepted) situated just below the 

 spiracle; both sexes with abdomen reaching to about middle of 

 cuneus. Genital claspers distinctive in type (fig. 96). 



Genotype : Orthotylus fumidus Van Duzee. 

 N. fumidus (Van Duzee). 



Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., ser. 4, vi, 127, 1916. 



Male: Length 5.7 mm., width 1.7 mm. ; color uniformly fuscous- 

 brown, slender apex of scutellum pale; clothed with sericeous, 

 closely appressed, silvery and black, scale-like pubescence, and 

 interspersed with more erect pubescent hairs, longer and more 

 bristly at anterior margin of pronotum and on head ; anterior face 

 of femora with a more or less broken fuscous line, dorsal margin 

 at base and frequently the posterior face with a series of dark 



