524 CONNECTICUT GEOL. AND NAT. HIST. SURVEY. [BuU. 



Spots; Sternum nearly black, ventral aspect of face and lower 

 margin of propleura pale grayish ; membrane uniformly fuscous, 

 veins slightly paler at apex of brachium ; genital claspers 

 distinctive of the species (fig. 96). 



Female: Length 6 mm., width 2 mm. ; very similar to the male 

 in coloration but in form slightly larger and more robust. 



In habit this species appears to be largely nocturnal; all speci- 

 mens thus far collected have been taken at light. 



Allotype: Male, 7 July, 1913, Batavia, N. Y. (H. H. Knight) ; author's 

 collection. 



New York, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Minnesota, South Dakota, Colorado. 



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Fig. 96. Noctuocoris fumidus Van Duzee, — male genital claspers, (b) 

 left clasper, dorsal aspect, (c) right clasper, lateral aspect. Greatly 

 enlarged. Drawing by Dr. H. H. Knight. 



Heterocordylus Fieber. 

 H. malinus Reuter. 



Acta Soc. Sci. Fenn., xxxvi. No. 2, 71, 1909. 



Length 5.7-6.1 mm., width 2.2 mm. ; black, usually marked with 

 red ; males black, usually with a patch of red on basal angles of 

 pronotum and on basal angles of hemelytra; clothed with very 

 fine yellowish pubescence and intermixed with rather sparsely 

 placed tufts of white, deciduous, tomentose pubescence. Females 

 usually with the basal half of pronotum, embolium, inner half of 

 corium, base and exterior margin of clavus, and cuneus, red ; more 

 rarely, entirely black as in the male. 



Food plants : Crataegus and apple ; pest on apple in New York. 



New Hampshire, New York. 



Tribe CERATOCAPSINI. 



Key to Genera. 



I. Pronotum anterior to middle, nearly cylindrical, rather abruptly 

 flaring behind middle, basal half of disk strongly convex ; 



embolar margins sulcate on basal half (p. 535) Pamillia 



Pronotum regularly narrowed anteriorly, its sides not constricted 

 at middle ; embolar margins not distinctly sulcate Ceratocapsus 



