No. 34-] HEMIPTERA OF CONNECTICUT: MIRIDAE. 529 



Female: Length 4.6 mm., width 1.84 mm.; very similar to the 

 male in form and color. 



Holotype: Male, 14 July, 1916, Batavia, N. Y. (H. H. Knight) ; author's 

 collection. Allotype : same data as the type. Paratypes : Males and 

 females (30), taken with the types on hickory. Georgia — Male and female, 

 July, 1910, Rabun County (Wm. T. Davis). Maryland — Male, 21 June, 



1914, Plum Point (W. L. McAtee). Minnesota — Female, 20 July, 1920, 

 Gray Cloud Island (H. H. Knight). North Carolina — Female, 14 June, 



1915, Southern Pines (A. H. Manee). Males and females (8), July, 1912, 

 Black Mountains (Beutenmuller). New Jersey — Female, 2 July, James- 

 burg (Wm. T. Davis). New York — Males and females (7), 17 July, males 

 and females (12), 31 July, female, 6 Aug., 1916, females (2), 13 Aug., 1915, 

 Batavia (H. H. Knight), collected on hickory. Males and females (5), 

 16 July, 1916, Conesus Lake; males and females (6), 23 July, 1916, Ithaca 

 (H. H. Knight). Female, 7 Aug., 1915, White Plains (J. R. T. Bueno). 

 Males (4) females (3), 30 June, 1922, Kings Bluff, Winona Co., Minn. 

 (H. H. Knight). 



Collected most frequently on hickory (Carya sp.). Nymphs 

 have been taken on the trunks and larger limbs of trees, indicating 

 that the species may be largely predaceous. 

 C. vicinus Knight, new species. 



Fulvous to reddish, scutellum and apical half of hemelytra dark 

 brownish to blackish, legs and antennae yellowish; dorsum 

 clothed with rather inconspicuous simple pubescence, scutellum and 

 basal half of hemelytra thickly clothed with closely appressed, 

 scale-like silvery pubescence. 



Male: Length 3.4mm., width 1.4mm. Head: Width .78mm., 

 vertex .31 mm. ; yellowish to reddish, front coarsely alutaceous, 

 vertex and front beset with a few erect yellowish hairs. Rostrum, 

 length 1.43 mm., reaching upon hind coxae, reddish, yellowish 

 apically. 



Antennae: Segment i, length .31 mm., yellowish, frequently a 

 red mark on ventral surface; ii, 1.23mm., thickness at apex 

 .10 mm., yellowish, more brownish at apex; iii, .66mm., thickness 

 .08 mm., reddish brovvm, paler at base ; iv, .48 mm., reddish brown. 



Pronotum: Length .71mm., width at base 1.23 mm.; lateral 

 margins of disk nearly straight; fulvous to reddish, moderately 

 shining ; calli outlined but inconspicuous, alutaceous ; sparsely 

 clothed with fine yellowish pubescence. Scutellum dark reddish 

 brown, transversely rugulose, thickly clothed with closely 

 appressed, silvery scale-like pubescence. Sternum and pleura red- 

 dish to brownish, meta-episterna pruinose; ostiolar peritreme 

 reddish. 



Hemelytra : Embolar margins slightly sinuate ; yellowish to 

 fulvous, apical half dark brownish to blackish; sparsely clothed 

 with simple yellowish pubescence, clavus and basal half of corium 

 covered with closely appressed, silvery scale-like pubescence. 

 Membrane pale, apical half fuscous. 



Legs : Uniformly yellowish, scarcely darker at base of coxae. 

 Venter dark reddish brown to black, shining, genital segment 



