No. 34-] HEMIPTERA OF CONNECTICUT: MIRIDAE. 53I 



C. pumilus (Uhler). 



Ent. Amer., iii, 69, 1887. 



Length 3.6 mm., width 1.5 mm. ; yellowish brown to dark brown ; 

 antennae and legs pale yellowish brown ; dorsum distinctly punc- 

 tured, thickly clothed with prominent yellowish pubescence and 

 with shorter, silvery yellow, sericeous pubescence. 



Occurs on grapevine (Vitis spp.). 



East River 7 Sept., 1910 (C. R. E.). 



C. fuscinus Knight, new species. 



Closely related to pumilus but antennal segment iii shorter, eyes 

 of male larger, vertex narrower ; pubescence on dorsum heavier, 

 more erect and prominent than in pumilus. 



Male: Length 3.7mm., width 1.61 mm. Head: Width .78mm., 

 vertex .26 mm. ; yellowish ; eyes larger and more coarsely granu- 

 late (facets larger) than in pumilus. Rostrum, length 1.14mm., 

 scarcely attaining hind margins of middle coxae, yellowish, basal 

 segment and apex darker. 



Antennae : Segment i, length .27 mm., yellow, a red spot on 

 inner side at base; ii, i.oi mm., slender at base and becoming 

 gradually thicker toward apex, attaining the thickness (.08mm.) 

 of segment i, dusky pubescent, yellowish; iii, .51 mm., thickness 

 .07 mm., yellowish, becoming darker on apical half ; iv, .40 mm., 

 equal to segment iii in thickness, fusco-brownish. 



Pronotum: Length .68 mm., width at base 1.13 mm.; nearly as 

 in pumilus but pubescence longer and more prominent; brownish 

 black, basal one-fourth or more of disk yellowish. Scutellum 

 yellowish brown, darker at base, clothed with prominent yellowish 

 pubescent hairs ; mesoscutum narrowly exposed. Sternum brown- 

 ish, episterna and pleura blackish; ostiolar peritreme yellowish, 

 becoming brownish above. 



Hemelytra : Embolar margins slightly arcuate ; yellowish brown 

 translucent, somewhat fuscous on corium; punctures fine, black- 

 ish, clothed with prominent yellowish pubescent hairs and inter- 

 mixed with shorter, closely appressed, sericeous or scale-like 

 pubescence; cuneus reddish. Membrane pale fumate, a slightly 

 darker but distinct cloud occupying middle of apical half. 



Legs : Yellowish, hind femora reddish on apical half. Venter 

 brownish black, more yellowish beneath; genital claspers very 

 similar to those of pumilus but basal prong of right clasper twice 

 as long as wide; both right and left claspers composed of three 

 prongs each, hence the name. 



Female: Length 3.6 mm., width 1.6 mm. ; very similar to the 

 male but embolar margins more strongly arcuate ; pronotum more 

 yellowish, only the calli and a ray across top of coxal cleft blackish ; 

 venter reddish to brownish. 



Head : Width .73 mm., vertex .33 mm. Antennae : Segment i, 



