534 CONNECTICUT GEOL. AND NAT. HIST. SURVEY. [Bull. 



1.42 mm., reaching to near hind margins of posterior coxae, 

 yellowish, apex blackish, basal segment reddish. 



Antennae: Segment i, length .41 mm., yellowish; ii, 1.43mm., 

 slender, only very slightly thickened apically, yellowish, fusco- 

 brownish on apical half ; iii, .88 mm., about equal in thickness to 

 segment ii, dark f usco-brownish ; iv, .51 mm., fuscous. 



Pronotum: Length .57 mm., width at base 1.14 mm.; rich 

 brown, becoming piceous on calli, punctures show black ; sparsely 

 clothed with long erect, yellowish pubescent hairs. Scutellum dark 

 brown, beset with about sixteen erect yellowish hairs, and between 

 with short, closely appressed, sericeous scale-like pubescence. 

 Sternum and pleura reddish to brownish black ; ostiolar peritreme 

 pale reddish. 



Hemelytra : Embolar margins nearly straight ; yellowish brown 

 translucent, punctures black; each puncture with a short, closely 

 appressed, silvery, sericeous pubescent hair, and interspersed 

 between with rows of sparsely set, erect yellowish hairs ; cuneus 

 red, more yellowish on outer margin, beset with rather long 

 yellowish pubescent hairs. Membrane and veins pale, apical half 

 and margins of veins pale fuscous. 



Legs : Yellowish brown, bases of coxae reddish, apices of tarsi 

 fuscous. Venter brownish black; right genital clasper with two 

 prongs, nearly forming a semicircle, the hook at base slender and 

 sharply bent, the terminal hook above more broadly curved. 



Holotype: Male, 1-7 Aug., 1917, Wanakena, N. Y. (C. J. Drake); 

 author's collection. Paratype : Male, 3 Aug., 1920, The Plains, N. Y. 

 (Osborn and Drake). Alberta — Male, 24 July, 1921, Nordegg (J. Mc- 

 Dunnough). 



Ceratocapsus nigrocephalus Knight, new species. 



Elongate, slender, black, legs and hemelytra yellowish, apical 

 half of corium and of cuneus pale fuscous ; sparsely clothed with 

 erect pilose hairs. 



Male: Length 4.5 mm., width 1.48 mm. Head : Width .73 mm., 

 vertex .31 mm.; black, median line of vertex slightly impressed, 

 somewhat alutaceous. Rostrum, length 1.36 mm., reaching to 

 middle of hind coxae, dark brownish. 



Antennae: Segment i, length .37mm., thickness .086mm., yel- 

 lowish, fuscous at base; ii, 1.53mm., linear, slightly thicker 

 apically (.07mm. thick), yellowish to dusky, darker apically; iii, 

 .88 mm., linear, thickness .06 mm., fuscous ; iv, .60 mm., thickness 

 .06 mm., fuscous. 



Pronotum: Length .57mm., width at base 1.12mm.; black, 

 shining, lateral margins of disk very slightly sulcate ; calli apparent 

 as slightly raised ovals, coarsely alutaceous ; sparsely clothed with 

 moderately long, erect pubescent hairs. Scutellum black, trans- 

 versely rugulose, sparsely beset with erect pilose hairs. Sternum 

 dark brownish to black, shining; pleura brownish to blackish; 



