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



Female: Length 4.8 mm., width 1.77 mm.; very similar to the 

 male but slightly more robust; antennal segment ii, length 

 2.15 mm., greatest thickness .166 mm., segment iii pale, apical half 

 infuscated. 



Breeds on Larix laricina and Pinus syhestris. 



Holotype: Male, 30 June, 1920, Ithaca, N. Y. (H. H. Knight) ; author's 

 collection. Allotype : same data as the type. Paratypes : New York — 

 Males and females (12), 14 July, 1916, Batavia; female, 27 June, males 

 (2) and females (2), 30 June, males (2), 2 July, male and females (2), 

 5 July, males (2) and females (2), 8 July, Ithaca (H. H. Knight). Male, 

 4 July, 1919, White Plains (J. R. T. Bueno). Ontario — Female, 15 July, 

 1914, Ottawa (G. BeauHeu). 



P. crassipes Poppius. 



Ann Soc. Ent. Belg., Iviii, 242, 1914. 



Male: Length 5.1 mm. Head: Width 1.06 mm., vertex .50mm. 

 Antennae: Segment i, length .39mm.; ii, 1.94mm., gradually 

 thickened apically (.13mm. thick), dark fusco-brownish, apical 

 half black ; iii, .66 mm., pale, infuscated at apex ; iv, .61 mm., pale 

 fuscous. 



Front of head and the pronotum clothed with fine silvery pubes- 

 cence while that on the hemelytra is more nearly golden ; scutellum 

 clothed with silvery, scale-like pubescence, more thickly on basal 

 angles and apex ; hemelytra polished behind posterior silvery line 

 but rather thickly clothed with recumbent golden pubescence; 

 posterior tibiae distinctly compressed ; venter with an oblique patch 

 of silvery, scale-like pubescence on sides of segments 3-6 inclusive. 



Female: Length 5 mm., width i.6imm. ; antennal segment ii, 

 length 2.19 mm., greatest thickness .166 mm., more distinctly 

 thickened on apical one-third than in the male. 



Breeds on Pinus strobus. 



New Hampshire, New York. 

 P. amoenus Uhler. 



Ent. Amer., iii, 30, 1887. 



Male: Length 5 mm., width 1.64 mm.; hemelytra anterior to 

 posterior silvery line, cinnamon fulvous in color, distad of this, 

 polished and piceous ; posterior silvery line nearly straight, not 

 interrupted on corium ; hind tibiae distinctly compressed. 



Antennae: Segment i, length .39mm., fuscous; ii, 1.83mm., 

 greatest thickness .12 mm., gradually thickened from base toward 

 apex, black, fusco-brownish on basal half ; iii, .y2 mm., slender, 

 pale ; iv, .64 mm., pale, dusky on apical half. 



Female: Length 4.8 mm., width 1.7 mm.; very similar to the 

 male in structure and coloration. Antennae : Segment i, .39 mm. ; 

 ii, 1.72 mm., greatest thickness .14 mm., slightly thicker on apical 

 half than in the male ; iii, .^2 mm., pale ; iv, .64 mm., pale, dusky 

 apically. 



Breeds on Pinus virginiana. 



Massachusetts, Long Island, N. Y. 



