No. 34-] HEMIPTERA OF CONNECTICUT I MIRIDAE. 543 



P. laetus Van Duzee. 



Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., ser. 4, viii, 294, 1918. 



Male: Length 3.7 mm., width 1.27 mm.; coloration similar to 

 that of amoenus; posterior silvery line interrupted on corium. 

 Antennae: Segment i, length .28mm., brownish; ii, 1.39mm., 

 slender, pale, abruptly clavate (.13 mm. thick) and black on apical 

 one-third; iii, .53mm., pale, dusky at apex; iv, .55mm., dusky. 



Female: Length 3.7 mm., width 1.33 mm.; very similar to the 

 male in structure and coloration, but clavate portion of antennal 

 segment ii very sHghtly thicker (.15 mm. thick). 



Breeds on Pinus virginiana. 



Allotype: Male, 10 Aug., Washington, D. C. (O. Heidemann) ; author's 

 collection. 



Pilophorus juniperi Knight, new species. 



Very similar to laetus but darker in coloration; differs in the 

 shorter and more gradually thickened antennal segment ii, and by 

 the narrower head. 



Male: Length 3.7mm., width 1.3mm. Head: Width .91 mm., 

 vertex .49 mm. ; dark brownish black, more brownish below. 

 Rostrum, length 1.06 mm., attaining middle of intermediate coxae, 

 brownish black. 



Antennae: Segment i, length .28mm., brownish; ii, i.ii mm., 

 gradually thickened from middle toward apex (.10 mm. thick), 

 in length not equal to distance between tip of tylus and base of 

 pronotum, brown, apical half black; iii, .44mm., pale, infuscated 

 apically; iv, .42 mm., infuscated. 



Pronotum: Length .71mm., width at base i.iimm. ; dark 

 brownish black, sides more gradually sulcate than in laetus. 

 Scutellum nearly as in laetus but not so strongly convex on disk. 



Hemelytra : Nearly as in laetus but darker in color. Membrane 

 blackish on basal half, pale fuscous on apical half and bordering 

 cuneus. 



Legs : Dark fusco-brownish, distinctly darker than in laetus. 



Venter: Dark brownish black, each side with a patch of silvery 

 hairs on segments 3-5 inclusive. 



Female: Very similar to the male in structure and coloration. 



Breeds on Juniperus virginiana. 



Holotype: Male, 18 July, 1915, White Plains, N. Y. (J. R. T. Bueno) ; 

 author's collection. Allotype : same data as the type. Paratypes : Mary- 

 land — Female, June, 1913, Forest Glen ; male, 30 June, 1905, Plummers 

 Island (O. Heidemann). Massachusetts — Male, 15 July-6 Aug., 1918, 

 Woods Hole (C. E. Olsen). Minnesota — Males and females (17) 20 

 July, 1920, Gray Cloud Island, Ramsey County (H. H. Knight), collected 

 on Juniperus virginiana. New Jersey — Female, 25 July, 191 1, Bear Swamp, 

 Ramapo Mts. (Wm. T. Davis). New York — Males (2), 18 July, male, 24 

 July, male and female, 27 July, White Plains (J. R. T. Bueno), collected 

 on Juniperus virginiana. 



