No. 34-] HEMIPTERA OF CONNECTICUT: MIRIDAE. 547 



Collaria Provancher. 



C. meilleurii Provancher. 



Nat. Can., iv, 79, 1872; Pet. Faune Ent. Can., iii, 102, 1886. 



Length 6-7 mm., width 1.7 mm.; black, front of head shining; 

 legs yellowish brown, femora with small black spots ; hemelytra 

 yellowish translucent, clavus and irregularly on apical half of 

 corium, fuscous to black ; calli strongly convex, nearly as high as 

 the base of pronotum; posterior angles of pronotum with two 

 opaque black spots but scarcely noticeable on the black back- 

 ground ; antennae longer than the body. 



Occurs on Calamagrostis canadensis and other grasses in damp 

 situations. 



Colebrook, 21 July, 1905 (H. L. V.). 

 C. oculatus Reuter. 



Ofv. Kongl. Sv. Vet.-Akad., xxxii, No. 9, 61, 1876. 



Length 6-6.8 mm., width 1.7 mm. ; brownish with fuscous ; very 

 similar to meilleurii but the calli less convex and the opaque black 

 spots prominent on a brown background ; hemelytra chiefly brown. 



Occurs on grasses in dry sandy meadows. 



Cheshire, 8 July, 1904 (H. L. V.) ; New Haven, i June, 1904 (W. E. B.) ; 

 8 July, 1911 (B. H. W.). 



Miris Fabricius. 



M. dolabratus (Linnaeus). (PI. xvi, 23.) 



Cimex dolabratus Linnaeus, Syst Nat., Edn. 10, i, 449, 1758. 



Saunders, Het. Brit. Isds., 227, pl. 20, fig. 10, 1892. 



Length 7.3-8.5 mm., width 2.4 mm. ; pale greenish with fuscous 

 and black; brachypterous females common; pronotum with two 

 black stripes which run over the scutellum ; vestiture of fine long 

 erect pubescence; males frequently with hemelytra tawny brown. 



Food plants: Blae grass {Poa pratensis), timothy, and fre- 

 quently other grasses. 



Branford, 27 June, 1904 (H. L. V.) ; Brooksvale, 30 June, 1902 

 (W. E. B.) ; New Haven, 16, 24 June, 1902 (E. J. S. Moore) ; 8 June, 

 1904 (W. E. B.) ; 9 June, 1914 (Q. S. Lowry) ; i July, 1914 (M. P. Z.). 



Teratocoris Fieber. 



T. discolor Uhler. 



Ent. Amer., iii, 68, 1887. 



Length male 4.8 mm., width 1.2 mm.; female, length 6.2 mm., 

 width 1.6 mm. ; fuscous to black, with basal angles of pronotum, 

 base of hemelytra and full length of embolium, pale or greenish; 

 legs and antennae reddish; female with hemelytra and venter 

 much paler than in the male, only slightly fuscous along the claval 



