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



apical half; black, opaque, finely granulate, short pubescent. 

 Membrane black, scarcely paler bordering apex of cuneus. 



Legs : Black ; tibiae with three rows of short spines, pubescence 

 short. 



Venter : Black, opaque, clothed with rather short pale to dusky 

 pubescence ; first four ventral segments orange or reddish beneath ; 

 genital claspers distinctive. 



Female: Length 6.3 mm., width 2.7 mm.; shghtly more robust 

 than the male but very similar in coloration. Head: Width 

 1. 1 8 mm., vertex .6^^ mm. Antennae : Segment i, length .6y mm. ; 

 ii, 1.86 mm. ; iii, 1.33 mm.; iv, .97 mm. 



Holotype: Male, 13 July, 1920, Cranberry Lake, N. Y. (C. J. Drake); 

 author's collection. Allotype: 10 Aug., 1917, type locality (C. J. Drake). 

 Paratypes: Maine— Male, i Aug., 1910, Penobscot County (J. A. Cushman). 

 Michigan— Males and females (14), 6-31 July, 1919, Cheboygan County 

 (E. P. Butler). Minnesota— Males (2) and females (3), 10 July, 1920, 

 Morrison County (A. A. Nichol). Males (2), 25 Aug., 1920, Cross River, 

 Cook County (H. H. Knight). New York— Male, 5 July, 1920, female, 10 

 Aug., 1917, Cranberry Lake (C. J. Drake). Male, 3 July, 1904, McLean 

 (A. D. MacGillivray) . North Dakota — Male, 19 July, male, 2 Aug., male 

 and female, 4 Aug., 1920, Turtle Mts. (T. H. Hubbel). Vermont— Male, 

 12 July, 1891, Newport (A. P. Morse). Alberta— Male, 2 July, 1919, 

 Edmonton (F. S. Carr). Ontario — Males (2), 27 July, Parry Sound 

 (H. S. Parish) ; male, 8 Aug., 1915, Bondville (G. A. Moore). 



P. insignis (Say). 



Compl. Writ., i, 342, 1859. 



Male: Length 6.7 mm., width 2.6 mm.; black, opaque, very 

 finely granulate; head red, tylus and more or less on juga and 

 lora blackish; pronotum red, basal half of disk largely blackish 

 but central area of disk red, broadly invading the black but not 

 as a clearly defined vitta ; scutellum red, lateral margins blackish ; 

 venter black, with not more than a red tinge at base. 



Head: Width 1.19mm., vertex .67mm. Antennae: Segment 

 i, length .74 mm. ; ii, 2.2 mm, ; iii, 1.54 mm. ; iv, .97 mm. 



Female: Length 7.6 mm., width 2.8 mm.; larger and more 

 robust than the male but very similar in coloration. Head : Width 

 1. 2 1 mm., vertex .38 mm. Antennae: Segment i, length .77 mm. ; 

 ii, 2.28 mm.; iii, 1.45 mm.; iv, 1.03 mm. 



Cheshire, 8 July, 1904 (H. L. V.) ; Colebrook, 21 July, 1905 (H. L. V.) ; 

 Guilford, 13 July, 1920 (B. H. W.). 

 P. insignis var. fraterculus Knight, new variety. 



Male: Length 5.1mm., width 1.9mm. Head: Width i mm., 

 vertex .51mm.; red, tylus blackish. Rostrum, length 1.69 mm., 

 black, basal segment red. Antennae: Segment i, length .51 mm.; 

 ii, 1.9 mm. ; iii, 1.43 mm. ; iv, .80 mm. 



Pronotum : Length .90 mm., width at base 1.6 mm. ; bright red, 

 pronotal disk from just behind calli to basal margin black, with 

 very slight indication of median vitta. Scutellum black ; sternum 

 and pleura red. 



