No. 34-] HEMIPTERA OF CONNECTICUT I MIRIDAE. 555 



Hemelytra: Black, very slightly shining; thickly clothed with 

 fine dusky pubescence, hairs recumbent on apical half. 



Legs: Black; coxae red. Venter: uniformly red; genital 

 claspers black. 



Female: Length 6.6 mm., width 2 mm.; sHghtly larger and 

 more robust than the male but similar in coloration. Head: 

 Width 1.07mm., vertex .51mm. Antennae: Segment i, length 

 .61 mm. ; ii, 2.07 mm. ; iii, 1.54 mm. ; iv, .79 mm. 



Holotype: Male, 2 Aug., Ann Arbor, Mich. (R. F. Hussey) ; author's 

 collection. Allotype: 9 July, 1921, Minnehaha Creek, Hennepin County, 

 Minn. (H. H. Knight). Indiana— Male, 26 June, 1903, Crawford County; 

 female, 7 July, 1903, Posey County (W. S. Blatchley). Minnesota — Male, 

 15 July, 191 1, Chisago County. Male, 28 June, 1922, University Farm, St. 

 Paul (H. H. Knight). 



P. circumcinctus (Say). 



Compl. Writ., i, 343, 1859. 



Male: Length 7.1mm., width 2.7 mm.; head red, front and 

 tylus blackish, juga and lora more or less black; pronotum red, 

 calli blackish, a flaring black ray behind each callus and extending 

 to basal margin of disk; scutellum and mesoscutum red, basal 

 angles black; pleura red, sternum reddish but becoming blackish 

 each side of median line ; hemelytra black, embolium, outer margin 

 of corium and cuneus, red ; legs black, tinged with reddish near 

 bases of femora ; venter chiefly red, genital segment and more or 

 less at the sides, becoming black. 



Head: Width 1.28 mm., vertex .71 mm. Antennae: Segment i, 

 length .yy mm. ; ii, 2.34 mm. ; iii, 1.54 mm. ; iv, .95 mm. 



Female: Length 7.4 mm., width 2.7 mm. ; more robust than the 

 male but very similar in coloration. Head: Width 1.2mm., 

 vertex .62 mm. Antennae : Segment i, length .y6 mm. ; ii, 

 2.03 mm. ; iii, 1.34 mm. ; iv, .91 mm. 



New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts, Maine. 

 Platytylellus rubellicollis Knight, new species. 



Male: Length 7.5 mm., width 2.8 mm. Head : Width 1.27 mm., 

 vertex .68 mm. ; black, base of vertex and bucculae reddish. Ros- 

 trum, length 2.43 mm., black. 



Antennae: Segment i, length .83mm., thickness .17mm.; ii, 

 2.54mm., thickest (.12 mm.) near base and tapering to slightly 

 more slender at apex, thickly clothed with short black hairs which 

 in length do not equal thickness of segment; iii, 1.52mm.; iv, 

 .83 mm. ; black. 



Pronotum: Length 1.43mm., width at base 2.37mm., collar 

 1.14mm.; calH impressed on basal margin, disk strongly convex; 

 black, opaque, finely granulate, finely and closely pubescent ; collar, 

 lower half of propleura, narrow anterior margin of disk and 

 extending between calli, fulvous to pink. Scutellum black ; sternum 

 and pleura velvety black. 



