No. 34-] HEMIPTERA OF CONNECTICUT: MIRIDAE. 559 



cuneus, embolium, and lateral margins of corium, red like the 

 lateral margins of pronotal disk. 



Holotype: Male, i July, 1919, Berrien County, Mich. (Hubbel and 

 Hussey) ; author's collection. Paratypes : New Hampshire — Male, 12 

 Aug., 1922, Contoocook. New York — Male, 24 June, 1917, Fort Mont- 

 gomery (F, M. Schott). Pennsylvania — Male, 20 Aug., 1909, Greely, 

 Pike County, alt. 2300 ft. (Finer Olsen). 



P. fraternus var. regalis Knight, new variety. 



Male: Length ^.y mm., width 3.4 mm. Head : Width 1.57 mm., 

 vertex .86 mm. ; red, eyes black. Rostrum, length 2.9 mm., nearly 

 attaining hind margins of posterior coxae, brownish black. 



Antennae : Segment i, length .83 mm., clothed with erect pilose 

 hairs, length of certain hairs equal to thickness of segment; ii 

 3.09 mm., pubescent, a few hairs near base equal to thickness of 

 segment; iii, 1.69mm.; iv, 1.23mm. 



Pronotum: Length 1.71mm., width at base 2.6 mm., collar 

 1.28 mm.; uniformly bright red, pale pubescent, surface very 

 finely granulate. Scutellum bright red like the pronotal disk; 

 sternum and pleura bright red. 



Hemelytra : Surface finely rugulose granulate, opaque ; black, 

 embolium, outer half of cuneus, and outer margin of corium, pale 

 to bright red. 



Legs : Brownish black, coxae red ; tibiae thickly clothed with 

 long pilose hairs, spines not evident. 



Venter : Bright red, pale pubescent ; genital segment with prom- 

 inent tubercle at base of left clasper, and a smaller one at base of 

 right clasper. Slight differences may be noted between this form 

 and the typical fraternus but until more material is studied, and 

 better structural characters are found, it is perhaps better to use a 

 varietal name. 



Female: Length 9.5 mm., width 3.6 mm. ; more robust than the 

 male but very similar in coloration. 



Holotype. Male, 5 May, 1918, Gainesville, Fla. (C. J. Drake) ; author's 

 collection. Allotype : 30 May, 1918, type locality (C. J. Drake) . Paratypes : 

 District of Columbia. — Female, 4 May, 1884, Washington (O. Heidemann). 

 Florida — Female, 5 May, 1918, female, 7 July, 1918, Gainesville (C. J. 

 Drake). New Jersey — Female, 27 June, 1908, Malaga (Wm. T. Davis). 

 Virginia — Female, 21 June, 1914, Nelson County (W. Robinson). Female 

 and nymph, 19 June, 1906, "Va." (D. H. demons). North Carolina — 

 Male, 19 May, Male, 24 May, 1919, Southern Pines (A. H. Manee). 



P. fraternus var. discif er Knight, new variety. 



Similar to regalis but the pronotal disk, except lateral margins 

 and calli, black ; between calli, and the dorsal area of collar, some- 

 times black, calli always red. 



Holotype: Female, 6 May, 1912, Lakeland, Fla. (Wm. T. Davis); 

 author's collection. Paratypes: Florida — Females (2), 5 May, 1918, 

 Gainesville (C. J. Drake). Maryland — Female, 26 June, 1882, Blandens- 

 burg (O. Heidemann). Female, 26 June, 1911, Cabin John Bridge (Wm. T. 

 Davis). 



