No. 34-] HEMIPTERA OF CONNECTICUT: MIRIDAE. 571 



black ; hemelytra rather uniformly fusco-brownish ; hind femora 

 banded with blackish before apices, anterior face more or less 

 blackish on apical half. 



This species was described by Reuter as a variety of rubecula 

 Uhler but proves on examination to be a distinct species. The 

 female type is now contained in the collection of E. P. VanDuzee. 



Food plant : Salix nigra. 



Allotype: Male, 27 June, 1916, Honeoye Falls, N. Y. (H. H. Knight) ; 

 author's collection. 



New York. 



L. mendax Reuter. Light apple red bug. (PL xvi, i6.) 



Acta Soc. Sci Fenn., xxxvi, No. 2, 47, 1909. 

 Cornell Univ. Agr. Expt. Sta., Bull. 291, 191 1. 



Length 6.4 mm., width 2.2 mm. ; bright orange-red ; tylus, 

 apically on rostrum, antennae, each side of median line on scutel- 

 lum, clavus, inner half of corium and cuneus, and membrane, dark 

 fuscous to black ; legs greenish to fuscous. 



Food plants : Crataegus, Pyrus coronaria, cultivated apple, and 

 to some extent on cultivated quince. This insect is now regarded 

 as a serious pest on apples in New York and Pennsylvania. 



Milford, 26 June, 1916 (W. E. B.) ; New Haven, 15, 22, 25 June, 1914 

 (B. H. W.) (M. P. Z.) ; Wallingford, July (D. J. C.) ; Washington, 24 

 June, 1914 (Mrs. G. H. Vaillant). 



Coccobaphes Uhler. 



C. sanguinareus Uhler. (PI. xvi, 17.) 

 Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist, xix, 401, 1878. 



Length 7.5 mm., width 3.4 mm. ; bright red ; dusky for a space 

 either side of the hemelytral commissure; membrane, first two 

 segments of antennae, tibiae, and apices of tarsi, black; segment 

 iii of antennae pale, segment iv fuscous. 



Food plants: Sugar maple {Acer saccharum) , and occasionally 

 red maple (A. ruhrum) ; breeds most abundantly on second growth 

 or young trees. 



Hamden, 18 June, 1919 (M. P. Z.) ; Hartford, 26 June (W. M.) ; 

 Litchfield, 20 June, 1908 (L. B. W.) ; New Haven, 12 June, 1902 

 (W. E. B.) ; 2Z June, 1905 (B. H. W.) ; South Meriden, 27 June, 1914 

 (H. L. J.). 



Capsus Fabricius. 



C. ater (Linnaeus). 



Cimex ater Linnaeus, Syst. Nat, Edn. 10, 447, 1758. 



Saunders, Het. Brit. Isds., 262, pi. 24, fig. 5, 1892. 



Reuter, Hem. Gynin. Eur., v, 14, 357, 1896. 



Length male 5.7 mm., width 2.6 mm.; female, length 5.8 mm., 

 width 3.1mm.; uniformly black, moderately shining; pronotum 

 shallowly, but rather coarsely punctate; clothed with pale to yel- 



