No. 34-] HEMIPTERA OF CONNECTICUT: MIRIDAE. 



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Female: Length 5mm., width 2.1 mm.; the dark colors much 

 reduced, otherwise similar to the male in coloration. 



Food plant unknown. 



Maine, New Hampshire. 

 *L. (Neolygus) inconspicuus Knight. 



Cornell Univ. Agr. Expt. Sta., Bull. 391, 612, 1917. 



Male: Length 4.5 mm., width 2.08 mm. ; pale greenish, a trans- 

 verse spot of brownish at apex of corium and dark brownish on 

 clavus bordering scutellum ; in general appearance resembling most 

 the female of tiliae and both sexes of clavigenitalis , but differing 

 greatly from those species in form of genital claspers (fig. 115). 



Female: Length 4.8 mm., width 2.25 mm.; very similar to the 

 male in size and coloration ; similar in size and general appearance 

 to females of clavigenitalis and tiliae; distinguished from tiliae by 

 the pale scutellum, and from clavigenitalis by the more greenish 

 color and paler scutellum. 



Breeds on Vitis rotundifolia. 



New Haven, 23 June (B. H. W.). 

 *L. (Neolygus) tiliae Knight. 



Cornell Univ. Agr Expt. Sta., Bull. 391, 613, 1917. 



Male: Length 4.6 mm., width 1.74 mm.; rather small, scarcely 

 as large as invitus; greenish yellow with the base of pronotum 

 darker, the scutellum, clavus, and corium dark fuscous to blackish ; 

 genital claspers distinctive (fig. 116). 



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mcon5picuu5 



Fig. 115, Lygus inconspicuus 

 Knight, — male genital claspers, 



(a) left clasper, lateral aspect, 



(b) left clasper, dorsal aspect, (c) 

 right clasper, ventral aspect. 

 Greatly enlarged. Drawing by Dr. 

 H. H. Knight. 



tiliae 



Fig. 116. Lygus tiliae Knight, — 

 male genital claspers, (a) left 

 clasper, lateral aspect, (b) left 

 clasper, dorsal aspect, (c) right 

 clasper, ventral aspect. Greatly 

 enlarged. Drawing by Dr. H. H. 

 Knight 



Female: Length 5 mm., width 2 mm. ; lighter colored than the 

 male and usually slightly larger; pronotum yellowish, scutellum 

 and clavus only slightly darkened, apex of corium with a triangular 

 dark patch, much resembling helfragii in this respect; similar in 



