No. 34-] HEMIPTERA OF CONNECTICUT: MIRIDAE. 6oi 



P. proximus Knight, new species. 



Closely related to nigritus Fallen but distinguished by the uni- 

 formly dark tibiae ; length of antennal segment i equal to width of 

 vertex while in nigritus segment i is shorter. 



Male: Length 5.3 mm., width 2.7 mm. Head : Width 1.13 mm., 

 vertex .54 mm. ; black, a yellowish spot each side of vertex near 

 eye. Rostrum, length 1.8 mm., barely attaining hind margins of 

 middle coxae, black, segment ii brownish. 



Antennae: Segment i, length .60mm., thickness .114mm., black; 

 ii, 2.2 mm., cylindrical, thickness .086 mm., brownish black, deep 

 black at base, clothed with brownish pubescence ; iii, .85 mm., dark 

 brownish; iv, missing. 



Pronotum: Length i.i8mm., width at base 2.1 mm., posterior 

 half of disk strongly convex, transversely wrinkled, uniformly 

 deep black, slightly shining; clothed with yellowish to sericeous 

 pubescence. Scutellum deep black, slender apex yellowish, trans- 

 versely wrinkled. Sternum and pleura black, ostiolar peritreme 

 pale to yellowish, becoming darker above. 



Hemelytra : Embolar margins moderately arcuate ; black, anal 

 ridge, slender tip of embolium, and narrow base and apex of 

 cuneus, pale ; opaque, slightly shining, clothed with yellowish and 

 black pubescence intermixed. Membrane and veins uniformly 

 dark fuscous. 



Legs : Uniformly black, in paler forms the tibiae uniformly 

 brownish black but with no indication of annulations. Venter 

 uniformly black, clothed with pale to yellowish pubescence. 



Female: Length 5.3 mm., width 2.8 mm. ; embolar margins more 

 strongly arcuate than in the male, but general coloration similar. 

 Head: Width i.ii mm., vertex .57mm. Antennae: Segment i, 

 length .57 mm., thickness .lomm. ; ii, 1.7 mm., thickness .08 mm., 

 cylindrical, more slender than in the male. 



Holotype: Male, Greensburg, Pa. (Wirtner) ; Cornell Univ. collection. 

 Allotype: 18 May, 1905, Columbia, Mo. (C. R. Crosby). Paratype: Male, 

 12 June, 1922 Faribault, Minn. (H. H. Knight). 



P. unifasciatus Fabricius var. lateralis (Hahn). 



Phytocoris lateralis Hahn, Wanz. Ins., ii, 85, fig. 169, 1834. 

 Reuter, Hem. Gymn. Eur., v, 55, 361, 1896. 



Length male 5.6 mm., width 2.6 mm.; female, length 5.2 mm., 

 width 2.65 mm. ; clothed with golden, sericeous tomentose pubes- 

 cence, and intermixed with blackish pubescent hairs ; black, scutel- 

 lum apically, basal angle of corium, anal ridge and invading inner 

 angle of corium, apically on embolium and corium bordering 

 cuneus, base and apex of cuneus, tibiae, apical one-third of front 

 and middle femora, basal half and two subapical bands on hind 

 femora, pale to testaceous ; basal one-third of antennal segment ii, 

 but more broadly in the female, testaceous to brownish; cuneus 

 with inner half red, outer margin black except for pale at base and 



