No. 34.] HEMIPTERA OF CONNECTICUT : MIRIDAE. 605 



slightly arcuate; black, moderately shining; thickly clothed with 

 sericeous, pale pubescence, a few black hairs on embolium and 

 cuneus ; cuneus fulvous or reddish. 



Head: Width 1.04mm., vertex .46mm. Rostrum, length 

 1.09 mm., just attaining middle of sternum, piceous, scarcely paler 

 at joints. Antennae : Segment ii, length 2.31 mm., cylindrical, 

 not equal to thickness of segment i. 



Legs: Black, basal half of hind and middle femora, anterior 

 face of front femora except apically, and two basal segments of 

 tarsi, yellow. 



Female: Length 5 mm., width 2.57 mm. ; embolar margins 

 strongly arcuate; shorter, more ovate and robust than the male; 

 coloration similar to the male except the coxae; coxae always 

 yellowish except for spot at base. 



Uhler's description of the legs was undoubtedly drawn from a 

 female specimen since the leg colors are distinctive of the sex in 

 this species. A specimen in the U. S. N. M. collection has been 

 labeled type, but that particular specimen could scarcely have 

 served for the original description since it does not agree with the 

 original in some essential characters. Uhler's statement *'and 

 sometimes the costal margin red or yellow" does not apply to 

 venaticus, and the statement by itself implies that the type would 

 not have the embolium yellow. In referring to the form with 

 yellow embolium the author probably had in mind one of the 

 eastern species herein described as punctipes or fulvipes. Of 

 about 200 specimens of venaticus which the writer has examined, 

 the em.bolium is never yellowish except narrowly at extreme apex. 



Breeds on Solidago altissima. 



Cheshire, 23 June, 1919 (M. P. Z.) ; Colebrook, 20 July, 1905 (W. E. B.) ; 

 Green's Farms, 24 June, 1904 (W. E. B.) ; Litchfield, 22 July, 1920 (P. G.) ; 

 West Haven, 27 June, 1904 (H. L. V.). 



P. venustus Knight, new species. 



Male: Length 5.2 mm., width 2.3 mm. Head: Width i.oi mm., 

 vertex .38 mm. ; black, a yellow spot each side of vertex bordering 

 eye, lower margin of jugum and upper margin of lorum, red; 

 clothed with sericeous pale pubescence. Rostrum, length 1.14 mm., 

 scarcely exceeding posterior margins of front coxae, piceous, paler 

 at joints. 



Antennae : Segment i, length .81 mm., black, unusually long and 

 thickened (.157mm. thick); ii, 2.06mm., cylindrical, thickness 

 .07 mm., yellowish, apical one-third black, pubescence taking color 

 of surface beneath; iii, 1.02mm., slender, yellowish to fuscous, 

 darker apically; iv, 1.03mm., blackish. 



Pronotum : Length 1.03 mm., width 1.74 mm. ; surface minutely 

 granulate and transversely wrinkled; clothed with yellowish to 

 golden, sericeous pubescence; black, lower pleural margin 

 slenderly reddish. Scutellum black, surface and pubescence as on 



