6o6 CONNECTICUT GEOL. AND NAT. HIST. SURVEY. [Bull. 



pronotal disk. Sternum and pleura black; ostiolar peritreme 

 yellowish to reddish. 



Hemelytra : Embolar margins moderately arcuate ; black, opaque, 

 surface rather irregularly roughened, somewhat scabriculous ; 

 clothed with golden and dusky sericeous pubescence. Membrane 

 uniformly dark fuscous, scarcely paler bordering apex of cuneus, 

 veins yellowish. 



Legs: Coxae and basal half of femora deep translucent red, 

 lateral aspect of coxae, but more apically on front pair, becoming 

 fuscous; apical one-half to one-third of femora black, a blackish 

 cloud forming on anterior face of front pair near base; tibiae 

 yellowish to fulvous, basal one-third and the apices black; tarsi 

 yellowish, apical half of third segment fuscous. Venter black, 

 clothed with sericeous silvery pubescence, and on genital segment 

 with simple yellowish dusky hairs. 



Female: Length 5.7 mm., width 2.6 mm.; embolar margins 

 more strongly arcuate apically; more robust than the male but 

 very similar in coloration ; antennal segment i equally thick as that 

 of the male but segment ii slightly more slender. 



Holotype: Male, 3 July, 19 19, Warren Woods, Berrien County, Mich. 

 (R. F. Hussey) ; author's collection. Allotype: taken with type. Para- 

 types: Florida — Females (2), 23 Mar., 1921, Dunedin (W. S. Blatchley). 

 Michigan — Male and female, 26 June, male and females (3), 27 June, male, 

 3 July, type locality; males (3) and females (2), 30 June, 1919, male, 5 

 July, 1920, New Buffalo, Berrien County (R. F. Hussey). North Caro- 

 lina — Male, 21 June, Fayetteville (C. S. Brimley). Virginia — Male, July, 

 1908, Hampton, 



Polymerus gerhardi Knight, new species. 



Female: Length 6.4mm., width 2.8mm. Head: Width 

 1. 16 mm., vertex .51 mm. ; black, vertex pale at each side; clothed 

 with sericeous white pubescence. Rostrum, length 1.08 mm., not 

 attaining hind margins of front coxae, piceous, basal segment and 

 joints reddish. 



Antennae : Segment i, length .64 mm., thickness .143 mm., black ; 

 ii, 2.03 mm., thickness .086 mm., cylindrical, black, rather closely 

 blackish pubescent; iii, .96mm., f usco-brownish ; iv, .88mm., 

 fuscous. 



Pronotum: Length 1.24 mm., width at base 2.14 mm.; black, 

 scarcely shining, rather irregularly rugulose; thickly clothed with 

 sericeous white pubescence ; margins of xyphus, and narrow lower 

 margins of pleura, yellowish. Scutellum black, pubescent as on 

 pronotal disk. Sternum and pleura black; ostiolar peritreme 

 yellowish. 



Hemelytra : Embolar margins moderately arcuate ; black, opaque, 

 thickly clothed with sericeous white pubescence intermixed with 

 more erect, simple black pubescent hairs. Membrane and veins 

 uniformly dark brownish black, scarcely paler bordering apex of 

 cuneus. 



