No. 34-] HEMIPTERA OF CONNECTICUT: MIRIDAE. 615 



Ad ale: Length 6 mm., width 2 mm. ; chiefly yellowish green 

 below, pronotum with two broad black rays ; hemelytra yellowish 

 orange, with two broad, irregular, longitudinal blackish stripes. 



Female: Length 7 mm., width 2.4 mm. ; yellowish green, prono- 

 tum with two prominent black spots on disk, one behind each 

 callus ; corium with longitudinal fuscous stripe. 



Breeds on Dactylus glomerata, and probably to some extent on 

 other grasses. 



Branford, 13 June, 1918 (B. H. W.) ; New Haven, 16 June, 25 June, 

 2 July, 1920 (B. H. W.) ; Stamford, 24 June, 1920 (W. E. B.). 



Garganus Stal. 

 G. fusiformis (Say). 



Compl. Writ., i, 344, 1859. 



Length 3.8-4 mm., width 1.5 mm.; black, embolium, outer 

 margin of cuneus, and narrowly along commissure, pale; legs, 

 antennal segment i, and sometimes the venter, reddish yellow. 



Breeds on Tussilago far far a, and occurs on other herbaceous 

 plants found growing in damp situations. 



Branford, 29 July, 1905 (H. W. W.) ; Cornwall, 10 Aug., 1918 

 (B. H. W.). 



Neurocolpus Reuter. 



N. nubilus (Say). 



Compl. Writ, i, 341, 1859. 



Length 5.7-6.8 mm., width 2 mm. ; exceedingly variable in color- 

 ation ; usually light yellowish brown to reddish brown or black. 



Food plants : Cephalanthus occidentalism Rhus sp., and probably 

 others. 



Cornwall, 10 Aug., 1919 (B. H. W.) ; Hamden, 24 July, 1910 

 (B. H. W.) ; 9 Aug., 1920 (M. P. Z.) ; New Haven, 6 July, 1904 

 (H. L. V.) ; 13 July, 1904 (W. E. B.) ; 16 Aug., 1904 (B. H. W.). 



Phytocoris Fallen. 



Key to Groups of Phytocoris. 



1. Wing membrane conspurcate, or irrorate with pale; median lobe 



of male genital structure provided with a flagellum, without 



(junceus excepted) or rarely bearing distinct teeth 



(p. 616) Group I 

 Wing membrane either marbled, uniformly fuscous, or nearly 

 pale, never distinctly conspurcate (except perhaps in well marked 

 forms of quercicola), sometimes with margins of fuscous areas 

 separating into small specks but more marbled than conspurcate ; 

 median lobe of male genital structure with a flagellum bearing 

 distinct teeth 2 



2. Antennal segment i, in length, distinctly greater than width of head 3 

 Antennal segment i, in length, not equal to width of head 



(p. 641) Group in 



3. Antennae more blackish or fuscous than pale, if segment ii broadly 



