6l8 CONNECTICUT GEOL. AND NAT. HIST. SURVEY. [Bull. 



ment; ii, 3.1 mm., uniformly slender, yellowish, apical one-fourth 

 blackish, finely yellowish pubescent except on blackish apex; iii, 

 2.15 mm., yellowish, dusky at apex; iv, 1.54mm., pale fuscous. 



Pronotum: Length 1.07 mm., width at base 1.69 mm.; collar 

 rather broad and flattened ; lateral margins distinctly sulcate, coxal 

 cleft visible from dorsal aspect; fusco-brownish and tinged with 

 reddish, central area of disk paler, more nearly fuscous laterally : 

 lower pleural margin and lateral margins of xyphus, slenderly 

 yellowish ; disk clothed with short erect black hairs and intermixed 

 with pale sericeous pubescence, collar beset with prominent black 

 hairs. Scutellum fusco-brownish, paler at apex and basal angles, 

 clothed with pale sericeous pubescence and intermixed with a few 

 short dark hairs. Sternum yellowish to brownish red, pleura red- 

 dish, margins of sclerites paler ; ostiolar peritreme pale, reddish to 

 fuscous above ostiole. 



Hemelytra: Elongate, embolar margins only very slightly 

 arcuate; fusco-brownish upon a yellowish background, paler on 

 embolium and irregularly so on outer margin of corium, clavus 

 sometimes nearly fuscous ; clothed with pale sericeous pubescence 

 and intermixed with more erect short blackish hairs ; cuneus yel- 

 lowish translucent, apex reddish to blackish, inner half irregularly 

 marked with reddish. Membrane irregularly conspurcate with 

 fuscous, spotting less distinct on apical one-third and becoming 

 clouded with fusco-brownish, veins reddish. 



Legs : Yellowish, femora except base irregularly marked with 

 dark reddish, the pale color appearing as irrorations, front and 

 middle femora more nearly pale, ventral aspect transversely 

 marked with fusco-reddish although somewhat irregularly; front 

 tibiae infuscated at apex, hind pair irregularly marked with fusco- 

 reddish on basal one-fourth ; tarsi fuscous at apex. 



Venter: Reddish to fusco-brownish, clothed with pale pubes- 

 cence ; genital segment with slight tubercle just above base of left 

 clasper, claspers distinctive. 



Female: Length 8 mm., width 2.5 mm. ; very similar to the male 

 but slightly more robust, hemelytra more reddish than fuscous. 



Occurs on mixed herbaceous growth; probably phytophagous. 



Litchfield, 22 July, 1920 (P. G.). 

 P. pallidicornis Reuter. 



Ofv. Kongl. Sv. Vet-Akad. Forh., xxxii, No. 9, 69, 1876. 



Very similar to lasiomerus but distinguished by the uniformly 

 yellowish antennal segment ii, and dorsum more thickly clothed 

 with pale sericeous pubescence ; hemelytra irregularly conspurcate 

 with brownish, clavus never distinctly fuscous. 



Male: Length 6.4 mm., width 2.06 mm. Head : Width 1.03 mm., 

 vertex .37mm. Antennae: Segment i, length 1.4mm., thickness 

 .18 mm., beset with erect black bristle-like hairs, and between with 

 shorter, more recumbent, sparsely set black hairs ; ii, 2.85 mm., 

 uniformly yellowish, finely pale pubescent; iii, 1.83mm., yellow- 

 ish, becoming pale fuscous on apical half; iv, 1.38mm., fuscous. 



