No. 34-] HEMIPTERA OF CONNECTICUT: MIRIDAE. 619 



Pronotum: Length .97 mm., width at base 1.6 mm. Genital seg- 

 ment with less prominent tubercle above base of left clasper than 

 in lasiomerus. 



Female: Length 6.8 mm., width 2.4 mm.; slightly more robust 

 than the male but very similar in coloration. 



Occurs on mixed herbaceous growth; probably phytophagous. 



Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York. 



Phytocoris rubropictus Knight, new species. 



Female: Length 7.4 mm., width 2.5 mm. Head: Width 

 1.08 mm., vertex .51mm.; very similar to lasiomerus but with 

 brighter red. Rostrum, length 3.57 mm., yellowish to reddish, 

 blackish on apex. 



Antennae: Segment i, length 1.8 mm., thickness .26mm., nearly 

 equal to dorsal thickness of an eye, yellowish and irregularly 

 marked with reddish, more uniformly reddish near apex, clothed 

 with nearly erect black hairs and intermixed with bristle-like hairs 

 which are easily confused with the former ; ii, 3.2 mm., slender, 

 pale, becoming brownish at apex and narrowly reddish at base, 

 pale pubescent; iii, 2.14mm., yellowish, dusky apically; iv, 

 1.67 mm., pale fuscous. 



Pronotum: Length i.ii mm., width at base 1.77mm.; reddish, 

 calli except outer margins, and a nearly quadrangular area on cen- 

 tral portion of disk, yellowish, thus leaving basal margin and broad 

 lateral margins red ; lower margin of propleura pale to yellowish, 

 also a somewhat indistinct yellowish ray across top of coxal cleft 

 and extending to posterior margin ; disk clothed with rather short 

 blackish hairs, lateral margins and collar set with longer hairs, 

 almost destitute of pale sericeous pubescence. Scutellum and 

 mesoscutum uniformly yellow, rather sparsely clothed with short, 

 pale to yellowish pubescent hairs. Sternum yellowish to reddish, 

 pleura reddish to fuscous ; ostiolar peritreme pale to reddish, more 

 reddish above. 



Hemelytra : Embolar margins moderately arcuate ; dull reddish, 

 irregularly irrorate with yellowish; clavus reddish, claval vein 

 yellowish ; corium reddish, inner and outer margins more yellowish 

 than red ; embolium yellowish but with more or less reddish devel- 

 oping in hypodermis ; yellowish pubescent, rather sparsely set with 

 groups of prostrate, pale sericeous pubescence; cuneus uniformly 

 red, inner angle somewhat yellowish. Membrane pale fumate and 

 conspurcate with fuscous, the spots coalescing apically to form 

 fuscous margin at apex, veins red. 



Legs : Yellowish, femora with small irregular reddish spots 

 developing in hypodermis ; hind femora with much less reddish 

 than either lasiomerus or pallidicornis; tarsi fuscous on apices. 



Venter: Yellowish to reddish, yellowish pubescent. 



Male: Length 8 mm., width 2.5 mm.; similar to the female in 

 coloration but in form more slender. Head: Width i.iimm., 

 vertex .48mm. Antennae: Segment i, length 1.97mm., thick- 



