62 2 CONNECTICUT GEOL. AND NAT. HIST. SURVEY. [Bull. 



Antennae: Segment i, length 1.21 mm., thickness .11 mm., 

 slightly thicker at apex, fuscous to black, with six or seven small 

 pale spots on dorsal surface, clothed with fine black hairs and 

 interspersed with several erect black bristles on inner and dorsal 

 surface ; ii, 3.2 mm., slender, cylindrical, clothed with short black- 

 ish pubescent hairs, fuscous to black, becoming black apically ; iii, 

 2mm., uniformly blackish; iv, i mm., uniformly blackish. 



Pronotum: Length 1.17 mm., width at base 2.03 mm.; black, 

 moderately shining, pale to yellowish between calli and on central 

 area of disk, thus leaving basal and lateral margins broadly black, 

 but with basal margin slenderly pale; clothed with short erect 

 black hairs, a single prominent black bristle at anterior angles of 

 disk, collar beset with several bristles, paler area of disk also with 

 finer and more recumbent yellowish pubescence ; xyphus and lower 

 pleural margins pale to greenish. Scutellum black, slightly shin- 

 ing, strongly convex, clothed with blackish hairs, basal angles 

 whitish ; mesoscutum rather broadly exposed, blackish, a yellowish 

 spot near lateral margins. Sternum and pleura black, pleura more 

 strongly shining, lower margin of epimera of mesothorax and the 

 ostiolar peritreme, white. 



Hemelytra: Black with pale; clavus largely pale but with 

 margins and claval vein black; corium black, a prominent pale 

 spot on middle, a pale indication near base, and with slender pale 

 streak on apical area bordering radius, also somewhat pale along 

 outer margin of radius at middle and beyond; embolium rather 

 uniformly f usco-blackish ; cuneus black, pale to reddish on base; 

 clothed with short black hairs and intermixed with recumbent, 

 somewhat sericeous pale pubescence. Membrane dark fuscous, 

 somewhat paler on middle but conspurcate with coalescing spots 

 of fuscous, a small pale spot bordering apex of cuneus ; veins 

 fuscous, brachium pale at apical junction of smaller and larger 

 areole. 



Legs : Coxae pale to greenish, becoming fuscous near apices ; 

 femora chiefly blackish, marked with small pale spots, hind pair 

 with an irregular incomplete subapical band, more conspicuous on 

 anterior aspect, clothed with black hairs ; tibiae pale to brownish 

 black, dark at base and apically, spines and the spots at base black, 

 also with irregular fuscous spots between ; tarsi black. 



Venter: Brownish black, moderately shining, pale to brownish 

 pubescent; genital claspers distinctive of the species (fig. 135). 



Holotype: Male, 24 July, 1915, Mt. Washington, alt. 2500 ft., New 

 Hampshire (C. W. Johnson) ; author's collection. Paratypes : Male, 23 

 July, male, 30 July, male, i Aug., male, 7 Aug., 1921, Nordegg, Alberta 

 (J. McDunnough). 



P. minutulus Renter. 



Acta Soc. Sci. Fenn., xxxvi. No. 2, 24, 1909. 



Female: Length 5.1mm., width 1.7mm. Head: Width 

 .83 mm., vertex .37 mm. ; chiefly fusco-brownish, front clothed 



