No. 34-] HEMIPTERA OF CONNECTICUT: MIRIDAE. 623 



with prominent yellowish pubescence. Rostrum, length 2.66 mm., 

 reaching upon sixth abdominal segment, pale yellowish, blackish 

 at apex. 



Antennae: Segment i, length 1.28mm., thickest near base and 

 most slender just before apex, beset on inner and dorsal surface 

 with several prominent pale spines, reddish to fuscous but with 

 several irregular pale glabrous spots; ii, 2.43mm., yellowish 

 brown, fuscous at apex and next to the pale annulus at base ; iii, 

 1.6 mm., yellowish to dusky, pale at base and becoming darker 

 apically; iv, 1.47 mm., pale fuscous. 



Pronotum : Length .74 mm., width at base 1.36 mm. ; testaceous 

 to fuscous, basal margin of disk pale but the submargin with dark 

 fuscous bordering the pale ; propleura chiefly pale, with a brownish 

 black ray across lower half of coxal cleft which extends to basal 

 margin; clothed with short black hairs and interspersed between 

 with pale sericeous pubescence. Scutellum testaceous to dusky, 

 with a small fuscous dot each side on margin near apex. Sternum 

 and pleura testaceous to fuscous; ostiolar peritreme pale but 

 becoming fuscous above. 



Hemelytra: Embolar margins very slightly arcuate; clavus 

 pale to fuscous, paler bordering scutellum and on claval suture; 

 embolium fuscous but with pale irrorations; corium fuscous, 

 irregularly pale bordering embolium, tinged with brownish on basal 

 half, anal ridge pale ; pubescence similar to that of pronotum but 

 the pale sericeous hairs grouped in places to form white spots. 

 Cuneus pale translucent, reddish to black on apex and with black 

 spot at base and middle of membrane margin. Membrane con- 

 spurcate with fuscous, a paler spot near apex of cuneus and a 

 second one on margin slightly beyond, veins reddish except that 

 separating areoles. 



Legs : Coxae pale, a reddish spot near base of lateral aspect ; 

 femora brownish black, chiefly pale on basal one-third and the 

 blackish area irrorate with pale spots, also with a fairly distinct 

 subapical pale band, pale irrorations largest on dorsal aspect but 

 very small beyond the subapical pale band ; hind tibiae pale, black- 

 ish on basal one-fifth, also with a fuscous band at middle; front 

 tibiae fuscous, with three pale annuli which leave base and apex 

 dark ; intermediate tibiae scarcely fuscous at apex, with a narrow 

 fuscous band somewhat before apex, a broader one at middle, and 

 rather broadly fuscous or reddish near base but marked with pale 

 spots ; tarsi pale, apices fuscous, basal segment dusky. 



Venter: Testaceous to reddish and fuscous, more fuscous on 

 vagina exterior and ventrally on genital segments. 



Male: Length 5 mm., width 1.55 mm.; very similar to the 

 female but more slender ; genital claspers distinctive. 



Allotype: Female, 9 Aug., 1919, Cold Spring Harbor, N. Y. (H. M. 

 Parshley) ; author's collection. 



East River, 8 Aug., 7 Sept., 1910 (C. R. E.). 



