No. 34-] HEMIPTERA OF CONNECTICUT: MIRIDAE. 627 



Occurs on the bark of Linden (Tilia), and on bur oak (Quercus 

 macrocarpa) . 



Branford, 22 Aug., 1904 (H. W. W.). 

 P. vittatus Reuter. 



Acta Soc. Sci. Fenn., xxxvi, No. 2, 28, 1909. 



Female: Length 7.3mm., width 2.2mm. Head: Width 

 1.08 mm., vertex .46 mm.; clothed with long pale pubescence, 

 front and vertex also bearing white sericeous, almost scale-like 

 hairs ; pale testaceous, front obliquely marked with more or less 

 interrupted brown lines, geminate mark on base of tylus, trans- 

 versely but irregularly across middle of tylus, basal margin of 

 jugum, dorsal margin of lorum, dorsal margin of buccula, and 

 line behind lower half of eye, reddish brown to fuscous ; lora 

 prominent, facial angle equal to a right angle. Rostrum, length 

 3.3 mm., reaching upon fifth abdominal segment, pale to yellowish, 

 a reddish streak on basal segment, last two segments fuscous to 

 piceous. 



Antennae: Segment i, length 1,73mm., fusco-reddish, dorsal 

 surface with from ten to twelve white glabrous spots, beset with 

 prominent white bristles which in length exceed thickness of seg- 

 ment, the dark areas clothed with recumbent black hairs, thickest 

 near base, more slender just before apex ; ii, 2.4 mm., slender, 

 fuscous, a prominent pale spot on dorsal surface next to base, a 

 much smaller one slightly beyond, a moderately broad pale or 

 yellowish band on middle but its margins not sharply defined, the 

 fine pubescence taking color of segment beneath; iii, 1.77mm., 

 uniformly dark fuscous, with pale annulus at base ; iv, missing. 



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

 to grayish, lateral margins of disk becoming fuscous, a sinuate 

 interrupted black line forming next to slender pale margin ; clothed 

 with short stiff black hairs and between with white sericeous scale- 

 like pubescence, distinctly thicker along median line, bristle-like 

 hairs on collar white; propleura fuscous, lower margins and 

 xyphus white. Scutellum fuscous to black, irregularly on median 

 line of apical half, basal angles, and along lateral margins, some- 

 what pale ; mesoscutum fuscous to black, clothed like the scutellum 

 with white sericeous scale-like hairs and intermixed with more 

 erect dark hairs. Sternum and pleura fuscous, lower margin of 

 epimeron and ostiolar peritreme white. 



Hemelytra: Embolar margins only very slightly arcuate on 

 middle ; thickly clothed with sericeous scale-like white pubescence, 

 most abundant bordering claval suture, and interspersed with more 

 erect fuscous to black hairs ; clavus fuscous to black, more nearly 

 black on apical half, somewhat paler bordering commissure except 

 apically; corium testaceous to fuscous, a distinctive longitudinal 

 black stripe on apical half of mesocorium, exocorium nearly pale, 

 radial vein outlined with blackish but interrupted to form spots 



