No. 34-] HEMIPTERA OF CONNECTICUT: MIRIDAE. 



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between calli and near margins of disk; xyphus and collar 

 beneath white. Scutellum yellow, with an oblique black mark on 

 apical half each side of median line, middle of mesoscutum and 

 extending slightly upon scutellum also black ; yellowish pubescent, 

 a few dusky hairs on disk, basal angles, median line, and largely 

 on mesoscutum, clothed with sericeous white tomentum. Sternum 

 and pleura black, slender margin just in front of middle coxae, 

 spot at lower margin of epimeron, and the ostiolar peritreme white. 



Hemelytra : Embolar margins very slightly arcuate ; clavus pale 

 yellowish, becoming fuscous at middle bordering claval suture; 

 corium black, base, spot on middle, and triangular mark at apex 

 bordering cuneus, pale; embolium black, base and three or four 

 spots on middle third, pale; clothed with pale and black pubes- 

 cence, intermixed with small tufts of white sericeous pubescence. 

 Cuneus yellowish, apex and inner margin except near base, black. 

 Membrane uniformly blackish, a small pale spot at apex of cuneus, 

 cubitus at apex of larger areole white. 



Legs: Coxae pale; femora black, irrorate with small and 

 moderately large yellowish spots, bases pale, front pair with pale 

 extending to middle of anterior aspect, extending in the same 

 manner on dorso-posterior aspect of hind pair; hind tibiae black, 

 a broad pale band at middle of basal half, also a pale spot on dorsal 



Fig. 138. Phytocoris nigricollis 

 Knight, — male genital claspers, 

 (a) left clasper, lateral aspect, (b) 

 right clasper, lateral aspect, (c) 

 flagellum. Greatly enlarged. 

 Drawing by Dr. H. H. Knight. 



Fig. 139. Phytocoris husseyi 

 Knight, — male genital claspers, (a) 

 left clasper, lateral aspect with 

 outline of genital segment added, 



(b) right clasper, lateral aspect, 



(c) flagellum. Greatly enlarged. 

 Drawing by Dr. H. H. Knight. 



aspect near knee, spines yellowish, usually a small yellowish spot 

 at base of each; front and middle tibiae white, band at middle, 

 apex, and middle of basal half, black ; tarsi blackish. 



Venter : Deep black, yellowish basally on ventral side, clothed 

 with yellowish to brownish pubescence ; genital claspers distinctive 

 of the species (fig. 138). 



Female: Length 5.1 mm., width 2 mm. ; embolar margins 

 slightly more arcuate than in the male ; coloration very similar to 

 male but more broadly pale on hemelytra. Head : Width .91 mm., 



