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at middle of clavus and a larger one just opposite on the corium, 

 fusco-brownish, the dark color broken by small irregular pale 

 maculae ; frequently the apex of corium with a smaller dark patch 

 and a series of fusco-brownish spots bordering the claval suture; 

 embolium and cuneus flecked with coagulate spots of reddish. 

 Membrane pale, infuscation usually composed of fine irregular 

 spots, forming a large spot on apex, a smaller one at each side 

 joining margin, the central area and within the cells more sparsely 

 marked with irregular flecks of fuscous; cubitus pale, radius 

 infuscated. 



Legs : Front and middle tibiae pale, triannulate with fuscous, 

 femora and hind tibiae marked nearly as in eximius, infuscation 

 frequently more or less reddish brown. 



Venter: Pale, sides flecked with reddish, basal half of genital 

 segment fuscous except along median line ; flagellum and genital 

 claspers (fig. 149: 24) distinctive of the species. 



Female: Very similar to the male in size and coloration. 



Breeds on Quercus macrocarpa. 



Massachusetts, Maryland, New York. 

 P. infuscatus Reuter. 



Acta Soc. Sci. Fenn., xxxvi, No. 2, 20, 1909. 



Male: Length 5.3 mm., width 1.94 mm. Head : Width .88 mm., 

 vertex .28 mm. ; yellowish, dorsal half of juga, basal half of lora, 

 somewhat on bucculae, and mark between bases of antennae, dark 

 red; tylus dark red, geminate mark on basal half but separated 

 by small wedge on base, yellowish ; front and vertex clothed with 

 prominent yellowish hairs, each side of front with indications of 

 transverse reddish lines. Rostrum, length 2.7 mm., nearly attain- 

 ing base of genital segment, yellowish, blackish at apex. 



Antennae: Segment i, length 1.08 mm., pale to yellowish, fusco- 

 brownish before apex, dusky at base, yellowish to dusky pubescent, 

 basal half with five or six yellowish setae ; ii, 2.74 mm., uniformly 

 yellowish; iii, 1.49mm., yellowish; iv, 1.2mm., yellowish or 

 uniformly dusky. 



Pronotum: Length .84 mm., width at base 1.5 mm. ; disk testa- 

 ceous to fusco-reddish, basal submargin darker, calli and just 

 between pale, dorsal aspect of collar pale, a reddish patch each side 

 of median line, also an orange spot just behind inner angle of 

 each callus ; clothed with rather prominent pale to yellowish pubes- 

 cence ; propleura pale, a fusco-brownish line across lower extremity 

 of coxal cleft and extending to near posterior margin, xyphus and 

 collar beneath pale. Scutellum pale to yellowish, a reddish spot 

 on margin each side of apical half but leaving the median line 

 broadly yellowish. Sternum fuscous, paler on episternum, pleural 

 sclerites fuscous but with margins pale, ostiolar peritreme pale. 



Hemelytra : Embolar margins very slightly arcuate ; reddish to 

 fusco-reddish, irrorate with more or less confluent white spots. 



