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basal half more fuscous than reddish; corio-membranal margin 

 blackish; cuneus more heavily red, broken by small pale irrora- 

 tions on middle. Membrane fumate to fusco-brownish, infusca- 

 tion of areoles somewhat broken into small conspurcate spots, 

 apical half with slightly darker fuscous area touching margin 

 beyond cuneus. 



Legs : Pale to yellowish, hind femora except basal one-third, 

 reddish black, irrorate with small yellowish spots, with larger spots 

 on dorsal aspect at middle, a yellowish band at slightly beyond 

 middle of apical half, its margins irregular and nearly confluent on 

 ventral side ; front tibiae with indistinct brownish band on middle 

 and at slightly below knee, hind pair with broad reddish band at 

 base. 



Venter : Yellowish to fuscous, darker laterally and on genital 

 segment; genital claspers and flagellum distinctive of the species 

 (fig. 141). 



infuscatus 



Fig. 141. Phytocoris infuscatus 

 Reuter, — male genital claspers, 

 (b) right clasper, lateral aspect 

 with outline of genital segment 

 added, (c) flagellum. Greatly en- 

 larged. Drawing by Dr. H. H. 

 Knight. 



oben'i 



Fig. 142. Phytocoris I s eni 

 Knight, — male genital claspers, 



(a) left clasper, lateral aspect, 



(b) right clasper, lateral aspect, 



(c) flagellum. Greatly enlarged. 

 Drawing by Dr. H. H. Knight. 



Female: Length 5.5 mm., width 2 mm.; more robust than the 

 male, very similar in coloration but more broadly pale on apical 

 half of corium, with pale and orange rays behind calli. 



Breeds on hickory (Carya). 



Plesiotypes : Male and female, 31 July, 1916, Batavia, N. Y. (H. H. 

 Knight) ; compared with type. 



Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania. 



Phytocoris olseni Knight, new species. 



Male: Length 6.1 mm., width 2.2 mm. Head : Width 1.03 mm., 

 vertex .38 mm. ; pale yellowish, vertex with mark each side at base, 

 median line, arc each side of front composed of short transverse 

 marks, irregularly across middle of tylus, dorsal margin of lora, 

 lora except for spot on middle, dorsal margin of bucculae, and 

 genae, orange-red ; front and vertex clothed with rather prominent 



