No. 34-] HEMIPTERA OF CONNECTICUT: MIRIDAE. 649 



P. tibialis Reuter. 



Ofv. Kongl. Sv. Vet-Akad. Forh., xxxii, No. 9, 68, 1876. 



Length 5.1 mm., width 1.9 mm. Chiefly greenish, pronotal disk 

 with four orange stripes ; distinguished by the fuscous Hne on 

 anterior aspect of antennal segment ii, also by the reddish black line 

 on dorsal margin of anterior and intermediate tibiae. Genital 

 claspers distinctive, right clasper very long and exhibiting a 

 relationship with that of olseni. 



Breeds among rank growing herbaceous weeds in damp 

 situations. 



Branford, 20 July, 1905 (H. W. W.) ; East River, Aug., 1910 (C. R. E.). 

 *Phytocoris luteolus Knight, new species. 



Male: Length 5.1 mm., width 1.7mm. Head: Width .94mm., 

 vertex .27 mm. ; median line of vertex impressed, clothed with 

 prominent yellowish hairs ; yellow, above base of antenna, trans- 

 verse mark at base of front, rather broadly on middle of tylus, juga 

 except apex, and basally on lora, orange to bright red. Rostrum, 

 length 2.29 mm., reaching upon fifth abdominal segment, yellowish, 

 apex blackish. 



Antennae: Segment i, length 1.17mm., pale yellowish, tinged 

 with orange at apex; ii, 2.64mm., uniformly pale yellowish; iii, 

 1.44mm., yellowish; iv, 1.03 mm., yellowish. 



Pronotum: Length .77 mm., width at base 1.36 mm.; bright 

 yellow, broad ray behind eye and extending along lateral margin 

 of disk, ray behind dorsal margin of eye and extending to front 

 margin of callus, and small spot behind inner half of callus, orange 

 colored; calli, xyphus, and propleura, more pale than yellowish. 

 Scutellum uniformly bright yellow. Sternum and pleura pale to 

 yellowish, ostiolar peritreme white. 



Hemelytra: Embolar margins scarcely arcuate; clothed like 

 the pronotum and scutellum with pale yellowish pubescence ; yellow 

 translucent, basal one-third of corium and one- fourth of embolium 

 marked with reddish orange reticulations, several irregular orange 

 spots on outer half of clavus ; apex of clavus and inner margins 

 of cuneus with spots of bright red. Membrane pale fumate, larger 

 areole fuscous, apical half conspurcate with fuscous, veins 

 yellowish to fuscous. 



Legs : Pale, anterior and middle femora more yellowish ; hind 

 femora with apical half or two-thirds of dorsal surface reddish to 

 fusco-reddish, anterior face broadly pale but with red specks, the 

 dark color irrorate with small pale spots, with one or two larger 

 yellowish spots on dorsal surface of apical half ; hind tibiae pale 

 but with reddish near base ; tips of tarsi fuscous. 



Venter: Uniformly yellowish; genital claspers and flagellum 

 distinctive of the species (fig. 143). 



Female: One specimen is at hand, June 9, 191 7, Auburn, Ala- 

 bama (H. H. Knight) which apparently belongs here; similar to 



