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CONNECTICUT GEOL. AND NAT. HIST. SURVEY. 



[Bull. 



the male except that base of cuneus and basal margin of pronotal 

 disk is more broadly red. 



Holotype: Male, 4 July, 1920, New Haven, Conn. (B. H. Walden). 

 P. confluens Reuter. 



Phytocoris puella van confluens Reuter, Acta. Soc. Sci. Fenn., xxxvi, No. 

 2, 20, 1909. 



Male: Length 4.6 mm., width 1.43 mm. Head : Width .83 mm., 

 vertex .26 mm. ; chiefly bright red, geminate mark on base of tylus, 

 juga and lora apically, and ventral margin of bucculae, pale. 

 Rostrum, length 2.2 mm., reaching upon sixth abdominal segment, 

 pale to yellowish, blackish at apex. 



Fig. 143. Phytocoris luteolus 

 Knight, — male genital claspers, 

 (bO right clasper, lateral aspect, 

 (c) flagellum. Greatly enlarged. 

 Drawing by Dr. H. H. Knight. 



conr/uens 



Fig. 144. Phytocoris confluens 

 Reuter, — male genital claspers, (aa) 

 left clasper, dorsal aspect, (b) right 

 clasper, lateral aspect, (c) flagellum. 

 Greatly enlarged. Drawing by Dr. 

 H. H. Knight. 



Antennae : Segment i, length i mm., reddish yellow, pubescence 

 and spines pale yellowish ; ii, 2.42 mm., uniformly yellowish ; iii, 

 .91 mm., yellowish; iv, 1.57mm., yellowish. 



Pronotum : Length .70 mm., width at base i mm. ; deep reddish, 

 becoming blackish at anterior angles of disk, calli fuscous with red, 

 with pale ray or spots behind each callus, basal margin slenderly 

 pale except at basal angles ; propleura deep red, lower margins and 

 xyphus pale ; • clothed with yellowish to dusky pubescence, disk 

 with yellowish sericeous pubescence intermixed. Scutellum red, 

 basal angles and apex pale, median line scarcely indicated with pale. 

 Sternum and pleura dark red, ostiolar peritreme and ventral 

 margin of epimera, white. 



Hemelytra : Red, conspurcate with small to medium sized irrora- 

 tions, cuneus with pale spots on inner margin and across middle ; 

 clothed with yellowish to dusky pubescence, intermixed with 

 yellowish sericeous pubescence which may be white over the pale 

 spots. Membrane uniformly pale fumate, veins red. 



Legs : Pale to yellowish, anterior femora more reddish yellow 

 apically, tibiae without annulations ; hind femora red, pale at base, 

 rather thickly irrorate with small pale spots although at times 



