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CONNECTICUT GEOL. AND NAT. HIST. SURVEY. 



[Bull. 



Female: Length 4.7 mm., width 1.9 mm.; more robust than the 

 male but very similar in coloration. 



Holotype: Male, 8 Aug., 1910, East River, Conn. (C. R. Ely) ; author's 

 collection. Allotype : taken with the type. Paratypes : Females (4) , July- 

 Sept., 1910, type locality (C. R. Ely). District of Columbia — Female, 12 

 July, 1909, Washington (O. Heidemann). New York — Female, 10 Sept., 

 1917, Syracuse (C. J. Drake). 



Phytocoris caryae Knight, nev^ species. 



Male: Length 5.3 mm., width 1.74 mm. Head : Width .93 mm., 

 vertex .28 mm. ; yellow, small spot behind dorsal margin of each 

 eye, irregular large spot each side of front, and spot on dorsal 

 margin or lora, orange colored ; front and vertex bearing promi- 

 nent pale hairs. Rostrum, length 2.2 mm., reaching upon fifth 

 abdominal segment, pale yellowish, brownish black at apex. 



Antennae: Segment i, length 1.14mm., yellow, anterior aspect 

 with small orange spots, largest one just before apex, setae pale to 

 dusky; ii, 2.46mm., uniformly pale yellow; iii, 1.5mm., yellow; 

 iv, 1. 1 6 mm., yellow, dusky at apex. 



Pronotum: Length .81 mm., width at base 1.44 mm.; greenish 

 yellow, with four orange stripes on disk, sometimes joining 

 basally; calli pale, collar with broad orange spot each side of 

 median line and extending to touch callus ; propleura with small 

 orange ray behind lower half of coxal cleft; clothed with pale 

 yellowish pubescent hairs, a few dusky hairs on basal margin. 



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venustus 



Fig. 145. Phytocoris venustus 

 Knight, — male genital claspers, 



(b) right clasper, lateral aspect, 



(c) flagellum. Greatly enlarged. 

 Drawing by Dr. H, H. Knight. 



coryae 



Fig. 146. Phytocoris caryae 

 Knight, — male genital claspers, 



(b) right clasper, lateral aspect, 



(c) flagellum. Greatly enlarged- 

 Drawing by Dr. H. H. Knight. 



Scutellum greenish yellow, an oblique orange mark each side of 

 median line at middle. Sternum and pleura pale yellowish. 



Hemelytra: Embolar margins very slightly arcuate; pale to 

 greenish yellow ; mottled with f usco-orange, darkest on clavus and 

 irrorate with large irregular greenish yellow spots, apical one-fifth 

 of corium nearly uniformly greenish yellow, embolium with a few 

 scattering reddish orange spots ; tip of clavus with dusky spot and 

 beset with prominent black hairs; cuneus yellowish translucent. 



