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CONNECTICUT GEOL. AND NAT. HIST. SURVEY. 



[Bull. 



fumate or nearly clear, areoles rather finely and obsoletely con- 

 spurcate with pale fuscous ; apical half of hind femora reticulate 

 with red and bearing blackish hairs but leaving a yellowish sub- 

 apical band, and in this respect very similar to the female. 



This species was described by Reuter (1876) with New York 

 designated as the type locality, the description evidently drawn 

 from the female only. The male here described (fig. 147) has 

 been recognized by association with female specimens which sex 

 seems to occur in greater abundance. The sexes of puella exhibit 

 a greater variation in color than do other closely related species 

 herein described. 



East River, Aug., 1910 (C. R. E.) ; New Haven, 4 Aug., 1920 

 (B. H. W.). 



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Fig. 147. Phytocoris puella 

 Reuter, — male genital claspers, (b) 

 right clasper, lateral aspect, (c) 

 flagellum. Greatly enlarged. 

 Drawing by Dr. H. H. Knight. 



Fig. 148. Phytocoris depictus 

 Knight, — male genital claspers, 

 (b') right clasper, lateral aspect 

 with outline of genital segment 

 added, (c) flagellum. Greatly 

 enlarged. Drawing by Dr. H. H. 

 Knight. 



Phytocoris depictus Knight, new species. 



Closely related to puella but antennal segment i shorter, also 

 differs in coloration. 



Male: Length 4.1 mm., width 1.5 mm. Head: Width .78mm., 

 vertex .27 mm. ; marked with orange and red, nearly as in puella. 

 Rostrum, length 1.93 mm., reaching upon fifth abdominal segment, 

 yellowish, blackish at apex. 



Antennae : Segment i, length .83 mm., thickest near base and 

 tapering to more slender just before apex, yellowish, with a few 

 red dots on anterior aspect, with seven or eight fuscous setae on 

 basal half of dorsal aspect; ii, 1.97 mm., uniformly pale yellowish; 

 iii, .96 mm., yellowish ; iv, .97 mm., yellov/ish. 



Pronotum : Length .71 mm., width at base 1.23 mm. ; pale testa- 

 ceous with dusky, calli pale, disk with four orange stripes, collar 

 each side of median line and behind eye orange colored ; clothed 

 with pale yellowish pubescent hairs, fuscous near basal margin, 

 and sparsely intermixed with pale sericeous pubescence ; propleura 

 with red across lower half of coxal cleft, more diffusely behind it. 



