No. 34-] HEMIPTERA OF CONNECTICUT: MIRIDAE. 657 



calli, fulvous to reddish, sometimes rather broadly tinged with 

 fulvous ; antennae except apical segment, and tibiae, pale yellowish, 

 femora frequently f usco-reddish ; clothed with recumbent fine 

 yellowish pubescence, femora rather sparsely set with long pilose 

 hairs, longest on posterior pair. 



Male: Length 6.4 mm., width at base of cuneus, 1.33 mm. 

 Head : Width i mm., vertex .27 mm., with sulcus on median line 

 of vertex. Antennae: Segment i, length 1.46mm.; ii, 3.45 mm.; 

 iii, 2.85 mm. ; iv, .86 mm. ; yellowish, segment iv reddish black. 



Female: Very similar to the male in form and coloration, the 

 dorsum sometimes more broadty fulvous or reddish. 



Occurs on grape vines ( Vitis sp. ) . 



Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, N. Y. 4 Aug., 1902 (H. G. Barber). 



Barberiella Poppius. 

 B. apicalis Knight, new species. 



Male: Length 5mm., width 1.6 mm. Head: Width 1.14mm., 

 vertex .43 mm. ; strongly vertical, vertex and base of front dis- 

 tinctly impressed along median line but not grooved; brownish 

 black, clothed with pale pubescence and short hairs, more promi- 

 nent on front. Rostrum, length 1.99 mm., reaching upon base of 

 hind coxae, dark brown. 



Antennae : Segment i, length .52 mm., dark brown, finely and 

 closely pubescent, with two or three erect hairs near apex but not 

 equal to thickness of segment ; ii, 2.03 mm., cylindrical, thickness 

 slightly greater than segment i, more slender near base, dark 

 brown, finely and closely pubescent; iii, i.ii mm., slender, dark 

 brown ; iv, .68 mm., dark brown. 



Pronotum: Length 1.24 mm., width at base 1.59 mm., anterior 

 angles .84 mm., apical one-third nearly cylindrical or to a point 

 just behind calli, from thence flaring to basal margin but forming 

 nearly a straight line, disk strongly convex, calli scarcely apparent 

 but with two impressed points just between; brownish black, 

 darker anteriorly, surface alutaceous, pale pubescent and sparsely 

 interspersed with erect pilose hairs. Scutellum conically produced, 

 the point bent over and directed to the rear, sparsely set with long 

 pilose hairs, mesoscutum broadly exposed, sloping downward to 

 base of scutellum from which it is not distinctly separated ; dark 

 brown, moderately shining. Sternum and pleura dark brown, 

 posterior half of epimeron white, ostiolar peritreme dark brown, 

 with a protuberant point just above the ostiole. 



Hemelytra: Embolar margins strongly constricted at middle, 

 disk nearly flat, cuneus strongly declivitous ; clothed with moder- 

 ately sparse golden yellow pubescence and interspersed with more 

 erect fine hairs, more prominent on clavus ; clavus dull fusco- 

 brownish, a triangular pruinose field extending upon middle from 



