No. 34-] HEMIPTERA OF CONNECTICUT: LYGAEIDAE. 715 



reaches its northern limits in the south New England states. It 

 is larger than the other species, measuring around 5-6 mm. Color 

 pale ochraceous, with head, pronotum, scutellum and legs punctate 

 with fuscous. The principal veins of the corium and the legs are 

 spotted with ferrugineous. 



New Haven, 20 July, 1904 (B. H. W.). 

 N. ericae (Schilling). (PI. xvi, 25.) 



Beitr. Z. Ent., i, 86, 1829. 



This is the smallest and commonest member of the genus — 3 to 

 4 mm. long ; often becoming destructive to field and garden crops. 

 It may be found sheltering in great numbers under various weeds 

 and grasses in the fall of the year. It is closely related to and 

 resembles the following species in character and markings and 

 likewise was probably introduced from Europe. The characters 

 given in the above key will serve to differentiate these two species. 



New Haven, i Aug., 1904 (P. L. B.), 4 Aug., 1909 (B. H. W.) ; East 

 Hartford, 9 Aug., 1904 (P. L. B.) ; North Haven, 3 Aug., 1905 (H. L. V.) ; 

 Glastonbury, 27 July, 1904 (W. E. B.) ; Poquonock, 27 June, 1905 

 (H. L. V.) ; Orange, 21 May, 1911 (B. H. W.) ; Rainbow, 7, 14 May, 1915 

 (M. P. Z.) ; Brookfield, July, 1910 (E. L. D.). 



N. thymi (Wollf). 



Icon. Cimic, iv, 149, 1804. 



This is a more northernly species which spreads into New Eng- 

 land and although no actual record of it has been made for the 

 state, it has been taken in most all of the other New England states, 

 and should occur in Connecticut. It is slightly larger than the 

 preceding species, with the costal margin of the corium more 

 plainly expanded. Other characters are mentioned in the key. 



Belonochilus Uhler. 



B. numenius (Say). 



Het. New Harm., 15, 1832. 



Yellow, with ferrugineous punctures and rufous apex to the 

 corium. The head is very long, nearly as long as the pronotum 

 and well extended beyond the apex of the basal antennal segment 

 The rostrum is exceptionally long, reaching nearly or quite to the 

 end of abdomen. 



There is no record of this appearing in the state but close collect- 

 ing will certainly discover it as it has been listed from Massa- 

 chusetts and New York. Mr. Otto Heidemann has recorded this 

 species as occurring on the ripened fruits of the Sycamore tree 

 about Washington, D. C. 



Subfamily Cyminae. 



Key to Tribes and Genera. 



I. Head without a curved longitudinal sulcus before each ocellus ; 

 apical angles of antenniferous tubercles not prominent; terminal 



