234 CONNECTICUT GEOL. AND NAT. HIST. SURVEY. [Bull. 



a linea, postice a fascia indistincta fuscis terminata, callo rotundata fere 

 apicali ad marginem costalem nervisque apicalibus hie illic fuscis. Subtus 

 nigro-varia. Pedes dilute fiavescentes, vitta femorum maculisque tibiarum 

 nigro-fuscis. 



C. proteus Fitch. (PI. iv, 30.) (Fig. 20, 70-73.) 



Clastoptera proteus Fitch. Cat. Horn. N. Y., 54, 55, 1851. 



Clastoptera proteus Fitch. Sub-species flavicollis. 



Clastoptera proteus Fitch. Sub-species cincticollis. 



Clastoptera proteus Fitch. Sub-species maculicollis. 



Clastoptera proteus Fitch. Sub-species nigricollis. 



Clastoptera proteus Fitch, var. vittata Ball. Proc. la. Acad. Sci., iii, 

 186, 1895. 



Clastoptera plni Fitch. Cat. Horn. N. Y., 53, 1851. 



Clastoptera saint-cyri Provancher. Nat. Can., iv, 351, 1872. 



Black, often conspicuously marked with bright yellow; front 

 strongly inflated, disc sharply rounded convex, rising abruptly 

 from face at sides, without transverse striae, upper two-thirds 

 black, lower third yellow ; size medium to large. Length 

 3.5-4 mm. ; width 2-2.5 mm - 



Vertex very slightly depressed transversely, anterior margin not 

 distinctly carinated ; ocelli nearer each other than eyes ; front 

 strongly inflated, disc sharply rounded convex, rising abruptly 

 from face at sides, upper two-thirds black, lower third, lorae, and 

 clypeus yellow, a medium black dot on clypeus ; abdomen black 

 or fuscous, legs bright yellow, a lateral line on femur, one on each 

 side of tibia, tarsal segments and last segment of rostrum, black; 

 pronotum indistinctly wrinkled transversely, anterior margin but 

 slightly produced between the eyes ; hemelytral margins broadly, 

 regularly rounding from base to apex. 



New Haven, 4 July, Putnam, 12 July, West Thompson, 12 July, Cole- 

 brook, 21 July, 1905 (H. L. V.) ; Windsor, 26 July, 1905 (W. E. B.) ; 

 Portland, 14 July, 1914, Hamden, 15 July, 1918 (M. P. Z.). 

 C. proteus var. saint-cyri Provancher (flava Ball 1895). 



Anterior two-thirds of clavus yellow ; scutellum with a yellow 

 spot, or black. 



Distribution : Specimens have been examined from Maine, New 

 Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, 

 District of Columbia, Ohio, Wisconsin, Arkansas, Colorado, Cali- 

 fornia, and Ontario and Quebec (Can.). It has been reported 

 from North Carolina (Metcalf). 



Brookfield, 27 July, ? (E. L. D.). 

 C. proteus var. vittata Ball. 



Clavus yellow with an oblique black vitta through the middle ; 

 pronotum variable, with one yellow band anteriorly, with two 

 yellow bands anteriorly, or entirely yellow. 



Distribution : Specimens have been examined from Maine, New 

 Hampshire, Massachusetts, Wisconsin, and Ohio. 

 C. proteus var. pini Fitch, (nigra Ball 1895). 



Clavus entirely black ; anterior margin of pronotum narrowly, 



