43° CONNECTICUT GEOL. AND NAT. HIST. SURVEY. [Bull. 



Campylomma Renter. 

 C. verbasci (Meyer). 



Capsus verbasci Meyer, Verz. Schw. Rhyn.. 70, pi. 4, fig. 1, 1843. 



Reuter, Hem. Gymn. Eur., i, 53, pi. 3, fig. 6, 1878. 



Length male 2.5 mm., width 1.1mm. ; female length 2.9 mm., 

 width 1.3 mm. Pale testaceous to yellowish, mesoscutum and base 

 of scutellum becoming fulvous, disk of cuneus pale fuscous ; tylus, 

 apical half of antennal segment i and slender base of ii, large spots 

 on femora and tibiae, black ; body beneath dark f usco-brownish ; 

 clothed with simple, dusky to blackish pubescence ; membrane 

 uniformly pale fumate. 



Breeds on mullein (Verbascum sps.) ; occasionally breeds on 

 apple; sometimes is attracted to colonies of aphids where it feeds 

 on honey dew. 



Branford, 28 July, 1905 (H. W. W.) ; Hamden, 14 June, 191 1 

 (W. E. B.) ; New Haven, 21 June, 1909 (B. H. W.) ; Westville, 6 Aug., 

 1905 (W. E. B.) ; North Haven, 3 Aug., 1905 (H. L. V.). 



Chlamydatus Curtis. 

 C. associatus (Uhler). 



Hayden's Surv. Terr., Rept. for 1871, p. 419, 1872. 



Length 2.5 mm., width 1 mm. ; black; front and middle legs, 

 hind tibiae, and first two segments of all the tarsi, yellowish ; 

 antennal segments iii and iv pale fuscous. 



Food plant: Rag weed (Ambrosia) . 



Cornwall, 10 Aug., 1919 (B. H. W.) ; New Haven, 28 Aug., 1910, 12 

 Sept., 1904 (B. H. W.). 



C. sua vis (Reuter). 



Ofv. Kongl. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Forh., xxxii, No. 9, 92, 1876. 



Length 2.28 mm., width .97 mm. ; slightly smaller than associa- 

 tus, entirely black except the tibiae which are pale yellow. 



Food plant: Rag weed (Ambrosia) . 



New Jersey. Staten Island, N. Y. 

 C. pulicarius (Fallen). 



Lygaeus pulicarius Fallen, Mon. Cim. Suec., 95, 1807. 



Reuter, Hem. Gymn. Eur., i, 60, pi. 3, fig. 8, 1878. 



Male: Length 2.8 mm., width 1.69 mm. ; ovate, embolar margin 

 distinctly arcuate ; membrane short, its area not exceeding size of 

 cuneus ; black, apical half of femora more or less, tibiae, and tarsi, 

 pale ; antennae pale, segment ii except apex, and base of segment i, 

 black; tibial spines black, a fuscous spot at base of each; clothed 

 with fine yellowish to dusky, adpressed pubescent hairs. 



Female: Length 2.9mm., width 1.61 mm.; very similar to the 

 male but more robust, the legs and antennae usually more broadly 

 pale. 



Breeds on Plant a go. 



New York. 



