44 2 CONNECTICUT GEOL. AND NAT. HIST. SURVEY. [Bull. 



vertex .37 mm. ; black, vertex yellowish. Rostrum, length 

 1.26 mm., only reaching to middle of intermediate coxae, black, 

 yellowish on third segment. 



Antennae: Segment i, length .34 mm. ; ii, 1.27 mm., cylindrical, 

 not equal to thickness of segment i, clothed with fine dusky pubes- 

 cence; iii, .59mm., black; iv, mutilated; all the segments black. 



Pronotum: Length .67 mm., width at base 1.31mm.; black, 

 shining, clothed with yellowish pubescence. Scutellum and meso- 

 scutum black ; sternum and pleura black, lower margin of epimeron 

 and ostiolar peritreme, pale. 



Hemelytra : Embolar margin only very slightly arcuate ; black, 

 shining, cuneus uniformly black like the corium. Membrane uni- 

 formly dark fuscous, scarcely paler bordering apex of cuneus, 

 veins brownish. 



Legs : Black, femora yellowish at apex, anterior pairs more 

 broadly yellowish on posterior face ; tibiae yellowish, spines and 

 large spots at base black ; tarsi blackish, first two segments brown- 

 ish. Venter black, shining, yellowish pubescent ; genital structures 

 distinctive of the species. 



Holotype : Male, 11 July, 1905, Thompson, Conn. (H. L. Viereck) ; 

 author's collection. A specimen is at hand, male, 8 Aug., 1898, Fort Collins, 

 Col. (E. D. Ball), which the writer is unable to separate from this species. 



P. annulatus Uhler. 



Uhler, Hemip. Colo., 51, 1895. 



Male: Length 4.2 mm., width 1.5 mm.; brownish black, rather 

 slender, shining ; pubescence golden yellow ; legs pale to yellowish, 

 basal half of coxae, apical tarsal segment and the claws, spots and 

 spines on tibiae, knees, a dorsal and ventral line and four or five 

 spots on anterior face of femora, black ; femora sometimes shaded 

 with brownish ; antennal segments iii and iv, rostrum except basal 

 segment and extreme apex, basal carina of vertex, and sometimes 

 front margin of pronotum, yellowish to brown or darker. 



Female: Length 4.2 mm., width 1.6 mm. ; very similar to the 

 male but slightly more robust. 



Originally described from a single female specimen from 

 Colorado. 



Allotype: Male, 16 July, 1909, Denver, Col. (W. J. Gerhard) ; author's 

 collection. 



Huntington, 9 July, 1920 (B. H. W.) ; New Haven, 4 July, 1905 

 (H. L. V.) ; 8 July, 1912 (B. H. W.), collected at light. 



P. annulatus var. cuneatus Knight, new variety. 



Smaller than annulatus, cuneus distinctly pale at base; femora 

 yellowish, spotted with black but without forming black lines; 

 pubescence yellowish to golden. This form may possibly represent 

 a distinct species. 



Male: Length 4mm., width 1.5mm. Head: width .75mm., 

 vertex .36 mm. ; black, scarcely paler on vertex. Rostrum, length 

 1. 61 mm., yellowish, basal segment blackish except apex, apical 

 segment brownish toward apex. 



