No. 34.] HEMIPTERA OF CONNECTICUT: MIRIDAE. 447 



brownish on basal half ; femora with two rows of very prominent 

 black spots on anterior face, ' posterior face also spotted but the 

 hind pair with only three or four subapical spots, postero-ventral 

 margin with a black line on apical one-third ; tibiae with large and 

 prominent black spots at bases of spines. Venter fulvo-testaceous, 

 genital segment and other segments beneath, becoming dark 

 brownish black; moderately shining, rather finely yellowish 

 pubescent. 



Female: Length 4.4 mm., width 1.7 mm.; more robust than the 

 male but very similar in coloration. 



Holotype: Male, 30 June, 1905, Plummer's Island, Md. (O. Heidemann) ; 

 Cornell University Collection. Allotype : taken with type. Paratypes : 

 Illinois — Males (3), 14 June, 1911, Pinkstaff (C. A. Hart), collected "on 

 roses." Maryland — Males (6) and females (2), taken with types. Male, 

 5 July, 1905, Great Falls (O. Heidemann), collected "on wild roses." 

 Missouri — Male, 12 June, Kansas City (F. Rogers). 



*P. fulvidus Knight, new species. 



Fulvo-testaceous, antennae, lower half of head, and under 

 surface of body, black ; antennal segment ii not equaling width 

 of pronotum at base ; rostrum scarcely attaining hind margins of 

 posterior coxae. 



Male: Length 3.9 mm., width 1.4mm. Head: Width .66 mm., 

 vertex .36 mm. ; fulvo-testaceous, eyes and lower half of head 

 black, lower margin of bucculae, brownish. Rostrum, length 

 1.5 mm., reaching to near hind margins of posterior coxae, 

 yellowish, apex blackish. 



Antennae : Segment i, length .25 mm., black, apex very slenderly 

 pale; ii, 1 mm., black; iii, .64mm., pale fuscous, black at base; 

 iv, .39 mm., fuscous. 



Pronotum: Length .67mm., width at base 1.22mm.; fulvo- 

 testaceous, lower half of pleura and the xyphus black. Scutellum 

 fulvo-testaceous. Sternum, pleura, and ostiolar peritreme, black 

 but with a tinge of reddish. 



Hemelytra : Embolar margins very slightly arcuate ; fulvo- 

 testaceous, disk of corium and apically on corium frequently 

 darkened with fuscous ; cuneus slightly paler than corium ; clothed 

 like the whole dorsum with moderately fine, golden pubescence. 

 Membrane uniformly fuscous, a narrow pale spot bordering apex 

 of cuneus ; veins yellowish. 



Legs : Yellowish to fulvo-testaceous, hind coxae darkened with 

 fuscous on basal half ; hind femora with two rows of fuscous 

 spots on anterior face, the lower row sometimes nearly obsolete ; 

 knees black, spots at base of tibial spines rather small. Venter 

 black, sometimes with a tinge of reddish. 



Female: Length 3.5 mm., width 1.5 mm.; slightly more robust 

 but very similar to the male in coloration. 



Holotype : Male, 30 July, 1910, East River, Conn. (C. R. Ely) ; author's 

 collection. Allotype : taken with type. Paratypes : Connecticut — Male 



