No. 34-] HEMIPTERA OF CONNECTICUT: MIRIDAE. 453 



Pronotum: Length .55 mm., width at base 1.11mm. ; black, 

 scarcely shining. Scutellum black. Sternum, pleura, and ostiolar 

 peritreme, dull black. 



Hemelytra: Embolar margins very slightly arcuate; fuscous 

 black, base of cuneus scarcely paler than corium ; yellowish pubes- 

 cent, hairs dusky on cuneus and to some extent on embolium. 

 Membrane uniformly fuscous, veins pale, spot bordering apex of 

 cuneus clear. 



Legs : Dark fuscous, apices of femora slightly yellowish ; small 

 opaque black spots visible on anterior and posterior faces of 

 femora ; tibiae fuscous but black spots at bases of spines showing 

 through the infuscation. Venter black, covered with an opaque 

 bloom. 



Female: Length 3.6 mm., width 1.55 mm.; more ovate and 

 robust than the male but very similar in coloration. 



Food plant : Larix laricina. 



Holotype: Male, 27 June, 1920, Ithaca, N. Y. (H. H. Knight) ; author's 

 collection. Allotype : same data as type. Paratypes : Males and females 

 (64), taken with the types on Larix laricina. Connecticut — Male, 7 July, 

 1920, New Haven (B. H. Walden). Maine — Female, 12 July, Princeton 

 (C. W. Johnson). Male, 5 July, 191 1, Orono. Minnesota — Males and 

 females (36), 12 Aug., 1922, Beaver Dam, Cook County (H. H. Knight). 

 New York — Males and females (18), 26 July, 1916, Ithaca (H. H. Knight). 

 Alberta — Males (2) and females (3), 4 Aug., 1921, Nordegg (J. Mc- 

 Dunnough ) . 



P. repetitus Knight, new species. 



Smaller than laricicola but the dorsal aspect very similar ; legs 

 yellowish, femora with small, rather inconspicuous fuscous dots 

 arranged in series on anterior face. 



Male: Length 3mm., width 1.24mm. Head: Width .64mm., 

 vertex .33 mm. ; black, shining, vertex scarcely paler. Rostrum, 

 length .55 mm., yellowish, basal and apical segments blackish. 



Antennae : Segment i, length .22 mm., black ; ii, .75 mm., black ; 

 iii, .55 mm., fuscous ; iv, .39 mm., pale fuscous. 



Pronotum: Length .53mm., width at base .97mm.; black. 

 Scutellum, sternum, pleura, and ostiolar peritreme black, 

 moderately shining. 



Hemelytra: Embolar margin only very slightly arcuate; black, 

 moderately shining, clothed with fine yellowish pubescence ; cuneus 

 uniformly colored like the corium, not at all paler at fracture. 

 Membrane and veins uniformly pale fuscous, scarcely paler 

 bordering tip of cuneus. 



Legs : Yellowish, coxae fuscous on basal half ; femora spotted 

 with fuscous, arranged in one or two rows on anterior face ; tibiae 

 with rather prominent black spots at bases of spines. Venter 

 black, shining, minutely yellowish pubescent. 



Female: Length 2.9 mm., width 1.16 mm. ; very similar to the 

 male in form and coloration. 



