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



Maine — Male, 1 Aug., 1910, Penobscot County (Cushman). North 

 Carolina, Canada. 



R. miniatus Knight, new species. 



Smaller than rubricans and more uniformly red; length of 

 antennal segment ii distinctly greater than width of pronotum at 

 base. 



Male: Length 3.4mm., width 1.36mm Head: Width .67mm., 

 vertex .31 mm.; red, becoming dark fuscous on tylus. Rostrum, 

 length 1.28 mm., attaining middle of hind coxae, fusco-brownish. 



Antennae : Segment i, length .25 mm., f usco-reddish ; ii, 

 1. 16 mm., uniformly dark fusco-reddish ; iii, .72 mm., pale reddish 

 to dusky ; iv, .36 mm., dusky. 



Pronotum: Length .50 mm., width at base 1.0mm. ; bright 

 cinnabar red, shining. Scutellum scarcely darker than pronotal 

 disk ; sternum, pleura, and ostiolar peritreme, bright red. 



Hemelytra : Embolar margin nearly straight ; uniformly colored 

 dragon's blood red ; clothed with fine dusky pubescence. Mem- 

 brane and veins uniformly pale fuscous, scarcely paler bordering 

 apex of cuneus. 



Legs : Reddish, tibiae pale to dusky and tinged with reddish, tips 

 of tarsi darker. Venter rather uniformly fusco-reddish, shining, 

 finely pale pubescent. 



Holotype: Male, 28 June, 1908, Lakehurst, N. J. (Wm. T. Davis); 

 author's collection. 



Microsynamma Fieber. 



M. bohemanni (Fallen). 



Phytocoris bohemanni Fallen, Hemip. Suec, 106, 1829. 



Saunders, Het. Brit. Isds., 319, 321, pi. 30, fig. 5, 1892. 



Length 3.7 mm., width 1.5 mm.; pale, hemelytra, scutellum, 

 pronotum, and femora, with fuscous shadings, a touch of reddish 

 on pronotum and head ; antennae except apex of segment i, vertex, 

 tylus, head beneath, sides of thorax, and abdomen, black; finely 

 pale yellowish pubescent. 



Occurs on Salix. 



New Jersey, New York. Vermont — 8 July, 1908, Norwich (C. W. 

 Johnson). 



Criocoris Fieber. 



C. saliens (Reuter). 



Ofv. Kongl. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Forh., xxxii, No. 9, 88, 1876. 



Male: Length 2.7 mm., width 1.4 mm.; black, shining, clothed 

 with white scale-like pubescence and intermixed with more erect 

 pubescent hairs; antennal segments i and ii strongly incrassate, 

 thickness of segment ii half as great as width of vertex. 



Female: Length 3 mm., width 1.4 mm.; black, pubescence 

 similar to that of male ; antennae yellowish brown, segment i and 



