No. 34-] HEMIPTERA OF CONNECTICUT I MIRIDAE. 46 1 



base of ii black, segment ii slender, scarcely more than half as 

 thick as segment i. 



New Jersey, New York. 



Atractotomus Fieber. 



A. magnicornis (Fallen). 



Capsus magnicornis Fallen, Mon. Cim. Suec., 99, 1807. 

 Reuter, Hem. Gymn. Eur., i, 100, pi. vi, fig. 2, 1878. 



Black, hemelytra tinged with f usco-reddish ; clothed above with 

 golden yellow, scale-like pubescence, more silvery on pleura, and 

 intermixed with erect dusky pubescent hairs ; length of antennal 

 segment ii distinctly greater than width of head. 



Female: Length 3.1mm., width 1.44mm. Head: Width 

 .75 mm., vertex .35 mm. Rostrum, length 1.28 mm., attaining 

 hind margins of posterior coxae. Antennae: Segment i, length 

 .19mm.; ii, .89mm., thickness .12mm., fusiform, black; iii, 

 .50 mm., slender, pale; iv, .39 mm., pale to dusky. Pronotum: 

 Length .54 mm., width at base 1.08 mm. 



Hemelytra : Embolar margins moderately arcuate ; f usco- 

 blackish, very slightly tinged with reddish, slightly translucent. 

 Membrane pale fuscous, scarcely paler bordering apex of cuneus, 

 veins pale to yellowish. Legs : Fusco-brownish, tibiae dark f usco- 

 brownish but with darker spots at base of spines. 



Collected on Pinus sylvestris at Ithaca, N. Y. ; specimens com- 

 pared with European examples of magnicornis Fallen and found 

 identical. 

 A. magnicornis var. buenoi Knight new variety. 



Very similar to magnicornis but smaller and more ovate ; length 

 of antennal segment ii just equal to width of head. 



Female: Length 2.5mm., width 1.28mm. Head: Width 

 .72 mm., vertex .33 mm. Rostrum, length 1.16 mm., extending 

 slightly beyond hind coxae. 



Antennae: Segment i, length .18 mm. ; ii, .72 mm., thickness 

 .11 mm., fusiform, dark reddish brown to black; iii, .44mm., pale 

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



Pronotum : Length .44 mm., width at base .97 mm. ; thickly 

 clothed with recumbent, yellowish sericeous pubescence, and inter- 

 mixed with more erect dusky pubescent hairs ; sericeous pubescence 

 paler on pleura. 



Hemelytra: Embolar margins slightly arcuate; fusco-blackish, 

 not tinged with reddish as in magnicornis ; pubescence a continua- 

 tion of that on pronotum. Membrane uniformly fuscous, scarcely 

 paler bordering cuneus, veins slightly testaceous. 



Legs : Blackish, tibiae slightly paler, more dusky testaceous but 

 with dark spots at base of spines. Venter uniformly blackish, 

 dusky pubescent, sides with some pale sericeous, closely appressed 

 pubescence. 



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