No. 34-] HEMIPTERA OF CONNECTICUT: MIRIDAE. 483 



minutely, sparsely pubescent. Sternum dark fuscous, paler on 

 median line and at sides ; ostiolar peritreme pale, invaded with 

 fuscous above. 



Hemelytra : Width 2.5 mm. ; glabrous, pale translucent and 

 marked with fuscous but without large spots on basal half as on 

 venatorius; clavus black each side of commissure, slender dark 

 marks bordering claval vein; corium with punctures, radius, and 

 large spot on inner apical angle, dark fuscous to black ; embolium 

 scarcely darkened at apex, the extreme outer edge blackish. 

 Cuneus pale translucent, inner apical margin blackish. Membrane 

 pale, fumate within areoles, veins slightly darker, a fuscous mark 

 bordering apical margin of larger areole ; also a pale fuscous 

 cloud on apical half each side beyond the areoles. 



Legs : Pale and marked with blackish ; femora with apical half 

 marked and spotted with blackish, an irregular pale but spotted 

 subapical annulus ; tibiae with four paler bands but more or less 

 interrupted with dark spots, pubescence short, not attaining length 

 of true spines. 



Venter: Pale greenish and maculated with reddish, ventral 

 surface of genital segment blackish, an impressed dark spot 

 beneath each spiracle; genital claspers distinctive of the species. 



Female: Length 7.4 mm., width 2.77 mm. ; very similar to male 

 in coloration but differs in the pilose character of antennae. 

 Head: Width 1.08 mm., vertex .39 mm., height of eye .69 mm., 

 eyes less prominent than in male. Antennae : Segment i, length 

 .91 mm., beset with several erect hairs, pale and irregularly spotted 

 with black; ii, 2.5 mm., ground color pale but closely spotted and 

 shaded with brownish black, extreme apex pale or reddish, beset 

 with erect pale pilose hair, length of hairs exceeding twice thickness 

 of segment; iii, .97mm., blackish, paler apically, basal half beset 

 with pilose hairs ; iv, .83 mm., blackish. 



The writer took all his specimens on willow (Salix) where both 

 nymphs and adults were found on the bark of the trees, indicating 

 that the species is predaceous. 



Holotype : Male, 18 June, 1921, Phalen Park, Ramsey County, Minn. 

 (H. H. Knight); Minn. Univ. collection. Allotype: 11 Aug., 1920, St. 

 Anthony Park, Minn. (H. H. Knight). Paratypes : Males (3), taken with 

 the holotype. Minnesota — Male, 20 June, 1921, New Ulm (H. H. Knight). 

 Mississippi — Male, 21 Apr., 1915, Agricultural College (H. F. Wallace). 

 South Dakota — Male, 30 June, 1921, Brookings (H. C. Severin). 



E. venatorius Van Duzee. 



Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci., x, 479, 1912. 



Male: Length 7.4 mm., width 2.5 mm.; pale and mottled with 

 fuscous and black ; antennae irregularly annulated and mottled 

 with black, more distinctly so than in grossus; dorsum rather 

 sparsely beset with pale erect pilose hairs ; hind tibiae with long 

 pilose hairs on basal half, distinctly longer than true spines. 



