No. 34-] HEMIPTERA OF CONNECTICUT: MIRIDAE. 499 



Female: Length (brachypterous) 1.6 mm., width .9 mm. ; oval, 

 membrane scarcely extending beyond apex of cuneus and just 

 attaining tip of abdomen ; slightly paler but otherwise marked like 

 the typical macropterous form. 



Occurs on Vaccinium. 



Massachusetts, Long Island, New York. 

 P. juniperi (Heidemann). 



Jour. N. Y. Ent. Soc., xiii, 49, 1905. 



Male: Length 3 mm., width 1 mm. ; pale yellowish, cuneus, 

 apical one-third of corium, and base of head, tinged with reddish, 

 color sometimes separating into specks ; femora sprinkled with 

 reddish; scutellum and base of clavus darkened with fuscous; 

 head shorter and more nearly vertical than in vaccini; clothed with 

 fine erect, golden pubescence, intermixed with more closely 

 appressed scale-like golden hairs, the latter more silvery on scutel- 

 lum and transversely across corium at tip of clavus, becoming 

 black across apex of corium and forming a spot on inner edge of 

 cuneus at middle and at base ; membrane uniformly inf uscated and 

 iridescent. 



Female: Very similar to the male in form and color. 



Food plant: Red cedar (Juniperus virginiana). 



Massachusetts, New York. 



Halticus Hahn. 



H. apterus (Linnaeus). 



Cicada aptera Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., Edn. 10, i, 438, 1758. 



Reuter, Hem. Gymn. Eur., iv, 18, 161, pi. 1, fig. 5, 1891. 



Length 2.7 mm., width 1.5 mm. ; black, strongly shining, devoid 

 of scale-like pubescence ; usually brachypterous ; antennae pale, 

 segments iii and iv lightly infuscated ; first two segments of tarsi, 

 tibiae, and apices of femora, pale. 



Maine, Canada. 

 H. citri Ashmead. 



Ent. Amer., iii, 155, 1887. 



Male: Length 1.9-2 mm., width .7 mm. ; black, slightly shining; 

 antennae fuscous, middle of segment ii and base of iii, pale ; 

 usually antennal segment i pale also, dark in the female ; tarsi and 

 tibiae except base of posterior pair, and apices of femora, pale; 

 clothed with very fine pale pubescence, and with deciduous 

 tomentose patches which give silvery and greenish reflections. 



Female: Length (brachypterous) 1.5 mm., width 1 mm. ; length 

 (macropterous) 1.9 mm.; usually brachypterous but frequently 

 winged like the male. 



Food plants: White clover, beans, Plantago lance olata; also 

 recorded on many other plants. 



