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



Kent, 31 Aug., 1904 (W. E. B.) ; New Haven, 16 Oct., 1903 (H. L. V.) ; 

 Southport, 9, Sept., 1904 (W. E. B.). 



H. intermedius Uhler. 



Proc. U. S. Natl. Mus., xxvii, 360, 1904. 



Length 3.5mm., width 2mm.; black, moderately shining; 

 clothed with fine pale pubescence, the dorsum with deciduous 

 tomentose patches which give silvery or greenish reflections ; 

 antennae pale, apex of segment ii and most of iii and iv, fuscous ; 

 juga, tibiae, tarsi except apex, and apices of femora, pale. 



Food plant : Clematis virginiana. 



Branford, 28 July, 1905 (H. L. V.). 



Strongylocoris Blanchard. 



S. stygica (Say). 



Compl. Writ., i, 344, 1859. 



Length 4.2-4.5 mm., width 1.9-2.3 mm. ; black, moderately shin- 

 ing ; finely but densely punctured and somewhat rugulose ; 

 antennal segment ii pale on middle ; apices of femora, tibiae, tarsi 

 except the last segment, base of trochanters, pale yellowish ; hind 

 tibiae usually nearly black. 



Food plant: Solidago spp. 



Greens' Farms, 24 June, 1904 (W. E. B.) ; Killingworth, 27 June, 1920 

 (W. E. B.) ; New Haven, 26 June, 1905 (B. H. W.) ; West Haven, 27 

 June, 1905 (H. L. V.). 



Orthocephalus Fieber. 



O. mutabilis (Fallen). 



Capsus mutabilis Fallen, Monog. Cim. Suec., 98, 1807. 



Reuter, Hem. Gymn. Eur., iv, 48, 165, 166, pi. 4, figs. 2, 3, 1891. 



Male: Length 4.8 mm., width 1.7 mm. ; black, clothed with long 

 black hairs, especially on the antennae, head, sides of pronotum 

 and hemelytra ; in addition to black hairs the dorsum bears rather 

 sparse, short pale tomentose pubescence ; inner half of corium and 

 slender margin of clavus bordering claval suture, pale. 



Female (macropterous) : Length 4.9 mm., width 2.2 mm.; more 

 robust than the male, very similar in color but narrowly pale along 

 claval suture. This form of the female is comparatively scarce. 



Female (brachypterous) : Length 4.1mm., width 2.3 mm.; 

 broader and more ovate than the macropterous form ; hemelytra 

 not attaining apex of abdomen, membrane absent, uniformly black, 

 claval suture scarcely developed. This is the common female 

 form. 



Food plant: Chrysanthemum leucanthemum Linnaeus. 



Maine, New York. 



