No. 34. 



HEMIPTERA OF CONNECTICUT: MIRIDAE. 



505 



L. robiniae (Uhler). (Plate xvi, 14.) 



Capsus robiniae Uhler, Proc. Ent: Soc. Phila., i, 24, 1861. 



Ent. News, xxix, 211, pi. 13, fig. 2, 1918. 



Male: Length 6.8 mm., width 2.1mm.; color orange-yellow, 

 dorsum infuscated similarly to confluens; distinguished from the 

 pale forms of confluens only by the genital claspers (fig. 72). 



Female: Length 6.5 mm., width 2.14 mm.; usually slightly 

 more robust than the male but very similar in coloration. 



Breeds on Robinia pseudacacia. 



Branford, 29, July, 1905 (H. W. W.) ; New Haven, 11 July, 1920 

 (B. H. W.), 3 Aug., 1905 (H. L. V.) ; Stratford, 9 July, 1920 (B. H. W.) ; 

 Westville, 27 July, 1905 (W. E. B.). 



Fig. 73. Lopidea media Say, — male 

 genital claspers, (a) left clasper, dor- 

 sal aspect, (c) right clasper, posterior 

 aspect. Greatly enlarged. Drawing 

 by Dr. H. H. Knight. 



caesar 



Fig. 74. Lopidea caesar Reuter, 

 — male genital claspers, (a) left 

 clasper, dorsal aspect, (b) right 

 clasper, internal lateral aspect, (d) 

 left clasper, posterior aspect. 

 Greatly enlarged. Drawing by Dr. 

 IF H. Knight. 



L. media (Say). 



Capsus media Say, Heter. N. Harm., 22, 1832; Compl. Writ, i, 341, 1859. 



Ent. News, xxix, 210, pi. 13, fig. 1, 1918. 



Male: Length 5.6 mm., width 1.7 mm.; orange-red to bright 

 red, scutellum and rather broadly either side of commissure, 

 darkened more or less with fuscous, the reddish always showing 

 through the infuscation ; legs fusco-brownish to blackish, femora 

 exhibiting one or two rows of darker spots both above and below ; 

 genital claspers (fig. 73), very distinctive of the species. 



Female: Length 5.7 mm., width 1.8 mm. ; usually colored very 

 similarly to the male but sometimes with the embolium and outer 

 edge of cuneus pale or white as in heidemanni. 



Breeds on Solidago rugosa, and probably other plants. 



New Haven, 9 June, 1905 (B. H. W.) ; Portland, 14 July, 1914 

 (M. P. Z.) ; Rainbow, 30 June, 1914 (B. H. W.) ; South Meriden, 6 July, 

 1914 (H. L. J.) ; Woodbury, 14 July, 1913 (W. E. B.). 



L. caesar (Reuter). 



Lomatopleura caesar Reuter, Of v. Kongl. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Forh., xxxii, 

 No. 9, 67, 1876. 



