506 



CONNECTICUT GEOL. AND NAT. HIST. SURVEY. 



[Bull. 



Ent. News, xxix, 212, pi. 13, fig. 4, 1918. 



Male: Length 7 mm., width 2.2 mm.; color deep carmine red, 

 darkened with fuscous on scutellum and more or less broadly each 

 side of commissure; front of head, base of vertex, antennae, and 

 membrane dark fuscous to black; legs and venter dark fuscous 

 through which a tinge of red is apparent; genital claspers (fig. 

 74), distinctive of the species. Antennae: Segment i, length 

 .80 mm., width .10 mm. ; ii, 2.8 mm., thickness .09 mm., tapering 

 on apical half to more slender at apex, black and rather thickly 

 clothed with recumbent coarse hairs as in segment i ; iii, 1.66 mm., 

 slender, finely pubescent; iv, .64mm., more slender than iii. 



Female: Length 7.9 mm., width 2.66 mm.; color and structure 

 of antennae similar to that of the male. 



Guilford, 13 July, 1920 (B. H. W.) ; Portland, 14 July, 1914 (M. P. Z.), 

 10 Aug, 1913 (B. H. W.). 



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Fig. 75. Lopidea reuteri Knight, — male genital claspers, (a) left clasper, 

 dorsal aspect, (b) right clasper, dorsal aspect, (f) right clasper, lateral 

 aspect. Greatly enlarged. Drawing by Dr. H. H. Knight. 



L. reuteri Knight. 



Ent. News, xxviii, 459, fig. 5, 1917. 



Male: Length 7.1 mm., width 2.54 mm.; color a vivid carmine 

 red, fuscous on calli, scutellum, and bordering the commissure ; 

 very similar to caesar but not so broadly fuscous on corium and 

 cuneus ; genital claspers (fig. 75) distinctive of the species. 

 Antennae: Segment i, length .65mm., thickness .17mm.; ii, 

 2.42 mm., greatest thickness .14 mm., tapering from middle to 

 more slender at apex ; iii, 1.6 mm., linear and slender ; iv, .60 mm. ; 

 black, first two segments clothed with prominent coarse hairs ; 

 almost identical in structure to caesar. 



Female: Length 6.9 mm., width 2.5 mm.; structurally and in 

 color very similar to the male ; very similar to the female of 

 caesar which species rarely has the calli darkened and usually has 

 less fuscous shading on the scutellum. 



Breeds on witchhazel (Hamamelis virginiana) . 



Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania. 



