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



Female: Similar to the male but slightly more robust. 

 Food plant: Cheno podium album. 



New Canaan, 29 Sept., 1909 (W. E. B.) ; New Haven, 26 July, 1905 

 (H. L. V.), 14 June, 1930 (W. E. B.) ; South Meriden, 16 July, 1915 

 (H. L. J.) ; Stratford, 9 July, 1920 (B. H. W.) ; Stratford, 21 July, 1908 

 (W. E. B.). 

 O. concolor (Kirschbaum). 



Capsus concolor Kirschbaum, Jhrb. Ver. Nat. Herz. Nassau, x, 249, 315, 

 i855. 



Reuter, Hem. Gymn. Eur., iii, 366, 553, 1883. 



Male: Length 4.6 mm., width 1.5 mm.; deep green, head and 

 femora tinged with yellowish, membrane uniformly infuscated; 

 antennal segment ii strongly yellowish, infuscated apically, seg- 

 ments iii and iv blackish; clothed with erect black hairs, longest 

 on head and anteriorly on pronotum, but pronotum, scutellum, and 

 basally on hemelytra also clothed with closely appressed, silvery 

 scale-like hairs. 



Female: Length 4.2 mm., width 1.6 mm. ; very similar to the 

 male but more robust. 



Massachusetts. 



ch I ononis 



Fig. 81. Orthotylus concolor Fig. 82. Orthotylus chlorionis 



Kirschbaum, — male genital claspers, Say, — male genital claspers, (a) 



(a) left clasper, lateral aspect, (b) left clasper, lateral aspect, (c) 



left clasper, dorsal aspect, (c) right clasper, lateral aspect, 



right clasper, lateral aspect. Greatly enlarged. Drawing by Dr. 



Greatly enlarged. Drawing by H. H. Knight. 

 Dr. H. H. Knight. 



O. chlorionis (Say). 



Capsus chlorionis Say, Heter, N. Harm., 25, 1832; Compl. Writ, i, 346, 

 1859. 



Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., ser. 4, vi, 98, 1916. 



Male: Length 3.8 mm., width .61 mm. ; clear green, clothed 

 with minute fuscous hairs, apparently destitute of pale scale-like 

 hairs ; membrane pale, veins only green ; abdomen reaching to 

 near apex of cuneus. 



Female: Similar to the male but slightly more robust. 



Occurs on honey locust (Gleditsia tricanthos). 



New Haven, 22 June, 1905 (H. L. V.) ; Noroton, 21 June, 1913 (A. H. 

 Renshaw). 



