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HEMIPTERA OF CONNECTICUT: MIRIDAE. 



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Orthotylus basicornis Knight, new species. 



Male: Length 5.6 mm., width 1.66 mm. ; very similar to viridis 

 but distinguished by the genital claspers (fig. 83), black antennal 

 segment i, green veins about areoles, and by the more prominent, 

 rather coarse pale pubescence. 



Female: Length 5.7 mm., width 1.77 mm. ; uniformly green like 

 the male but slightly more robust; antennal segment i slightly 

 paler but still distinctly blackish. 



Breeds on Salix longifolia. 



Holotype: Male, 10 Aug., 1916, Batavia, N. Y. (H. H. Knight) ; author's 

 collection. Allotype : taken with the type. Paratypes : Female, topotypic. 

 Illinois — Female, 30 June, 1906, male, 15 July (at light), Chicago; female, 

 24 July, 1908 (W. J. Gerhard). Males (4) and female, 2 July, 1917, Free- 

 port (J. R. Malloch). Michigan — Male, 21 June, 1919, Berrien County 

 (R. F. Hussey). Minnesota— Males (14) and females (7), 12 July, 1919, 

 Hennepin County (H. H. Knight), on Salix longifolia. Males (2) and 

 females (2), 6 July, male, 10 July, University Farm, St. Paul (H. H. 

 Knight), collected at light. Males and females (72), 18 July, 1922, Ramsey 

 County; males and females (98), 1 July, 1922, Winona County (H. H. 

 Knight). Quebec— Female, 19 July,- 1914, Hull (J. L. Beaulne). Male and 

 females (2), 28 July, 1915, Roberval (G. Beaulieu). 



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Fig. 83. Orthotylus basicornis 

 Knight, — male genital claspers, (a) 

 left clasper, lateral aspect, (c) 

 right clasper, lateral aspect. 

 Greatly enlarged. Drawing by Dr. 

 H. H. Knight. 



Fig. 84. Orthotylus neglectus 

 Knight,— male genital claspers, (a) 

 left clasper, lateral aspect, (c) 

 right clasper, lateral aspect. 

 Greatly enlarged. Drawing by Dr. 

 H. H. Knight. 



*0. neglectus Knight, new species. 



Male: Length 5.4 mm., width 1.75 mm.; color pattern very 

 similar to dorsalis but the genital claspers (fig. 84) indicate that it 

 is more closely related to basicornis and knighti; black, rostrum 

 except apex, slender lateral margin of pronotal disk, cuneus, 

 embolium, and outer margin of corium, greenish; legs greenish, 

 darkened at base of coxae and tips of tarsi ; membrane and veins 

 uniformly blackish. Rarely, pale forms may occur having median 

 line of pronotum and scutellum pale. 



