No. 34-] HEMIPTERA OF CONNECTICUT: MIRIDAE. 519 



O. ornatus Van Duzee. 



Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., ser. 4, vi, 122, 1916. 



Male: Length 5.6 mm., width 1.78 mm. ; chiefly black or brown- 

 ish black, tip of scutellum, basal angles of corium, pale to pale 

 translucent; membrane fuscous, veins and spot on middle of 

 apical half, slightly paler; legs pale to dusky, femora brownish 

 black, the hind pair darker; genital claspers (fig. 90) distinctive 

 of the species. 



Female: Length 6 mm., width 2.05 mm.; chiefly pale, tinged 

 with reddish and varied with fuscous ; base of tylus and spot just 

 above, sometimes an arc on front, basal margin of calli, pronotal 

 disk except median line and lateral margins, basal angles of scutel- 

 lum, apical half of corium, and clavus somewhat, fuscous to black- 

 ish ; antennae pale f usco-brownish, segment i darker ; hind femora 

 brownish black. Sometimes this sex may be more broadly blackish 

 and the paler parts not at all tinged with reddish. 



Breeds on Salix fragilis. 



Cornwall, 5 June, 1921 (B. H. W.) ; Guilford, 13 July, 1920 (B. H. W.). 

 O. viridis Van Duzee. 



Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., ser. 4, vi, 103, 1916. 



Male: Length 4.6 mm., width 1.47 mm.; pale green, with head, 

 pronotum anteriorly, embolium, and femora, yellowish, base of 

 tylus with small fuscous spot; antennae yellowish, segments i, 

 iii, and iv, darkened with pale fuscous ; membrane pale to f umate 

 basally; genital claspers (fig. 91) distinctive of the species. 



Female: Length 5 mm., width 1.58 mm.; very similar to the 

 male in coloration but in form more robust. 



Breeds on Salix. 



Guilford, 13 July, 1920 (B. H. W.). 

 Q. modestus Van Duzee. 



Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., ser. 4, vi, 109, 1916. 



Male: Length 4.4 mm., width 1.44 mm.; fuscous to blackish, 

 head and paler parts of hemelytra tinged with yellowish; embolium 

 pale, base of corium and continuing rather broadly along radius, 

 and cuneus, greenish yellow ; membrane uniformly infuscated, the 

 veins scarcely paler; antennae f usco-brownish, segment i darker; 

 genital claspers (fig. 92) distinctive of the species. 



Female: Length 4.5 mm., width 1.47 mm.; pale greenish, legs 

 darker, dorsum marked with blackish; antennae, spot at base of 

 tylus, transversely across base of calli, basal margin of pronotal 

 disk but not attaining lateral angles, basal angles, and spot on 

 median line at base of scutellum, clavus except basal angles, and 

 spot on inner apical angle of corium, fuscous to black; membrane 

 uniformly dark fuscous. 



Breeds on Salix fragilis and 5\ nigra. 



New York. 



