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



14. Dorsum densely clothed with erect, rather bristly pubescence ; 

 apical half of membrane scarcely darker than basal half; basal 

 prong of right genital clasper taking the form of a small finger- 

 like process _ (p. 533) digitulus n. sp. 



Dorsum more sparsely clothed with semierect pubescence, nearly 

 as in pumilns; apical half of membrane distinctly infuscated; 

 basal process of right genital clasper taking the form of a thin 

 chitinous plate, notched at apex, the dorsal portion drawn out to 

 a slender point (p. 532) incisus n. sp. 



C. fasciatus (Uhler). 



Bull. U. S. Geol. Geog. Surv., iii, 421, 1877. 



Length 3.2 mm., width 1.4 mm. ; dark chestnut brown with legs 

 and antennae paler; hemelytra with a broad transverse pale 

 yellowish band just beyond tip of scutellum, scarcely paler on 

 cuneal fracture; clothed only with fine recumbent yellowish 

 pubescence. 



Occurs on hickory (Carya) . 



New York. 

 Ceratocapsus pilosus Knight, new species. 



Very similar to fasciatus in size and coloration but readily dis- 

 tinguished by the long pilose hairs on head and dorsum. 



Male: Length 3.4mm., width 1.3 mm. Head: Width .71 mm., 

 vertex .33 mm. ; yellowish brown to dark brown, clothed with fine 

 pubescence, the front beset with several prominent erect hairs. 

 Rostrum, length 1.17 mm., attaining hind margins of posterior 

 coxae, brownish. 



Antennae: Segment i, length .28 mm., thickness .10 mm., 

 yellowish; ii, 1.01 mm., tapering gradually thicker from base 

 toward apex (.10 mm. thick), yellowish brown; iii, .64mm., thick- 

 ness .09 mm., brownish; iv, 48 mm., thickness .08 ram., dark 

 brown. 



Pronotum: Length .58 mm., width at base 1.16 mm. ; calli 

 scarcely apparent, transversely rugulose near anterior margin, 

 lateral margins of disk moderately yet distinctly sulcate; thickly 

 clothed with fine yellowish pubescence, margins of disk beset with 

 prominent pilose hairs ; color dark brown, moderately shining. 

 Scutellum dark brown, transversely rugulose, finely pubescent and 

 beset with several erect pilose hairs. Sternum and episterna dark 

 brown, shining; epimera and meta-episterna pruinose; ostiolar 

 peritreme strongly protruding, white. 



Hemelytra : Embolar margins very slightly arcuate ; dark fusco- 

 brownish, a broad transverse, pale yellowish fascia just beyond 

 apex of scutellum, cuneal fracture also pale; clothed with very 

 fine, closely appressed, sericeous pubescence, intermixed with 

 longer recumbent pubescence and sparsely set erect pilose hairs, 

 pubescence taking color of surface beneath. Membrane pale, 

 apical half and central area fuscous. ^ 



Legs : Pale brownish to fusco-brownish. Venter dark brown, 



