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shining, a pruinose area on middle of ventral surface ; clothed with 

 prominent yellowish pubescent hairs; genital claspers distinctive. 

 Female: Length 3.6 mm., width 1.6 mm. ; colored very simi- 

 larly to the male but in form more robust, embolar margins more 

 strongly arcuate on apical half. 



Holotype: Male, 28 July, 1916, Pigeon Cove, Mass. (Chris E. Olsen) ; 

 author's collection. Allotype : same data as the type. Paratypes : Massa- 

 chusetts— Males (3), taken with the types. Minnesota— Males (3) and 

 females (2), 20 July, 1920, Gray Cloud Island, collected on Ostrya virgin- 

 iana; males (2), 8 July, males and females (12), 5 Aug., males and females 

 (18), 11 Aug., 1920, University Farm, St. Paul, collected on Quercus 

 macrocarpa; male and female, 9 July, males and females (10), 24 July, 

 Minnehaha Creek, Hennepin County (H. H. Knight). 



C. lutescens Renter. 



Ofv. Kongl. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Forh., xxxii, No. 9, 87, 1876. 



Length 4.5 mm., width 1.9 mm. ; uniformly yellowish, antennae, 

 head chiefly, and two vittae on anterior angles of propleura, red ; 

 sparsely clothed with yellowish pubescence. 



Long Island, N. Y. 

 C. modestus Uhler. 



Ent. Amer., iii, 69, 1887. 



Length 4.4 mm., width 1.8 mm. ; dark chestnut brown with 

 yellowish, sometimes dark fuscous brown; larger than pumilus 

 and without distinct punctures on dorsum ; surface very finely 

 alutaceous ; scutellum, clavus, and inner apical margin of corium, 

 beset with a few long erect hairs, but devoid of closely appressed 

 sericeous pubescence. 



Occurs on basswood ( Tilia ) , and grapevine ( Vitis sp. ) . 



East River, 30 July, 1910, 5 Aug., 1908 (C. R. E.) ; New Haven, 8 

 July, 1909 (B. H. W.). 



C. luteus Knight, new species. 



Suggestive of lutescens but differs in structure of antennae and . 

 pubescence, likewise in color of antennae and head. 



Female: Length 4 mm., width 1.64 mm. Head : Width .87 mm., 

 vertex .34 mm. ; yellowish, eyes brownish black. Rostrum, 

 length 1.32 mm., nearly attaining hind margins of middle coxae, 

 yellowish, darker apically. 



Antennae: Segment i, length .31 mm.; ii, 1.14mm., slender at 

 base, becoming gradually thicker apically but not attaining thick- 

 ness of segment i, yellowish, somewhat dusky near apex; iii, 

 .51 mm., thickness .08 mm., just equal to apex of segment ii, dusky 

 yellow ; iv, .43 mm., equal in thickness to segment iii, dusky brown. 



Pronotum: Length .73 mm., width at base 1.34 mm.; lateral 

 margins nearly straight ; impunctate, somewhat alutaceous, yellow- 

 ish, clothed with very fine recumbent yellowish pubescence. 

 Scutellum transversely rugulose, clothed with closely appressea, 

 silvery scale-like pubescence, and intermixed with a few very short 

 simple pubescent hairs. Sternum and pleura yellowish, ostiolar 

 peritreme pale yellowish. 



