53° CONNECTICUT GEOL. AND NAT. HIST. SURVEY. [Bull. 



clothed apically with prominent yellowish hairs ; genital claspers 

 distinctive. 



Female: Length 3.6 mm., width 1.6 mm. ; more robust than the 

 male but very similar in coloration; embolar margins more dis- 

 tinctly arcuate on apical half. 



Holotype: Male, 8 July, Staten Island, N. Y. (Wm. T. Davis) ; author's 

 collection. Allotype: 21 Aug., 1917, Wyandanch, Long Island, N. Y. (Chris 

 E. Olsen). Paratypes : New Jersey — Male, 11 July, 1908, female, 19 July, 

 female, 23 July, female, 27 July, Lakehurst (Wm. T. Davis). New York — 

 Female, 11 Aug., Pinelawn ; female, Aug., 1916, Yaphank (Wm. T. Davis). 

 Female, 21 Aug., 1917, Wyandanch, Long Island (C. E. Olsen). 



Ceratocapsus sericus Knight, new species. 



Dark brownish black, legs and antennae yellowish ; form and 

 size suggestive of pumilus but distinguished by the rather sparsely 

 set, erect long pilose hairs. 



Female: Length 4.1mm., width 1.66 mm. Head: Width 

 .77 mm., vertex .37 mm.; brownish, coarsely alutaceous, set with 

 several long erect hairs. Rostrum reaching upon hind coxae 

 (apex covered), brownish to dark brown. 



Antennae: Segment i, length .39 mm., thickness .11 mm., yellow- 

 ish; ii, 1.4 mm., slender at base and tapering to .10 mm. thick at 

 apex, yellowish; hi, .74mm., thickness .10 mm., dark reddish 

 brown, yellowish at base ; iv, .58 mm., thickness .09 mm., dark 

 reddish brown. 



Pronotum: Length .74 mm., width at base 1.34 mm.; lateral 

 margins of disk slightly sulcate ; dark brownish black, alutaceous, 

 disk sparsely set with long erect pilose hairs. Scutellum dark 

 brownish black, transversely rugulose, clothed with closely 

 appressed, silvery scale-like pubescence, and interspersed with erect 

 long pilose hairs. Sternum dark reddish brown, pleura blackish 

 and somewhat alutaceous, meta-episterna pruinose ; ostiolar 

 peritreme yellowish to brown. 



Hemelytra : Embolar margins slightly sinuate, somewhat arcuate 

 on apical half ; dark brownish black, somewhat translucent on 

 embolium; rather sparsely beset with long erect, yellowish pilose 

 hairs, clavus and basal half of corium clothed with closely 

 appressed, silvery scale-like pubescence. Membrane and veins 

 uniformly pale fuscous, a small clear spot bordering apex of 

 cuneus. 



Legs : Uniformly yellowish, coxae more brownish. Venter 

 dark brownish black, somewhat shining, genital segments clothed 

 with prominent yellowish hairs. 



Male: Length 4 mm., width 1.57 mm.; very similar to the 

 female in color. Antennae : Segment i, length .36 mm. ; ii, 

 1.28mm.. yellowish, fuscous on apical one-third; hi, .67mm., 

 fuscous, narrowly yellowish at base. Genital segment distinctive. 



Holotype: Female, 28 July, 1906, Newfoundland, N. J. (Wm. T. Davis) ; 

 author's collection. Allotype: Male, 27 June, 1921, Ann Arbor, Mich. 

 (R. F. Hussey). Paratypes: Female, taken with type. Female, 23 Aug., 

 Mosholu, N. Y. 



