No. 34-] HEMIPTERA OF CONNECTICUT! MIRIDAE. 533 



C. digitulus Knight, new species. 



Antennae nearly as in fuscinu's but dorsum more densely clothed 

 with erect, rather bristly pubescence; dorsum dark brownish to 

 blackish while the legs remain uniformly greenish yellow; genital 

 claspers distinctive. 



Male: Length 3.4 mm., width x. 6 mm. Head: Width .70 mm., 

 vertex .30 mm.; brownish black. Rostrum, length 1.14 mm., 

 scarcely attaining hind margins of middle coxae, yellowish, apex 

 and basal segment darker. 



Antennae: Segment i, length .27mm., yellowish; ii, 1 mm., 

 yellowish, thickened on apical half but not quite attaining thick- 

 ness of segment i, clothed with prominent pale- pubescence ; iii, 

 .48 mm., scarcely equal to thickness of segment ii, yellowish, apical 

 half more brownish ; iv, .36 mm., brownish. 



Pronotum: Length .67 mm., width at base 1.26 mm.; dark 

 brownish, more nearly black on calli. Scutellum brownish black ; 

 erect yellowish pubescence even more prominent than on pronotum. 

 Sternum and pleura brownish black; ostiolar peritreme yellowish 

 to brownish. 



Hemelytra : Embolar margins distinctly arcuate ; dark brownish 

 with a reddish tinge, embolium more yellowish translucent ; cuneus 

 reddish brown ; rather densely clothed with erect, somewhat bristly 

 pubescence, and intermixed with closely appressed, silvery tomen- 

 tose, scale-like pubescence. Membrane rather uniformly fusco- 

 brownish, scarcely paler bordering cuneus. 



Legs : Uniformly greenish or yellowish. Venter brownish 

 black, shining, yellowish pubescent ; genital claspers distinctive, 

 basal prong of right clasper taking the form of a small finger-like 

 process. 



Female: Length 3.5 mm., width 1.7 mm.; very similar to the 

 male in structure and coloration, but the embolar margins slightly 

 more arcuate. Head : Width .73 mm., vertex .34 mm. Antennae : 

 Segment i, length .28 mm.; ii, 1.11 mm., slender, gradually 

 thickened on apical half but not attaining thickness of segment i ; 

 iii, .51 mm., thickness nearly equal to apex of segment ii, yellowish 

 to brownish; iv, .37 mm., brownish. 



Holotype: Male, 29 July, 1916, Batavia, New York (H. H. Knight); 

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

 and female, taken with types. New York — Male and female, 13 Aug., 1916, 

 Cattaraugus County, alt. 2300 ft. (H. H. Knight). Male, 21 Aug., 1917, 

 Wyandanch (C. E. Olsen). Female, 26 July, 1908, Yaphank (Wm. T. 

 Davis). Male, 1-7 Aug., 191 7, Wanakena (C. J. Drake). 



C. drakei Knight, new species. 



Elongate, more slender than pumilus, most closely related to 

 nigrocephalus and setosus; the female probably brachypterous as 

 in setosus. 



Male: Length 4.5 mm., width .68mm. Head: Width .71 mm., 

 vertex .27 mm. ; reddish, darker on vertex. Rostrum, length 



