No. 34-] HEMIPTERA OF CONNECTICUT: MIRIDAE. 539 



P. furvus Knight, new species. 



Female: Length 4.1mm., width 1.61 mm. Head: Width 

 1.12 mm., vertex .61 mm., basal margin to tip of tylus .89 mm.; 

 dark reddish brown to piceous, smooth, shining; gula beset with 

 erect, bristly pubescent hairs. Rostrum, length 1.4 mm., scarcely 

 attaining hind margin of sternum, rufo-piceous. 



Antennae: Segment i, length .25mm.; ii, 1.03mm., thickness 

 (.08 mm.) equal to segment i, more slender on basal one-fourth, 

 minutely pubescent, dark reddish brown, slightly paler at base ; iii, 

 .41 mm., slender, pale, apical half dark brown; iv (missing). 



Pronotum : Length .83 mm., width at base 1.33 mm., anterior 

 angles .77 mm. ; lateral margins sulcate, flaring sharply to basal 

 angles, a distinct bristle just before each anterior angle ; uniformly 

 dark brownish black; xyphus convex, lateral margins scarcely 

 carinated, reddish brown. Scutellum strongly convex, almost 

 taking the form of a truncate pyramid but rounded above, apex 

 flattened, basal angles and apex with a tuft of silvery scale-like 

 pubescence; mesonotum broadly exposed, flattened above but 

 abruptly declivitous at each side. Sternum brownish black, 

 polished ; epimera with posterior margin covered by silvery scale- 

 like pubescence; ostiolar peritreme pale to dusky, polished just 

 above, a tuft of scale-like pubescence at posterior margin of meta- 

 episternum just beneath that on embolium. 



Hemelytra: Embolar margins sulcate-sinuate, greatest width 

 (1.61 mm.) just before cuneal fracture; from anterior to posterior 

 silvery line, opaque, dark brownish black ; behind posterior 

 silvery line, brownish black to piceous, polished, apex of clavus 

 and all of the cuneus included ; posterior silvery line sinuate, 

 perhaps interrupted (mutilated?), nearly or quite connecting with 

 that of clavus which is directed slightly distad ; basal silvery line 

 similar to that of amoenus; very finely pubescent, longer on apical 

 margin bordering membrane. Cuneus sharply deflected, piceous 

 and polished similar to apex of corium, a silvery scale-like spot 

 near inner basal angle. Membrane pale fuscous, a large opaque 

 blackish cloud involving apical half of areoles and middle of 

 membrane. 



Legs : Dark brownish black, tibiae more yellowish brown, tro- 

 chanters except on front legs, two basal segments of tarsi, and 

 apical half of hind coxae, pale. 



Venter : Dark brown to piceous, polished, finely pubescent, 

 prominent bristly hairs bordering ovipositor. 



Holotype: Female, 30 June, Lakehurst, N. J. (Wm. T. Davis) ; author's 

 collection. 



Pilophorus depictus Knight, new species. 



Closely related to furvus but smaller, length of antennal segment 

 ii scarcely equaling width of head ; hemelytra, anterior to posterior 

 silvery line, cinnamon fulvous as in amoenus. 



