No. 34-] HEMIPTERA OF CONNECTICUT! MIRIDAE. 541 



Pronoturn: Length .94 mm., width at base 1.53 mm., anterior 

 angles .83 mm. ; anterior half of disk sparsely clothed with silvery, 

 deciduous, pubescent hairs similar to those on front of head. 

 Scutellum with apical half and slender lateral margins flat, abruptly 

 convex on basal half but flattened basally, flattened apical half 

 more or less covered with silvery, scale-like pubescence. 



Hemelytra: Dark fusco-brownish, opaque anterior to posterior 

 silvery line, basal half with a silvery sheen apparent in certain 

 lights ; beset with erect, short black bristles ; posterior silvery line 

 nearly straight, slender, behind this distinctly polished, apex of 

 clavus included. Membrane uniformly darkened with fuscous, an 

 opaque black cloud bordering apex of larger areole. 



Legs : Uniformly brownish black, a pale spot on anterior aspect 

 of front coxae near base ; hind tibiae strongly flattened and dis- 

 tinctly curved. Venter with a patch of silvery, scale-like 

 pubescence laterally on third segment. 



Female: Length 5.3 mm., width 1.8 mm.; very similar to the 

 male but antennal segment iii perceptibly thicker (.10 mm. thick), 

 nearly equal to thickness of segment i. 



Breeds on Pinus resinosa. 



Holotype: Male, 11 July, 1920, Taghanic, N. Y. (H. H. Knight); 

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

 and females (16), taken with the types on Pinus resinosa. Massachusetts 

 — Female, 15 July-6 Aug., 1918, Woods Hole (Chris E. Olsen). 



P. uhleri Knight, new species. 



Closely related to the preceding species but differs in color and 

 thickness of antennal segment iii, in having patches of silvery 

 scale-like pubescence on sides of fourth and fifth abdominal seg- 

 ments, and by the fact that the hind tibiae are not so distinctly 

 compressed. 



Male: Length 5 mm. Head: Width 1.14mm., vertex .53 mm., 

 from tip of tylus to vertex .94 mm. ; front without silvery scale- 

 like pubescence. Rostrum, length 1.8 mm., nearly attaining hind 

 margins of middle coxae. 



Antennae: Segment i, length .38mm., thickness .10 mm. ; ii, 

 1.86 mm., gradually thickened apically (.14 mm. thick); iii, 

 .66 mm., thickness .06 mm., pale, apical half infuscated, sometimes 

 the whole segment tinged with pink ; iv, .61 mm., pale, apex dusky. 



Pronoturn : Length .83 mm., width at base 1.44 mm. ; uniformly 

 black, beset with black pubescence but devoid of silvery scale-like 

 hairs. Scutellum nearly as in vanduzeei but with sides and base 

 thickly covered with silvery, scale-like pubescence. 



Hemelytra : Very similar to vanduzeei but the posterior silvery 

 line distinctly broader. 



Legs : Hind tibiae slightly compressed but not distinctly flattened 

 as in vanduzeei. 



Venter : With a distinctive patch of silvery, scale-like pubescence 

 on the sides, extending obliquely across segments 3-6 inclusive. 



