No. 34-] HEMIPTERA OF CONNECTICUT: MIRIDAE. 543 



P. laetus Van Duzee. 



Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., ser. 4, viii, 294, 1918. 



Male: Length 3.7 mm., width 1.27 mm.; coloration similar to 

 that of amoenus; posterior silvery line interrupted on corium. 

 Antennae: Segment i, length .28mm., brownish; ii, 1.39mm., 

 slender, pale, abruptly clavate (.13 mm. thick) and black on apical 

 one-third; hi, .53mm., pale, dusky at apex; iv, .55mm., dusky. 



Female: Length 3.7 mm., width 1.33 mm.; very similar to the 

 male in structure and coloration, but clavate portion of antennal 

 segment ii very slightly thicker (.15 mm. thick). 



Breeds on Pinus virginiana. 



Allotype: Male, 10 Aug., Washington, D. C. (O. Heidemann) ; author's 

 collection. 



Pilophorus jumped Knight, new species. 



Very similar to laetus but darker in coloration ; differs in the 

 shorter and more gradually thickened antennal segment ii, and by 

 the narrower head. 



Male: Length 3.7mm., width 1.3mm. Head: Width .91 mm., 

 vertex .49 mm. ; dark brownish black, more brownish below. 

 Rostrum, length 1.06 mm., attaining middle of intermediate coxae, 

 brownish black. 



Antennae: Segment i, length .28mm., brownish; ii, 1.11 mm., 

 gradually thickened from middle toward apex (.10 mm. thick), 

 in length not equal to distance between tip of tylus and base of 

 pronotum, brown, apical half black; iii, .44mm., pale, infuscated 

 apically ; iv, .42 mm., infuscated. 



Pronotum: Length .71mm., width at base 1.11mm. ; dark 

 brownish black, sides more gradually sulcate than in laetus. 

 Scutellum nearly as in laetus but not so strongly convex on disk. 



Hemelytra : Nearly as in laetus but darker in color. Membrane 

 blackish on basal half, pale fuscous on apical half and bordering 

 cuneus. 



Legs : Dark f usco-brownish, distinctly darker than in laetus. 



Venter: Dark brownish black, each side with a patch of silvery 

 hairs on segments 3-5 inclusive. 



Female: Very similar to the male in structure and coloration. 



Breeds on Juniperus virginiana. 



Holotype: Male, 18 July, 1915, White Plains, N. Y. (J. R. T. Bueno) ; 

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

 land — Female, June, 1913, Forest Glen; male, 30 June, 1905, Plummers 

 Island (O. Heidemann). Massachusetts — Male, 15 July-6 Aug., 1918, 

 Woods Hole (C. E. Olsen). Minnesota — Males and females (17) 20 

 July, 1920, Gray Cloud Island, Ramsey County (H. H. Knight), collected 

 on Juniperus virginiana. New Jersey — Female, 25 July, 191 1, Bear Swamp, 

 Ramapo Mts. (Wm. T. Davis). New York— Males (2), 18 July, male, 24 

 July, male and female, 27 July, White Plains (J. R. T. Bueno), collected 

 on Juniperus virginiana. 



