544 CONNECTICUT GEOL. AND NAT. HIST. SURVEY. [Bull. 



P. perplexus Douglas and Scott. 



Pilophorus perplexus Douglas and Scott, Ent. Mon. Mag., xii, 101, 1875. 

 Saunders, Hem. Het. Brit. Isds., 265, 1892. 



Male: Length 4 mm., width 1.38 mm.; hemelytra nearly uni- 

 formly brown, clothed with minute golden pubescence ; very similar 

 to brunneus but distinguished by the continuous, transverse pos- 

 terior silvery band; scutellum, thorax, and head, dark brown to 

 blackish. Antennae : Segment i, length .30 mm., brownish ; ii, 

 1.44 mm., scarcely thicker (.09 mm. thick) than segment i, slightly 

 more slender on basal one-third, brownish, dark brown on apical 

 half, minutely pubescent ; iii, .58 mm., pale, apical half infuscated ; 

 iv, .53 mm., infuscated, pale at base. 



Female: Length 4 mm., width 1.5 mm. ; very similar to the male 

 but slightly more robust. Antennae : Segment i, length .30 mm. ; 

 ii, 1.47 mm., greatest thickness ,11 mm., gradually thickened from 

 base toward apex; iii, 1.11mm. ; iv, .50 mm.; colored similarly 

 to the male. 



In New York the writer collected specimens on goldenrod 

 (Solidago). Specimens upon which this record is based have been 

 compared with European material of perplexus D. & S. and found 

 to be identical. The writer also has at hand European specimens 

 of cinnamopterus Kirsch but as yet no American representatives 

 have been examined. 



Storrs, 5 Aug., 1920 (M. P. Z.). 

 P. brunneus Poppius. 



Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg., lviii, 244, 1914. 



Male: Length 4 mm., width 1.37 mm., from tip of tylus to basal 

 margin of pronotum 1.38 mm. ; very similar to walshi but slightly 

 larger and darker colored, more nearly the size and color of 

 perplexus but the silvery line on clavus dislocated and set slightly 

 forward. Antennae : Segment i, length .28 mm., fusco-brownish ; 

 ii, 1.47mm., dark brownish, more nearly black at apex; iii, 

 .61 mm., fuscous, basal one- fourth pale; iv, .61 mm., fuscous, 

 narrowly pale at base. 



Female: Length 3.6 mm., width 1.36 mm., from tip of tylus to 

 basal margin of pronotum 1.33 mm.; more robust than the male 

 but similar in coloration; antennal segment ii, length 1.33mm., 

 slightly thicker toward apex but scarcely exceeding thickness of 

 segment i. 



Occurs on Salix. 



New York. 

 P. clavatus (Linnaeus). 



Cimex clavatus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., Edn. 12, i, 729, 1767. 



Reuter, Hem. Gymn., Eur., iv, 114, tab. 4, fig. 3, 1891. 



Male: Length 4.6 mm., width 1.53 mm., from tip of tylus to 

 basal margin of pronotum 1.5 mm.; brownish black, hemelytra 



