No. 34-] HEMIPTERA OF CONNECTICUT: MIRIDAE. 549 



T. uhleri Reuter. 



Ofv. Kongl. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Forh.,.xxxii, No. 9, 60, 1876. 

 Length 6.2-7.5 mm., width 1.5 mm.; species well described in 

 the key. 



Stratford, 29 June, 1908 (W. E. B.) ; 9 July, 1920 (B. H. W.) ; Wood- 

 mont, 9 July, 1904 (P. L. B.). 



T. ruficornis ( Geoff roy). 



Cimex ruficornis Geoffroy in Fourcroy, Ent. Paris., 209, 1785. 

 Douglas and Scott, Brit. Hemip., 290, 1865. 



Length 5.5-6 mm., width 1.2 mm.; usually distinguished by 

 having the antennae reddish from base to apex ; pronotum usually 

 with four fuscous stripes with a slender pale line between the two 

 middle stripes. 



Food plants : Cultivated oats and closely related wild grasses. 



Branford, 21 June, 1904 (H. L. V.) ; Colebrook, 20 July, 1905 (W. E. B.). 



Mesomiris Reuter. 



M. curtulus Reuter. 



Acta Soc. Sci. Fenn., xxxvi, No. 2, 4, 1909. 



Length 5-5.5 mm., width 1.5 mm.; yellowish brown to dark 

 brown; dorsum rather sparsely punctured with deep coarse punc- 

 tures ; antennae with very short fine pubescence ; antennae, legs, 

 and venter, sometimes with reddish brown. 



New Haven, 25 July, 191 9 (M. P. Z.). 



Stenodema Laporte. 



S. trispinosum Reuter. (PL xvi, 22.) 



Ofv. Finska Vet.-Akad., Forh., xlvi, No. 15, 3, 8, 1904. 



Length 7-7.5 mm., width 1.7 mm.; pale yellowish to greenish, 

 hemelytra sometimes bright green ; distinguished by the three 

 spines near apex on posterior margin of hind femora, one of the 

 three spines much reduced in size. 



Occurs on grasses in moist meadows ; adults hibernate. 



Hamden, 20 May, 1920 (M. P. Z.) ; New Haven, 10 May (A. B. C), 

 30 May (B. H. W.), 1911 ; 6 July, 1904, 16 Oct., 1903 (H. L. V.) ; Putnam, 

 12 July, 1905 (H. L. V.). 



S. vicinum (Provancher). • 



Nat. Can., iv, yy, 1872. 



Length 7-7.5 mm., width 1.7 mm.; yellowish to greenish with 

 fuscous ; femora devoid of spines ; a median pale stripe with 

 fuscous each side, extending from tylus back over pronotum and 

 scutellum to the hemelytra; clavus and inner half of corium dark 

 fuscous to blackish in the male ; antennal segment ii, and the apical 

 segments, more or less reddish. 



Occurs on grasses in moist meadows ; adults hibernate. 



