No. 34-] HEMIPTERA OF CONNECTICUT: MIRIDAE. 555 



Hemelytra: Black, very slightly shining; thickly clothed with 

 fine dusky pubescence, hairs recumbent on apical half. 



Legs: Black; coxae red. Venter: uniformly red; genital 

 claspers black. 



Female: Length 6.6 mm., width 2 mm.; slightly larger and 

 more robust than the male but similar in coloration. Head: 

 Width 1.07mm., vertex .51mm. Antennae: Segment i, length 

 .61 mm. ; ii, 2.07 mm. ; iii, 1.54 mm. ; iv, .79 mm. 



Holotype: Male, 2 Aug., Ann Arbor, Mich. (R. F. Hussey) ; author's 

 collection. Allotype: 9 July, 1921, Minnehaha Creek, Hennepin County, 

 Minn. (H. H. Knight). Indiana— Male, 26 June, 1903, Crawford County; 

 female, 7 July, 1903, Posey County (W. S. Blatchley). Minnesota— Male, 

 15 July, 191 1, Chisago County. Male, 28 June, 1922, University Farm, St. 

 Paul (H. H. Knight). 



P. circumcinctus (Say). 



Compl. Writ., i, 343, 1859. 



Male: Length 7.1mm., width 2.7 mm.; head red, front and 

 tylus blackish, juga and lora more or less black; pronotum red, 

 calli blackish, a flaring black ray behind each callus and extending 

 to basal margin of disk ; scutellum and mesoscutum red, basal 

 angles black ; pleura red, sternum reddish but becoming blackish 

 each side of median line ; hemelytra black, embolium, outer margin 

 of corium and cuneus, red; legs black, tinged with reddish near 

 bases of femora; venter chiefly red, genital segment and more or 

 less at the sides, becoming black. 



Head : Width 1.28 mm., vertex .71 mm. Antennae : Segment i, 

 length .77 mm.; ii, 2.34 mm.; iii, 1.54 mm.; iv, .95 mm. 



Female: Length 7.4 mm., width 2.J mm. ; more robust than the 

 male but very similar in coloration. Head: Width 1.2mm., 

 vertex .62 mm. Antennae : Segment i, length .j6 mm. ; ii, 

 2.03 mm. ; iii, 1.34 mm. ; iv, .91 mm. 



New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts, Maine. 

 Platytylellus rubellicollis Knight, new species. 



Male: Length 7.5 mm., width 2.8 mm. Head : Width 1.27 mm., 

 vertex .68 mm. ; black, base of vertex and bucculae reddish. Ros- 

 trum, length 2.43 mm., black. 



Antennae: Segment i, length .83mm., thickness .17mm.; ii, 

 2.54mm., thickest (.12 mm.) near base and tapering to slightly 

 more slender at apex, thickly clothed with short black hairs which 

 in length do not equal thickness of segment; iii, 1.52mm.; iv, 

 .83 mm. ; black. 



Pronotum: Length 1.43mm., width at base 2.37mm., collar 

 1.14mm.; calli impressed on basal margin, disk strongly convex; 

 black, opaque, finely granulate, finely and closely pubescent ; collar, 

 lower half of propleura, narrow anterior margin of disk and 

 extending between calli, fulvous to pink. Scutellum black ; sternum 

 and pleura velvety black. 



