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Hemelytra: Embolar margins moderately arcuate on apical 

 half; black, opaque, minutely granulate, finely and closely dusky 

 pubescent. 



Legs : Black ; tibiae clothed with short heavy black hairs, length 

 of hairs not equal to thickness of segment, hind pair with one row 

 of short spine-like hairs on outer surface. 



Venter : Velvety black ; finely pubescent but with longer pubes- 

 cent hairs beneath and bordering caudal margins of segments; 

 genital segment without tubercle. 



Female: Length 7.7 mm., width 2.9 mm.; very similar to the 

 male in form and coloration. 



Holotype: Male, 21 June, 1919, University Farm, St. Paul, Minn. (H. H. 

 Knight); Minn. Univ. coll. Allotype: taken with the type. Paratypes: 

 Males and females (38), taken with types. Both adults and nymphs were 

 collected on Scrophularia leporella, but the conditions were such it was not 

 possible to observe the bugs feeding on the plant. 



P. rubellicollis var. vittiscutis Knight, new variety. 



Similar to the typical form but having a distinct reddish orange 

 vitta on scutellum ; calli becoming red, and the short median vitta 

 extending to near middle of disk. 



Holotype: Male, 21 June, 1919, University Farm, St. Paul, Minn. (H. H. 

 Knight); Minn. Univ. coll. Paratypes: Males (5) and females (5), 

 taken with the type. Maine — Male, 31 July, 1920, Peaks Island (G. A. 

 Moore). Female, 26 Sept., 1897, Mt. Kineo (F. Eddy). 



P. rubellicollis var. confluens Knight, new variety. 



Similar to the typical form but the pink color more nearly 

 orange ; the broad orange vitta on scutellum connected with 

 anterior margin of pronotal disk by a distinct orange vitta. 



Holotype: Male, 24 July, 1920, Peaks Island, Me. (G. A. Moore); 

 author's collection. Paratypes : Maine — Female, 27 July, male, 28 July, 

 female, 31 July, male and female, 4 Aug., 1920, type locality (G. A. Moore). 



P. insitivus (Say). 



Compl. Writ., i, 340, 1859. 



Male: Length 8.7 mm., width 3.6 mm.; black, pronotum and 

 scutellum orange-yellow ; surface very finely granulate, opaque, 

 short pubescent; width of collar greater than width of head. 



Head: Width 1.36mm., vertex .81 mm. Width of collar 

 1.4mm. Antennae: Segment i, length 1.07mm.; ii, 3mm. 

 nearly cylindrical, length of hairs not equal to thickness of 

 segment ; iii, 1 .98 mm. ; iv, .94 mm. 



Female: Length 8.7 mm., width 3.5 mm. ; very similar to the 

 male in form and coloration. Head: Width 1.41mm., vertex 

 .81 mm. Width of collar 1.44mm. Antennae: Segment i, 

 length 1.02 mm.; ii, 2.85 mm.; iii, 1.86 mm. ; iv, 87 mm. 



Lyme, 20 Aug., 1910 (B. H. W.). 

 P. insitivus var. angusticollis Knight, new variety. 



Color and form very similar to insitivus but smaller in size, 

 width of head greater than width of collar. 



