No. 34. 



HEMIPTERA OF CONNECTICUT I MIRIDAE. 



575 



L. rubicundus (Fallen). 



Phytocoris rubicundus Fallen, Hemip. Suec, 92, 1829. 

 Cornell Univ. Agr. Expt. Sta., Bull. 391, 589, 1917. 



Male: Length 4.5 mm., width 2.14 mm.; ovate, robust, dark 

 reddish brown to fuscous ; antennal segment ii shorter than width 

 of head; genital claspers very distinctive of the species (fig. 98). 



Female: Very similar to the male in structure but usually not 

 so darkly colored. 



Breeds on Salix amygdaloides, also occurs to some extent on 

 other willows. 



Portland, 25 July, 8 Aug., 191 3 (B. H. W.). 

 L. campestris (Linnaeus). 



Cimex campestris Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., Edn. 10, 448, 1758. 

 Cornell Univ. Agr. Expt. Sta., Bull. 391, 592, 1917. 



Male: Length 4.1mm., width 1.77 mm.; ovate, rather small, 

 greenish brown or brownish yellow with fuscous, scutellum bright 

 yellow or green ; genital claspers distinctive of the species. 



'P. 



campestrfo 



Fig. 99. . Lygus campestris Lin- 

 naeus, — male genital claspers, (a) 

 left clasper, lateral aspect, (b) left 

 clasper, dorsal aspect, (c) right 

 clasper, internal lateral aspect. 

 Greatly enlarged. Drawing by Dr. 

 H. H. Knight. 



pratensb 



Fig. 100. Lygus pratensis Lin- 

 naeus, — male genital claspers, (a) 

 left clasper, lateral aspect, (b) left 

 clasper, dorsal aspect, (c) right 

 clasper, internal lateral aspect. 

 Greatly enlarged. Drawing by Dr. 

 H. H. Knight. 



Female: Slightly more robust than the male, antennal segment 

 ii more slender ; very similar to the male in coloration. 



Breeds on Conium maculatum, also on other plants of the family 

 Umbelliferae. 



Branford, 28 July, 1905 (H. W. W.) ; Colebrook, 21 July, 1905 

 (H. L. V.) ; New Haven, 2 June, 1908 (B. H. W.) ; Orange, 3 Apr., 

 1905 (W. E. B.). 



L. pratensis Linnaeus var. oblineatus (Say). Tarnished plant 

 bug. (PI. xvi, 15.) 



Capsus oblineatus Say, Heter. N. Harm., 21, 1832; Compl. Writ, i, 340, 

 1859. 



Cornell Univ. Agr. Expt. Sta., Bull. 391, 564, 1917. 



Male and female: Length 4.9-5.5 mm., width 2.5 mm.; ovate, 

 shining, yellowish brown with more or less blackish marking, or 



