No. 34. 



HEMIPTERA OF CONNECTICUT: MIRIDAE. 



577 



L. pratensis var. rubidus Knight. 



Cornell Univ. Agr. Expt. Sta., Bull. 391, 565, 1917. 



Male: Length 5.5 mm., width 2.5 mm. ; bright ruby red ; prono- 

 tum with a small black spot behind each callus ; antennal segments 

 red, with apex of segment ii, and all of segments iii and iv, black- 

 ish; scutellum pale, marked with red at middle of base; cuneus 

 margined with red but pale translucent in the middle ; ostiolar 

 orifice and a longitudinal stripe on sides of venter paler ; tibiae pale 

 reddish, spines black; sternum beneath, and tips of tarsi, blackish. 



Maine. 

 L. vanduzeei Knight. 



Cornell Univ. Agr. Expt. Sta., Bull. 391, 565, 1917. 



Male: Length 7.1mm., width 3.3 mm.; larger than pratensis, 

 nearly glabrous, strongly shining, yellowish brown to rich brown 

 with fuscous; genital claspers distinctive of the species (fig. 101). 



vanduzeei 



Fig. 1 01. Lygus vanduzeei 

 Knight, — male genital claspers, 



(a) left clasper, lateral aspect, 



(b) left clasper, dorsal aspect, 



(c) right clasper, internal lat- 

 eral aspect. Greatly enlarged. 

 Drawing by Dr. H. H. Knight. 



Fig. 102. Lygus plagiatus 

 Uhler, — male genital claspers, 



(a) left clasper, lateral aspect, 



(b) left clasper, dorsal aspect, 



(c) right clasper, internal lat- 

 eral aspect. Greatly enlarged. 

 Drawing by Dr. H. H. Knight. 



Female: Very similar to the male in size and coloration. 



Colebrook, 19 June (P. G.) ; Cornwall, 4 June (K. F. C.) ; Danbury, 

 29 Aug. (B. H. W.) ; New Haven, 27 July (B. H. W.) ; Portland, 24 

 July, 1921 (B. H. W.). 



L. vanduzeei var. rubroclarus Knight. 



Cornell Univ. Agr. Expt. Sta., Bull. 391, 567, 1917. 



Length 6.6 mm., width 2.9 mm.; structurally very similar to 

 vanduzeei but differing greatly in general appearance; slightly 

 smaller than the typical vanduzeei but larger than pratensis; bright 

 ruby red, shining; pronotum and antennae marked with blackish 

 as in vanduzeei. 



Norfolk, 5 June (M. P. Zappe). 



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