No. 34. 



HEMIPTERA OF CONNECTICUT*. MIRIDAE. 



579 



L. pabulinus (Linnaeus). 



Cimex pabuliuus Linnaeus, Fauna Suec, Edn. 2, 253, 1761. 

 Cornell Univ. Agr. Expt. Sta., Bull. 391, 595, 1917. 



Male: Length 5.5 mm., width 2 mm.; elongate, pale green or 

 greenish yellow, frequently fading to dull yellowish; carina of 

 vertex obsolete in the middle; a fuscous Y-shaped mark formed 

 at the extreme anal area of membrane, and usually a spot within 

 the apices of areoles and a distinct longitudinal cloud extending 

 beyond to tip of membrane. 



Female: Length 6.1 mm., width 2.22 mm. ; slightly larger and 

 more robust than the male but not differing in coloration. 



Breeds on Impatiens biflora. 



Bridgeport, 20 Sept. (B. H. W.) ; Cheshire, 8 July, 1904 (H. L. V.) ; 

 Darien, 10 June, 1912 (C. W. J.) ; Middletown, 17 June, 1909 (C. W. J.) ; 

 New Haven, 10 June, 1910, 22 and 25 July, 3 Oct. (B. H. W.) ; Stratford, 

 28 Aug., 1905 (W. E. B.). 



L. fasciatus Reuter. 



Ofv. Kongl. Sv. Vet.-Akad., Forh., xxxvi, No. 2, y2, 1876. 



Male: Length 4 mm., width 1.7 mm. ; small ovate, greenish and 

 marked with reddish and brown; eyes large, width of head 

 1.03 mm., vertex .27 mm.; width of pronotum at base 1.5 mm., 

 length of antennal segment ii 1.33 mm. ; scutellum except median 

 line or apex dark reddish, red sometimes composed of spots ; inner 

 half of clavus and inner apical angles of corium, brownish black ; 

 apical half of hind femora broadly red, the apex and a ring just 



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Fig. 105. Lygus fasciatus 

 Reuter, — male genital claspers, 



(a) left clasper, lateral aspect, 



(b) left clasper, dorsal aspect, 



(c) right clasper, ventral aspect. 

 Greatly enlarged. Drawing by 

 Dr. H. H. Knight. 



Fig. 106. Lygus fagi Knight, — male 

 genital claspers, (a) left clasper, lat- 

 eral aspect, (b) left clasper, dorsal 

 aspect, (c) right clasper, ventral 

 aspect. Greatly enlarged. Drawing 

 by Dr. H. H. Knight. 



before pale, tibiae annulated at base with dark reddish, or at least 

 reddish on inside at base ; anal area of membrane distinctly inf us- 

 cated; genital claspers distinctive (fig. 105). 



Female: More robust than the male but very similar in colora- 

 tion. 



