No. 34-] HEMIPTERA OF CONNECTICUT: MIRIDAE. 



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black rays; scutellum pale yellowish, frequently fuscous at base, 

 in darker specimens a fuscous median line extending from base 

 toward apex. Hemelytra in color very much resembling those of 

 omnivagus, but the two black rays on pronotum, and the dark color 

 of the scutellum appearing along the median line, distinguish this 

 variety at once from that species. 



Branford, 8 June, 13 June (B. H. W.) ; Portland, 5 June, 1914 

 (B. H. W.) ; South Meriden, 7 June (H. L. J.). 



L. (Neolygus) atrinotatus Knight. 



Cornell Univ. Agr. Expt. Sta., Bull. 391, 617, 1917. 



Male: Length 4.7 mm., width 2.08 mm.; resembles canadensis 

 var. binotatus and certain color forms of parshleyi, but differs 

 greatly in the genital claspers (fig. 118); yellowish brown, 

 antennal segment ii and two conspicuous spots on pronotum black ; 

 clavus, apical half of corium, and narrow lateral margins of scutel- 

 lum, blackish; a blackish stripe on the sides extending for full 

 length of body. 



Female: Length 5.5 mm., width 2.3 mm. ; slightly larger and 

 more robust than the male but very similar in coloration. 

 District of Columbia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania. 



VIIIICOIIIS 



Fig. 119. Lygus vitticollis 

 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. 120. Lygus neglectus 

 Knight, — 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. 



L. (Neolygus) vitticollis Reuter. 



Lygus vitticollis Reuter, Ofv. Kongl. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Forh., xxxii, No. 9, 

 71, 1876. 



Cornell Univ. Agr. Expt. Sta., Bull. 391, 618, 1917. 



Male: Length 5.8 mm., width 2.48 mm.; elongate, easily dis- 

 tinguished by its large size and black markings ; pale yellowish, 

 two rays on pronotum, clavus, apical half of posterior femora, 

 apices of corium and embolium, black ; rostrum reaching only upon 

 intermediate coxae ; genital claspers (fig. 119) distinctive. 



