No. 34-] HEMIPTERA OF CONNECTICUT: MIRIDAE. 597 



Male: Length 5.5 mm., width 2.5 mm. ; slightly more robust but 

 in general structure similar to qucrcalbae ; pronotum and scutellum 

 evenly shaded with rich brown, clavus and corium darker brown; 

 genital claspers distinctive of the species (fig. 132), most closely 

 related to laureae. 



Female: Length 5.6 mm., width 2.57 mm. ; very similar to the 

 male in size and coloration. 



Breeds on sour gum (Nyssa sp.). 



Lyme, 16 June, 1919 (B. H. W.). 

 L. (Neolygus) laureae Knight. 



Cornell, Univ. Agr. Expt. Sta., Bull. 391, 636, 1917. 



Male: Length 6 mm., width 2.4 mm.; resembles communis but 

 is larger ; yellowish brown, tinged with pink ; form of genital 

 claspers very unusual and distinctive (fig. 133). 



Female: Length 6.4 mm., width 2.6 mm.; similar to the male 

 but slightly more robust, and everywhere with more reddish; 

 sides of the thorax and venter with more reddish than fuscous. 



Breeds on mountain laurel (Kalmia latifolia). 



New York, Pennsylvania. 



Dichrooscytus Fieber. 



D. suspectus Reuter. 



Acta Soc .Sci. Fenn., xxxvi, No. 2, 37, 1909. 



Length 5 mm., width 2 mm. ; very similar to rufipennis Fallen, 

 if not identical; yellowish green, base of scutellum, hemelytra 

 except embolium and inner angles of cuneus, deep reddish; 

 membrane lightly infumed, veins reddish. 



Breeds on Pinus resinosa and P. sylvestris. 



Stonington, 15 July, 1914 (I. W. Davis). 

 D. elegans Uhler. 



Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xxvii, 356, 1904. 



Length 3.5 mm., width 1.5 mm.; bright green below, greenish 

 above but tinged with reddish on hemelytra; in color quite 

 resembling a small form of suspectus. 



Food plants: Red cedar (Juniperus virginiana) and white cedar 

 (Thuja occidentalis). 



New York. 

 D. viridicans Knight. 



Bull. Brook. Ent. Soc., xiii, 114, 1918. 



Male: Length 3.2 mm., width 1.25 mm.; very similar in struc- 

 ture to elegans, but bright green in color, the pubescence on prono- 

 tum blackish and more conspicuous; head, coxae, and femora, 

 often becoming pale to brownish ; pronotum and scutellum some- 

 times more yellowish green than bright green; cuneus green, 

 margins on the apical half reddish ; membrane fuscous, cell veins 

 sometimes reddish. 



