59 8 CONNECTICUT GEOL. AND NAT. HIST. SURVEY. [Bull. 



Female: Length 3.3 mm., width 14 mm.; slightly more robust 

 than the male but not differing in coloration. 



Breeds on red cedar (Juniperus virginiana) ; sometimes found 

 in company with elegans but of numerous specimens examined no 

 variation is evident which would indicate that we are dealing with 

 forms of a single species. 



Allotype: Male, 11 July, 1920, Taghanic, N. Y. (H. H. Knight) ; author's 

 collection. 



Long Island, N. Y. 



Polymerus Hahn. (Poeciloscytus Authors). 

 Key to Species. 



1. Rostrum reaching upon hind coxae, or slightly beyond 2 



Rostrum not reaching upon hind coxae 4 



2. Rostrum scarcely attaining hind margins of posterior coxae 3 



Rostrum reaching slightly beyond posterior coxae; yellowish 



brown and darkened with fuscous, cuneus red, or rarely paler basalis 



3. Dorsum with pale and black ; apical half of femora fulvous, tibiae 



pale ; cuneus, and scutellum except basal angles, pale 



nigropallidus n. sp. 

 Dorsum uniformly black, or only very narrowly pale on tip of 

 embolium and cuneus ; apical half of femora reddish brown but 



with a subapical paler annulus ; tibiae stained with reddish 



tinctipes n. sp. 



4. Rostrum reaching upon middle coxae 5 



Rostrum not reaching beyond hind margin of sternum 6 



5. Rostrum attaining hind margins of middle coxae ; dorsum black, 



narrow apex of cuneus and slenderly each side of fracture, pale ; 



tibiae uniformly black proximus n. sp. 



Rostrum just attaining middle of intermediate coxae; dorsum black 

 and with pale, tip of scutellum and basal angle of corium pale, 

 cuneus with pale, red, and black unifasciatus 



6. Rostrum not reaching beyond middle of sternum 7 



Rostrum nearly attaining posterior margin of sternum ; legs rather 



uniformly fulvous but hind femora with a small group of fuscous 

 points on anterior face at middle of apical half punctipes n. sp. 



7. Tibiae fulvous or with pale 8 



Tibiae black 9 



8. Legs uniformly fulvous ; cuneus and embolium pale or fulvous . . 



fulvipes n. sp. 

 Legs red, apical one-third of femora black; tibiae yellowish, 

 apices, and more or less broadly at base, black; antennal seg- 

 ment ii yellowish, blackish apically venustus n. sp. 



9. Rostrum reaching behind front coxae, or to near middle of sternum 10 

 Rostrum scarcely attaining hind margins of front coxae; femora 



red with only apices black gerhardi n. sp. 



10. Cuneus red; male with coxae black, and antennal segment 11 dis- 

 tinctly more slender than segment i; coxae yellow in female; 

 dorsum black, somewhat shining, clothed with silvery sericeous # 



pubescence • • • • • venaticus 



Cuneus black; male with coxae yellow as in the female, antennal 

 segment ii equally thick as segment i ; dorsum deep black, opaque, 

 scutellum and hemelytra clothed chiefly with black pubescence . . 



opacus n. sp. 



