No. 34-] HEMIPTERA OF CONNECTICUT: MIRIDAE. 599 



P. basalis (Reuter). 



Ofv. Kongl. Sv. Vet-Akad. Forh., xxxii, No. 9, 73, 1876. 



Length 3.7-4.8111111., width 1.7-2.3 mm. ; pale to yellowish and 

 darkened with fuscous and black ; hemelytra yellowish translucent, 

 clavus and apical half of corium chiefly fuscous ; scutellum black, 

 apex more or less pale ; cuneus red, sometimes the embolium and 

 legs also tinged with reddish ; posterior femora with two subapical 

 fuscous bands ; clothed with silvery sericeous pubescence which 

 appears golden yellow in certain lights. 



Food plant: Dog fennel (Anthemis). 



East River, Sept., 1910 (C. R. E.) ; New Haven, 24 June, 1920 

 (E. J. S. M.), 20 July, 1904 (W. E. B.), 12 July, 1916 (M. P. Z.) ; 16 

 June, 1920, 6 July, 191 1, 28 Aug., 1910 (B. H. W.) ; Orange, 23 July, 1904 

 (P. L. B.). 



P. nigropallidus Knight, new species. 



Male: Length 4.3 mm., width 1.8 mm. Head: Width 1 mm., 

 vertex .34 mm. ; collum broadly exposed ; black, carina, spot each 

 side of vertex bordering eye, median line on vertex and front, lora, 

 bucculae, and stripe each side of gula, pale; head shaped nearly 

 as in basalis. Rostrum, length 1.72 mm., nearly attaining hind 

 margins of posterior coxae, yellowish, apex blackish. 



Antennae: Segment i, length .40mm., black; ii, 1.63mm., 

 cylindrical, nearly equal in thickness to segment i, black, clothed 

 with short black pubescence; iii, .74mm., black; iv, missing. 



Pronotum: Length .93 mm., width at base 1.6 mm. ; obscurely 

 transversely rugulose, moderately shining, clothed with sericeous, 

 pale to yellowish pubescence ; black, collar, anterior margins of 

 calli and just before, between calli and a rather broad spot on 

 median line of disk but rarely reaching basal margin, basal margin 

 but more broadly at basal angles, pleura except near dorsal margin, 

 pale to yellow. Scutellum pale or yellow, basal angles and the 

 mesoscutum black ; finely transversely rugulose, yellowish pubes- 

 cent. Sternum yellowish to brownish; pleura yellowish, ostiolar 

 peritreme pale. 



Hemelytra : Embolar margins only very slightly arcuate ; pale, 

 inner half of clavus and slightly bordering claval suture, blackish ; 

 apical half of corium with a blackish stripe lying just within radial 

 vein, the outer margin bordering embolium blackish except near 

 apex ; cuneus pale translucent, clothed with dark pubescence as 

 on apical half of embolium and outer margin of corium; clavus 

 except bordering commissure, and inner half of corium, clothed 

 with yellowish sericeous pubescence. Membrane uniformly dark 

 fuscous, veins and narrowly bordering apex of cuneus, pale. 



Legs : Fulvous, coxae and tibiae more yellowish or testaceous, 

 spines and pubescence black; hind femora with two or three fine 

 fuscous points on ventral margin; apical tarsal segment and a 

 spot on knee of posterior tibia, fuscous. Venter rather uniformly 

 bright yellow, pale pubescent. 



