600 CONNECTICUT GEOL. AND NAT. HIST. SURVEY. [Bull. 



Female: Length 4.5 mm., width 2.3 mm.; very similar to the 

 male, the pronotum somewhat more broadly pale; basal angle of 

 cuneus reddish. 



Holotype: Male, 23 June, 1907, Brown's Mills Junction, N. J.; author's 

 collection. Allotype : same data as the type. Paratypes : Male and 

 females (3), taken with the types. Specimens kindly presented to the 

 writer by Dr. C. J. Drake. 



Polymerus tinctipes Knight, new species. 



Male: Length 3.7mm., width 1.63 mm. Head: Width .94mm., 

 vertex .44 mm. ; black, each side of vertex with a yellow spot 

 bordering eye ; clothed with pale sericeous pubescence. Rostrum, 

 length 1.66 mm., attaining or slightly exceeding hind margins of 

 posterior coxae, piceous, yellowish at joints, basal segment chiefly 

 reddish. 



Antennae: Segment i, length .33mm., black; ii, 1.40mm., 

 cylindrical, more slender at base but apical half equal in thickness 

 (.086 mm.) to segment i, black, closely set with yellowish and 

 dusky pubescence; iii, .66mm., blackish, somewhat thickened, 

 tapering to more slender apically; iv, .50 mm., slender, brownish 

 black. 



Pronotum: Length .78mm., width at base 1.40mm.; black, 

 obsoletely rugulose, lower pleural margin and the xyphus pale; 

 clothed with simple pale and sericeous silvery pubescence. Scutel- 

 lum black, transversely rugulose, clothed with sericeous white 

 pubescence. Sternum and pleura black, silvery pubescent ; ostiolar 

 peritreme fuscous, posterior margin somewhat yellowish. 



Hemelytra : Embolar margins moderately arcuate ; obsoletely 

 scabriculous, slightly shining; clothed with sericeous silvery pubes- 

 cence ; black, narrow apex of embolium and of cuneus pale. 

 Membrane uniformly dark fusco-brownish, narrowly paler border- 

 ing apex of cuneus, veins brownish. 



Legs : Coxae pale, a black spot on basal angle ; femora yellow- 

 ish, apical half reddish but divided by a yellowish annulus, ventral 

 margin with an irregular row of six to eight fuscous dots, each 

 dot formed at base of a prominent hair ; tibiae reddish over a 

 yellowish background, spines, pubescence, and spot on knee, black ; 

 tarsi fuscous. Venter black, clothed with white and dusky 

 pubescence. 



Female: Length 4.2 mm., width 2.1mm.; embolar margins 

 strongly arcuate; more robust than the male but very similar in 

 coloration, the pale spots on vertex and tip of embolium slightly 

 enlarged ; antennal segment ii more slender than in the male, not 

 attaining thickness of segment i. 



Holotype: Male, 3 May, 1915, Great Falls, Md. (J. D. Hood) ; collection 

 of W. L. McAtee. Allotype: taken with the type; author's collection. 

 Paratypes: Males (2), taken with the types (J. D. Hood) ; collected "on 

 lichen covered rock." 



