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



apex; membrane fuscous, veins and central area paler, a small 

 clear spot bordering apex of cuneus. 



Breeds on Galium boreale in Minnesota. 



Colorado, Minnesota, New York, Canada, Maine. 



The typical unifasciatus is more broadly pale than variety 

 lateralis, the embolium and corium pale except for a small fuscous 

 patch on apical area of corium. Specimens of the typical form 

 from North America have not been examined by the writer. 

 Polymerus punctipes Knight, new species. 



Legs, embolium, and outer margins of cuneus, fulvous ; hind 

 femora with a small group of fuscous points on anterior face at 

 middle of apical half. 



Male: Length 4.6mm., width 2mm. Head: Width .97mm., 

 vertex .47 mm. ; black, a yellow spot each side of vertex bordering 

 eye; yellowish pubescent. Rostrum, length 1.23mm., almost 

 attaining hind margin of sternum, yellowish, apex blackish. 



Antennae: Segment i, length .51 mm., black, narrowly yellowish 

 at base; ii, 1.85 mm., nearly cylindrical, slightly thicker on middle, 

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

 and pale pubescence intermixed ; iii, .66 mm., yellowish and tinged 

 with dusky; iv, .80mm., dusky. 



Pronotum : Length 1 mm., width at base 1.7 mm. ; black, slightly 

 shining, disk transversely rugulose ; clothed with pale and yellow- 

 ish sericeous pubescence. Scutellum black, transversely rugulose, 

 clothed with yellowish pubescence, more sericeous on basal angles. 

 Sternum and pleura black; ostiolar peritreme yellow, becoming 

 dusky on anterior lobe. 



Hemelytra : Embolar margins slightly arcuate on apical half ; 

 black, embolium and outer margin of cuneus yellowish or fulvous ; 

 surface scabriculous, slightly shining, clothed with golden sericeous 

 pubescence and intermixed with darker pubescent hairs. Mem- 

 brane rather uniformly fusco-brownish, a small nearly clear spot 

 bordering apex of cuneus, veins yellowish. 



Legs : Fulvous, spot on knee and apical tarsal segment blackish ; 

 hind femora with a group of from two to five fuscous points on 

 anterior face at middle of apical half, a prominent hair arising 

 from each of the two lower points ; pubescence pale to yellowish, 

 but blackish on apical half of femora. Venter black, clothed with 

 pale to yellowish pubescence. 



Female: Length 5.2 mm., width 2.4 mm.; embolar margins 

 strongly arcuate on apical half ; pubescence and color similar to 

 that of the male. Rostrum, length 1.31 mm., nearly attaining hind 

 margin of sternum. 



Holotype: Male, 4 July, 1915, Four Mile, N. Y. (H. H. Knight) ; author's 

 collection. Allotype : same data as the type. Paratypes : District of 

 Columbia — Female, 12 June, 1906, Brightwood (O. Heidemann). Florida 

 — Female, "Jacksonville." Maine — Male, 22 July, 1909, Machias (C. W. 



