No. 34-] HEMIPTERA OF CONNECTICUT: MIRIDAE. 603 



Johnson). Maryland — Males (2) and female, 4 June, 1914, Branchville 

 to Beltsville (W. L. McAtee). Minnesota — Female, 8 July, 1921, Lake 

 City (A. A. Nichol). Female, "Minn." New York — Males (12) and 

 females (18), taken with the types. Male, 7 July, 1917, female, 5 July, 

 1920, Cranberry Lake (C. J. Drake). Ohio — Male, 11 June, 1917, Sugar 

 Grove (C. J. Drake). Quebec — Female, 6 July, 1918, Montreal (G. A. 

 Moore). 



The writer swept this species from scattering plants of Lysi- 

 machia quadrifolia which were found growing along an old clay 

 roadway. 

 *P. fulvipes Knight, new species. 



Closely related to punctipes but distinguished by the shorter 

 rostrum ; cuneus, embolium, and legs, fulvous. 



Male: Length 4.5 mm., width 2.2 mm. Head: Width .94mm., 

 vertex .43 mm. ; black, a yellow spot each side of vertex bordering 

 eye ; yellow pubescent. Rostrum, length .97 mm., just attaining 

 middle of sternum, yellowish, apex blackish. 



Antennae: Segment i, length .48mm., yellow, apex and pubes- 

 cence black; ii, 1.71mm., thickness .114mm., cylindrical, equal 

 in thickness to segment i but narrowed at base; iii, .54mm., 

 fuscous ; iv, .68 mm., blackish. 



Pronotum : Length 1.04 mm., width at base 1.73 mm.; black, 

 nearly as in punctipes, pubescence golden yellow. Scutellum 

 black, minutely transversely rugulose, clothed with sericeous 

 golden pubescence. Sternum and pleura black, ostiolar peritreme 

 yellow. 



Hemelytra : Embolar margins slightly arcuate ; black, embolium 

 and cuneus fulvous, surface scabriculous, slightly shining, clothed 

 with sericeous, deep golden pubescence, and intermixed apically 

 with a few dark pubescent hairs. Membrane dark fuscous, a 

 narrow pale spot bordering apex of cuneus, veins yellowish. 



Legs : Fulvous, tarsi and tips of tibiae fuscous ; hind femora 

 usually with one small fuscous dot at base of a prominent hair, set 

 on anterior face at middle of apical half. Venter black, yellow to 

 golden pubescent. 



Female: Length 5.1mm., width 2.6 mm.; embolar margins 

 more distinctly arcuate than in male ; similar to the male in pubes- 

 cence and color, but antennal segment ii slightly more slender. 

 Rostrum, length 1.04 mm., just attaining middle of venter, fulvous, 

 blackish at apex. 



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

 collection. Allotype : same data as the type. Paratypes : Connecticut — 

 Females (2), 14 June, 1920, New Haven (B. H. Walden). Males (2), 21 

 June, 1921, Danielson (J. T. Ashworth). Male, 26 June, 1916, South 

 Meriden (H. L. Johnson). New York — Male and female, taken with the 

 types. Females (4), 4-7 July, 1915, Bayshore, Long Island (C. E. Olsen). 

 Female, 14 June, 1909, Pinelawn, Long Island (Wm. T. Davis). North 

 Carolina — Female, 30 June, 1912, Black Mountains (Beutenmuller). Males 

 (2) and females (2), 8 June, 1916, Craggy Mountains (R. W. Leiby). 

 South Dakota — Female, 25 June, 1919, Brookings (H. C. Severin). 



