No. 34-] HEMIPTERA OF CONNECTICUT: MIRIDAE. 607 



Legs: Coxae and femora deep red, coxae more yellowish or 

 orange ; tips of femora, tibiae, and tarsi, black ; tibiae unusually 

 thick for the genus, spines and pubescence also black. Venter 

 black, thickly clothed with sericeous white pubescence and inter- 

 mixed with more erect, dark pubescent hairs. 



Holotype: Female, 1 July, 191 1, Hessville, Ind. (W. J. Gerhard); 

 author's collection. Paratypes : Females (5), collected "at light" with the 

 type. Among material from the U. S. National Museum the writer finds a 

 specimen, male, 15 April, 1906, Cotulla, Texas (F. C. Pratt), that 

 apparently belongs to this species although it is much smaller than the 

 females from Indiana. 



The writer takes pleasure in naming this large and beautiful 

 species after the collector, Mr. W. J. Gerhard. 



Poecilocapsus Reuter. 



P. lineatus (Fabricius). Four-lined leaf bug. (Plate xvi, 18.) 



Lygaeus lineatus Fabricius, Ent. Syst. Suppl., 541, 1798, 



Cornell Univ. Agr. Expt. Sta., Bull. 58, 1893. 



Length 7-7.5 mm., width 3.5 mm. ; greenish yellow with four 

 black lines on the dorsum ; certain specimens have the yellow of 

 the hemelytra replaced with bright green. 



Breeds on a large number of herbaceous plants, but especially on 

 Rumex ; occasionally becomes a pest on currant bushes. 



Bantam, 19 June, 1914 (W. E. B.) ; Branford, 23 June, 1905 (H. L. V.) ; 

 29 June, 1905 (H. W. W.) ; New Haven, 12 June, 1896 (W. E. B.) ; 14 

 June, 1905 (B. H. W.) ; Stonington, 5 July, 1906 (J. A. H.). 



Horcias Distant. 



Key to color varieties of dislocatus Say. 



Color red and black 2 



Color black with pale, or entirely black 7 



Pronotum more or less black 3 



Pronotum uniformly red 4 



Pronotal disk bivittate with black on basal half typical dislocatus 



Pronotal disk black on basal half but not vittate . .variety goniphorus 



Hemelytra red or only slightly infuscated 5 



Hemelytra broadly black, or entirely black 6 



5. Scutellum black variety coccineus 



Scutellum red as well as the whole dorsum variety rubellus n. var. 



6. Hemelytra uniformly black variety residuus 



Hemelytra with lateral margins red variety gradus n. var. 



( 1 ) Pronotum more or less pale 8 



Pronotum uniformly black 12 



Scutellum uniformly black 9 



Scutellum with median line pale 10 



Hemelytra with lateral margins broadly pale, claval suture never 



pale variety limbatellus 



Hemelytra with lateral margins slenderly pale, claval suture 



bordered each side with pale variety scutatus n. var. 



10. Clavus with pale ll 



Clavus uniformly black variety nigriclavus n. var. 



