No. 34-] HEMIPTERA OF CONNECTICUT: MIRIDAE. 



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ation very similar to that of male but hemelytra shorter and 

 embolar margins somewhat more strongly arcuate. 



A single specimen is at hand, female, 17 Aug., 1914, Yarmouth, 

 Nova Scotia (W. H. Brittain). Comparison has been made with 

 European specimens of ulmi Linnaeus which were determined by 

 Reuter. 



Recorded in Europe as occurring on Ulmus, Alnus, Quercus, 

 and other plants. 



P. palmeri Reuter. 



Acta Soc. Sci. Fenn., xxxvi, No. 2, 32, 1909. 



Male: Length 7 mm., width 1.7 mm. Sordid white-canescent, 

 variegated with fuscous and black; sides of pronotum and thin 

 band before basal margin blackish, disk fuscous to blackish vittate. 



Antennae: Segment i linear, slender, variegated with white, 

 equal in length to pronotum plus basal third of head, and but 

 little shorter than basal margin of pronotum; segment ii very 

 narrowly blackish at base, with a narrow white band just short of 

 middle. 



Fig. 134. Phytocoris palmeri 

 Reuter, — male genital claspers, 



(a) left clasper, lateral aspect, 



(b) right clasper, lateral aspect. 

 Greatly enlarged. Drawing by 

 Dr. H. H. Knight. 



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Fig. 135. Phytocoris junceus Knight, 

 — male genital claspers, (a) left clasper, 

 lateral aspect, (b) right clasper, lateral 

 aspect, with outline of genital segment 

 added, (c) flagellum. Greatly enlarged. 

 Drawing by Dr. H. H. Knight. 



Scutellum black, shining, basal angles and apical median line 

 white. Membrane densely hyaline, conspurcate with blackish. 

 Genital claspers distinctive (fig. 134), especially in the form of 

 right clasper. 



Described from Quinze Lake, Quebec. The figure of the male 

 genital claspers was drawn from the type in the collection of 

 E. P. Van Duzee. 

 Phytocoris junceus Knight, new species. 



Male: Length 9.2 mm., width 2.7 mm. Head: Width 1.11 mm., 

 vertex .41 mm. ; black, shining ; collum pale, median line pale but 

 with slender blackish line each side setting it ofi\ also an oblique 

 black line behind dorsal margin of each eye ; vertex with slight 

 groove on median line, each side with a prominent alutaceous spot ; 

 front beset with prominent brownish black hairs. Rostrum, length 

 3.6 mm., reaching upon sixth abdominal segment, brownish to 

 piceous, darker apically. 



