No. 34-] HEMIPTERA OF CONNECTICUT: MIRIDAE. 625 



base of tylus ; a line behind lower margin of eye and a small mark 

 just above base of antenna, black; clothed with pale pubescence, 

 front with a few blackish hairs intermixed. Rostrum, length 

 3.2 mm., attaining base of ovipositor, pale, blackish at apex. 



Antennae: Segment i, length 1.61 mm., black, dorsal aspect 

 with large spot on middle, small one near apex, and two or three 

 small ones near base, white, beset with several white and dusky 

 setae; ii, 3.14mm., black, with broad pale band at base and one 

 on middle; iii, 1.86 mm., blackish, pale at base and for a space 

 beginning at middle; iv, 1.26mm., fuscous. 



Pronotum: Length .91 mm., width 1.54 mm.; basal margin of 

 disk nearly as in antennalis, lateral margins broadly black, central 

 area of disk, calli except outer margins, and collar except spot on 

 sides, pale testaceous ; disk clothed with white sericeous pubescence 

 and intermixed with short black hairs; propleura pale, bordering 

 dorsal margin, a line across lower margin of coxal cleft and 

 extending to basal margin, black; xyphus pale. Scutellum pale 

 testaceous, somewhat darkened with fuscous, an obsolete pale 

 median line is apparent, clothed with pale sericeous pubescence and 

 with short black hairs intermixed. Sternum blackish, pale along 

 median line, pleura blackish, ostiolar peritreme pale. 



Hemelytra: Embolar margins slightly arcuate; clothed with 

 pale sericeous pubescence and intermixed with short black hairs ; 

 pale testaceous and darkened with fuscous and black ; embolium 

 blackish, interrupted with large pale spots ; corium blackish on 

 inner apical angle, distinctly pale at outer apical angle, radius indi- 

 cated by blackish on apical half ; clavus becoming fuscous on disk ; 

 cuneus pale, apex and spot at middle of inner margin black, clothed 

 with short black hairs. Membrane pale, rather thickly and uni- 

 formly conspurcate with fuscous, a small nearly clear spot at apex 

 of cuneus and a second one at margin slightly beyond ; veins pale, 

 that between areoles fuscous. 



Legs : Pale, femora irregularly marked with large black spots 

 on apical half, hind femora with one or two large black marks on 

 dorsal surface just short of middle ; front tibiae with band at 

 apex, a narrower one at middle, and a smaller one at middle of 

 basal half, black; intermediate tibiae narrowly fuscous at apex, 

 band at middle, one at middle of basal half, and a third at slightly 

 beyond middle of apical half, black; hind tibiae pale, irregularly 

 darkened with fuscous, spines yellowish ; tarsi pale, apex and base 

 becoming fuscous 



Venter : Pale to nearly white, a broad band along dorsal margin, 

 apical segment and vagina exterior, black; clothed with pale to 

 yellowish pubescence. 



Holotype: Female, 23 July, Lakehurst, N. J. (Wm. T. Davis) ; author's 

 collection. Paratype : Female, 29 July, 1912, Central Park, Long Island, 

 N. Y. (Wm. T.Davis). 



Named in honor of the collector, Mr. Wm. T. Davis. 



