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



Female: Length 7.6 mm., width 2.6 mm.; larger and more 

 robust than the male, very similar in coloration but the dorsum 

 lighter colored; antennal segment i longer, equal to distance 

 between basal margin of pronotum and a line drawn through front 

 margins of eyes. 



Massachusetts, Long Island, N. Y. 



P. dimidiatus Kirschbaum. 



Phytocoris dimidiatus Kirschbaum, Jahrb. Ver. Nat. Herz. Nassau, x, 199, 

 282, 1855; (Sep.) Caps. v. Wiesb., 39, 122, 1855. 



Reuter, Hem. Gymn. Eur., v, 265, 1896. 



Phytocoris dubius Douglas and Scott, Brit. Hem. Het, 305, 1865. 



Male: Length 6.4mm., width 2.3 mm. Head: Width 1.08 mm., 

 vertex .40 mm. ; testaceous and marked with brownish above, 

 front with five oblique brownish lines each side of median line ; 

 tylus pale, a transverse reddish to black band across middle which 

 has its lower margin in line with lower margins of juga ; pale 

 about base of antenna, a large black spot on base of juga, lora 

 reddish black, pale apically except along margins ; bucculae dark, 

 gula white. Rostrum, length 2.8 mm., just attaining base of fifth 

 abdominal segment, pale, brownish on apical segment. 



Antennae: Segment i, length 1.32mm., brownish black, nearly 

 pale beneath, dorsal aspect with eleven or twelve irregular white 

 glabrous spots, clothed with short black hairs and beset with about 

 one pale or black bristle for each of the white spots; ii, 2.57mm., 

 blackish, base and annulus at slightly beyond middle, pale; iii, 

 1.63 mm., black, pale at base; iv, 1.08 mm., blackish. 



Pronotum: Length 1.04mm., width at base 1.08 mm. ; disk 

 testaceous to fuscous and with a tinge of greenish, narrow lateral 

 margins, median line behind calli, irregularly along subbasal 

 margin, blackish; calli yellowish to brownish, with one or two 

 dark marks on disk; clothed with yellowish and blackish pubes- 

 cence intermixed; propleura black, beneath a line drawn through 

 lower margin of coxal cleft, white. Scutellum testaceous to black- 

 ish, median line pale apically, blackish bordering the pale. 

 Sternum and pleura blackish, ostiolar peritreme white. 



Hemelytra : Embolar margins very slightly arcuate ; blackish, a 

 triangular pale area at apex of cuneus ; a somewhat paler area at 

 middle and at near base of corium, inner margins of clavUs and 

 irregularly along claval vein slightly paler; embolium pale to 

 yellowish and marked with blackish; clothed with yellowish and 

 blackish pubescence intermixed. Cuneus yellowish, irregularly 

 darkened with fuscous, apex and one or two spots along inner 

 margin black, outer margin becoming reddish. Membrane pale, 

 irregularly and rather thickly conspurcate with blackish, larger 

 areole with basal one-fourth and narrowly bordering the black 

 radius, uniformly blackish ; cubitus pale along apices of areoles, 

 also a small pale spot bordering apex of cuneus. 



