No. 34-] HEMIPTERA OF CONNECTICUT: MIRIDAE. 633 



Male: Length 5.7mm., width 2mm. Head: Width .94mm., 

 vertex .35 mm. ; yellowish, frequently tinged with reddish ; geminate 

 mark at base of tylus and apical half excluding a pale spot on each 

 side opposite tips of lora, dorsal margin of lora, juga, bucculae, 

 and a ray passing lower margin of eye, reddish brown to fuscous 

 or black; front clothed with long pale hairs. Rostrum, length 

 2.4 mm., attaining basal margin of genital segment, yellowish, 

 blackish toward the apex. 



Antennae: Segment i, length 1.28mm., yellowish, irregularly 

 mottled with fuscous, bearing five or six long pale setae; ii, 

 2.77 mm., fuscous, pale at base for space of .17 mm., the infusca- 

 tion distinctly paler on dorsal aspect of middle third and becoming 

 darker toward each end; iii, 1.6 mm., dark fuscous, pale at base 

 for space of .14mm., and again very narrowly at apex; iv, 

 1.25 mm., blackish. 



Pronotum: Length .91mm., width at base 1.6 mm., anterior 

 angles .57 mm., collar .64 mm. ; lateral margins very slightly sul- 

 cate, gently rounded basally; disk moderately arched, an even 

 contour maintained behind calli and at lateral margins ; calli oval, 

 slightly separated, delimited behind by an impressed margin, pale 

 with one or two fuscous marks on outer half ; disk testaceous to 

 fuscous, central area frequently grayish green, paler anteriorly, 

 narrow basal margin pale, sub-basal margin with six blackish 

 points that frequently join; disk distinctly hairy, longest hairs at 

 anterior angles, hairs taking the color of the surface where they 

 arise; collar pale, marked with reddish each side of the median 

 line, bearing several prominent pale hairs ; propleura blackish, 

 lower margins and mark across base of coxal cleft, pale. Scutel- 

 lum testaceous, a pair of diverging black vittae just before apex, 

 becoming paler toward the median line; mesoscutum moderately 

 exposed, sloping abruptly downward at lateral angles ; heavily 

 clothed with a mixture of pale and yellowish pubescence. Sternum 

 blackish, a pale ray on each side behind ventral margin of pro- 

 pleura ; pleura fuscous, narrow margins of sclerites, basalar piece, 

 and ostiolar peritreme, pale. 



Hemelytra: Clothed with prominent yellowish pubescence and 

 intermixed with groups of white deciduous tomentum, dark hairs 

 arising from the dark markings ; greenish gray to fuscous, corium 

 with base, middle, a triangular spot just before cuneus, several 

 spots on the embolium, paler and more or less translucent ; tip of 

 embolium, an oblique nearly triangular patch lying just inside of 

 radius at apex of corium, bordering the claval suture except on 

 basal one-third, fuscous to black; clavus more or less fuscous 

 either side of claval vein and bordering the claval suture. Cuneus 

 grayish translucent, the apex, a small point along the inner margin 

 and a second near basal angle, black ; the paler part usually show- 

 ing some brownish or reddish coloration. Membrane fuscous, a 



