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HEMIPTERA OF CONNECTICUT : MIRIDAE. 



635 



ish ; apical band on intermediate tibiae white ; inf uscation at 

 middle of membrane tending to separate into small specks ; genital 

 claspers and flagellum (fig. 149: 3) distinctive of the species. 



Apparently there are two generations of this species in one 

 season. The writer took specimens most frequently on the bark 

 of apple trees where both adults and nymphs fed on Psocids. The 

 species was also found on the bark of other trees and it is probably 

 predaceous on most soft-bodied insects living in such situations. 



Maine, Massachusetts, New York. 

 P. angustulus Reuter. 



Acta Soc. Sci. Fenn., xxxvi, No. 2, 29, 1909. 



Male: Length 6.2mm., width 2.1 mm. Head: width .96mm., 

 vertex .34 mm. ; yellowish, bucculae and large spot at base of 

 lorum blackish, tylus nearly uniformly yellowish. Rostrum, 

 length 2.6 mm., attaining middle of sixth ventral segment, yellow- 

 ish, blackish apically. 



Antennae: Segment i, length 1.26mm., chiefly pale yellowish, 

 fuscous reticulations apparent and separating the more or less con- 

 fluent pale spots; ii, 2.86mm., fuscous, more yellowish on dorsal 

 aspect, with pale annulus at base; iii, 1.5 mm., blackish, narrowly 

 yellowish at base; iv, 1.1 mm., blackish. 



Pronotum: Length 1 mm., width at base 1.66 mm. ; fusco- 

 grayish, calli and collar yellowish, disk becoming more nearly 



dimidiatus 



Fig. 136. Phytocoris dimidiatus 

 Kir sch.,— male genital claspers, 



(a) left clasper, lateral aspect with 

 outline of genital segment added, 



(b) right clasper, lateral aspect 

 with outline of genital segment 

 added, (c) flagellum. Greatly- 

 enlarged. Drawing by Dr. H. H. 

 Knight. 



-<3 ;vy 



ancjuslulus 



Fig. 137. Phytocoris angustulus 

 Reuter, — male genital claspers, (a) 

 left clasper, lateral aspect, (b) 

 right clasper, lateral aspect, (c) 

 flagellum. Greatly enlarged. 

 Drawing by Dr. H. H. Knight. 



fuscous laterally, basal submargin with two black marks each side 

 of median line, slender basal margin yellowish; clothed with 

 blackish and yellowish pubescent hairs, sparsely intermixed with 

 white sericeous pubescence, thicker along median line ; propleura 

 blackish, lower margin and spot across top of coxal cleft pale. 



