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



Scutellum yellowish, a small brownish spot each side along margin 

 of apical half. Sternum blackish, median line and spot behind 

 lower margin of propleura, yellowish; propleura yellowish to 

 fuscous, ostiolar peritreme white. 



Hemelytra : Embolar margins scarcely arcuate ; pale to yellow- 

 ish and darkened with fuscous ; clothed with yellowish to blackish 

 pubescence and intermixed with spots of white sericeous tomentose 

 pubescence ; a triangular pale translucent spot at apex of corium 

 which is confluent with pale on cuneus, also with the pale spot on 

 middle and one near base of corium. Cuneus pale, apical half 

 reddish to blackish, a black spot at middle of inner margin, also a 

 spot on corio-membrane margin. Membrane uniformly dark 

 fuscous, a paler area bordering apex of cuneus and smaller areole, 

 somewhat pale at slightly distad of this spot but not extending to 

 margin. 



Legs : Coxae pale yellowish ; femora blackish, thickly con- 

 spurcate with small pale spots, more broadly paler near base, hind 

 pair with a subapical oblique pale band formed by coalescing pale 

 spots ; tibiae fuscous and with pale, indistinctly banded, hind pair 

 chiefly fuscous but with broad pale area at middle of basal half. 



Venter : Blackish, more yellowish on genital segment ; genital 

 claspers distinctive (fig. 137). 



Female: Length 6.1 mm., width 2.1 mm.; very similar to the 

 male in form and coloration. 



Collected by the writer on Tsitga canadensis. 



New York, Vermont, Nova Scotia. 

 Phytocoris nigricollis Knight, new species. 



Male: Length 5.1 mm., width 1.77mm. Head: Width .92mm., 

 vertex .28 mm. ; yellow, a reddish or blackish mark behind dorsal 

 margin of eye; apical half of tylus, dorsal margins of lora, lora 

 except apically, bucculae, and spot beneath eye, black, gula pale. 

 Rostrum (female) length 2.34 mm., extending upon fifth 

 abdominal segment, yellowish, blackish apically. 



Antennae : Segment i, length .86 mm., pale yellowish, black on 

 dorsal aspect but broken by large and small yellowish irrorations, 

 clothed with short black and pale hairs, a pale bristle arising from 

 each yellowish spot but in length little exceeding thickness of seg- 

 ment; ii, 2.24 mm., black, with pale annulus at base, clothed with 

 short pale to dusky pubescence; hi, 1.18 mm., black, pale at base; 

 iv, .97 mm., black. 



Pronotum : Length .86 mm., width at base 147 mm. ; deep black, 

 a pale spot between calli which extends upon collar, narrow basal 

 margin of disk white, with sinuate margin bordering the black; 

 lower pleural margin and small spot at top of coxal cleft white; 

 disk clothed with rather prominent black hairs, those arising from 

 pale areas are likewise pale, sparsely intermixed with sericeous 

 tomentose pubescence which takes ground color, most prominent 



