No. 34-] HEMIPTERA OF CONNECTICUT I MIRIDAE. 639 



Male: Length 6.7mm., width 2.2mm. Very similar to corti- 

 tectus only larger ; nearly the size of onustus but more slender and 

 paler in color ; corium with a longitudinal pale area which extends 

 upon base of cuneus without interruption at the cubitus ; flagellum 

 and right genital clasper distinctive of the species (fig. 149 : 4). 



Female: Very similar to the male only slightly more robust. 



Occurs on the bark of Carpinus caroliniana. 



New York. 

 *P. salicis Knight. 



Bull. Brook. Ent. Soc, xv, 56, 1920. 



Male: Length 6 mm., width 2.1 mm. Very similar to eximius 

 but distinctly brownish above ; fuscous coloration of the hemelytra 

 interspersed with brownish maculations ; antennal segment ii more 

 distinctly pale fuscous, becoming dark only at apex and next to 

 the pale basal annulation ; membrane paler on the central area and 

 with a median pale ray extending to apex; genital claspers and 

 flagellum distinctive of the species (fig. 149: 13). 



Female: Very similar to the male in size and coloration. 



Breeds on willow, chiefly Salix nigra, where the species appears 

 to be predaceous on soft-bodied insects living on that tree. 



Branford, 15 July, 1904 (H. W. W.) ; Litchfield, 22 July, 1920 (P. G.). 

 Phytocoris husseyi Knight, new species. 



Male: Length 5.1 mm., width 2mm. Head: Width 1.04mm., 

 vertex .33 mm. ; pale to yellowish, median line of front and two or 

 three incomplete oblique lines at each side reddish to blackish ; 

 lower part of front, base of tylus, lower half of tylus except for 

 small spot each side by lora, about base of antenna, basal half of 

 juga, dorsal margin of lora, and bucculae, reddish to black, gula 

 and areas between the black, white. Rostrum, length 2.26 mm., 

 reaching upon fourth ventral segment, pale, apex blackish. 



Antennae : Segment i, length 1.18 mm., deep black, dorsal aspect 

 with two large and six or seven small white spots, setae pale to 

 blackish; ii, 2.4mm., black, pale at base, somewhat brownish at 

 middle of dorsal aspect; hi, 1.41mm., black, pale at base; iv, 

 1.2 mm., black. 



Pronotum: Length .91 mm., width at base 1.6 mm. ; nearly as 

 in erectus but calli and between, more yellowish. Scutellum pale 

 to yellowish, with heavy oblique black mark on apical half each 

 side of median line, brownish color extending cephalad from the 

 black marks. Sternum black, pale area extending behind lower 

 white margin of propleura ; pleura black, ventral margin of 

 epimeron and the ostiolar peritreme white. 



Hemelytra: Nearly as in erectus but with more black, disk of 

 clavus blackish but broken by paler irrorations of brownish and 

 fuscous ; clothed with erect short blackish hairs and intermixed 

 with tufts of white sericeous tomentose pubescence, more nearly 

 like buenoi in this respect. Cuneus yellowish to dusky, apical half 



