No. 34-] HEMIPTERA OF CONNECTICUT I MIRIDAE. 641 



Female: Length 5.5 mm., width 2 mm. Very similar to the 

 male in coloration but in form slightly more robust. 



East River, Sept., 1910 (C. R. E.) ; New Canaan, 14 Sept., 1905 

 (W. E. B.). 



P. obtectus Knight. 



Bull. Brook. Ent. Soc, xv, 58, 1920. 



Male: Length 5.5 mm., width 1.85 mm. Very similar to 

 eximius but slightly smaller and more slender; hemelytra more 

 uniformly grayish translucent, not distinctly marked with fuscous 

 at apex of corium ; front transversely striate with fuscous ; scutel- 

 lum chiefly brownish black, irregularly maculated with paler, 

 median line slenderly pale but irregularly invaded with darker 

 color; genital claspers and flagellum (fig. 149: 21) distinctive of 

 the species. 



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



New York. 



Key to Species of Phytocoris, Group III. 



1. Hemelytra rather uniformly rufescent, embolium and cuneus yel- 



lowish translucent mundus 



Hemelytra not uniformly rufescent 2 



2. Hemelytra yellowish to fulvous, clavus not darker than corium 3 

 Hemelytra more nearly fuscous than yellowish, irregularly tinged 



with reddish, clavus darker than outer margin of corium 5 



3. Femora with paler maculae very small, nearly obsolete ; pale 



yellowish, darkened with fulvous on outer half of clavus and 

 inner half of corium ; cuneus yellowish translucent, reddish 



yellow apically fulvus 



Femora with pale maculae distinct, but if not, then with inner half 

 of cuneus distinctly roseous 4 



4. Hemelytra uniformly yellowish brown translucent, sometimes 



tinged with reddish at base of cuneus ; scutellum uniformly 



yellowish to reddish, never paler on median line or apex 



uniformis n. sp. 

 Hemelytra fulvous to reddish on inner half of corium, inner half 

 of cuneus roseous ; scutellum with fulvous each side of middle, 

 median line and apex distinctly paler diversus 



5. Hind femora fusco-reddish, with distinct small white irrorations 



but never forming a distinct subapical band conspersipes 



Hind femora fuscous, with small yellowish maculae but dorsal 

 surface with a rather broad subapical band or transverse pale 

 spot pinicola 



P. mundus Reuter. 



Acta Soc. Sci. Fenn., xxxvi, No. 2, 18, 1909. 



Length 4.2 mm., width 1.6 mm. Hemelytra and scutellum 

 rather uniformly rufescent, embolium and cuneus yellowish trans- 

 lucent ; membrane uniformly pale fumate, veins yellowish. 



Male: Head: Width .91 mm., vertex .37mm. Antennae: Seg- 

 ment i, length .61 mm., uniformly yellowish, dusky pubescent and 

 with seven or eight setae; ii, 1.7mm., blackish, more yellowish at 



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