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nearly obsolete ; hind tibiae with small red marks near base, tips of 

 tarsi fuscous. 



Venter: White beneath, latero-dorsal margin deep red, each 

 segment with small spot of red laterally on the white ; eighth seg- 

 ment and base of genital segment dark f usco-reddish ; genital 

 claspers and flagellum distinctive (fig. 144). 



Other specimens which apparently belong to this species have 

 the membrane rather distinctly conspurcate with fuscous. The 

 above description and figures of genitalia are drawn from the type 

 specimen, male, 6 July, 1890, Washington, D. C. (O. Heidemann), 

 United States National Museum collection. 



East River, 5 Aug., 1908 (C. R. E.) ; New Haven, 24 June, 191 1 

 (A. B.C.). 



*Phytocoris venustus Knight, new species. 



Male: Length 4.5 mm., width 1.6 mm. Head: Width .86 mm., 

 vertex .28 mm. ; orange colored above, spot each side of vertex and 

 one at base, two spots on median line of front, and base of tylus 

 pale; lower half of head pale, base of juga, dorsal margin of lora, 

 and irregular band across middle of tylus, bright red. Rostrum, 

 length 2 mm., reaching upon sixth abdominal segment, yellowish, 

 blackish at apex. 



Antennae : Segment i, length .97 mm., pale yellowish, darker at 

 apex, setae pale; ii, .80 mm., uniformly yellowish; iii, 1.34 mm., 

 yellowish; iv, 1. 16 mm., yellowish. 



Pronotum : Length .68 mm., width at base 1.37 mm. ; pale, disk 

 with four orange stripes behind calli, outer stripe continuing 

 around callus to anterior angle and collar, small spot before callus 

 and collar orange red ; propleura with red ray across lower half of 

 coxal cleft but not extending to posterior margin; clothed with 

 moderately prominent yellowish pubescent hairs, more prominent 

 laterally and on scutellum and clavus. Scutellum orange-red to 

 deep red, basal angles and median line more or less pale. Sternum 

 and pleura pale, with red on meso- and meta-episternum, ostiolar 

 peritreme white. 



Hemelytra: Yellow, clavus and basal half of corium and 

 embolium, red but irrorate with pale yellowish, thus leaving a large 

 triangular area before cuneus nearly clear yellow ; embolium some- 

 times with small red flecks on apical half ; cuneus and tip of corium 

 extending beyond cuneal fracture, red, outer margin of cuneus 

 with four yellow spots, sometimes almost confluent. Membrane 

 fumate to pale fuscous, slightly paler on apical half, veins red, 

 usually pale at apex of areoles. 



Legs : Pale to yellowish, fore femora with red flecks apically, 

 hind femora reticulately marked with bright red, somewhat broken 

 at middle of apical half by yellowish area ; hind tibiae with reddish 

 spots near base. 



Venter : Yellowish, with red flecks along dorsal margin ; genital 

 claspers and flagellum distinctive of the species (fig. 145). 



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