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CONNECTICUT GEOL. AND NAT. HIST. SURVEY. 



[Bull. 



Female: Length 4.7 mm., width 1.9 mm.; more robust than the 

 male but very similar in coloration. 



Holotype: Male, 8 Aug., 1910, East River, Conn. (C. R. Ely) ; author's 

 collection. Allotype : taken with the type. Paratypes : Females (4) , July- 

 Sept, 1910, type locality (C. R. Ely). District of Columbia — Female, 12 

 July, 1909, Washington (O. Heidemann). New York — Female, 10 Sept., 

 1917, Syracuse (C. J. Drake). 



Phytocoris caryae Knight, new species. 



Male: Length 5.3 mm., width 1.74 mm. Head : Width .93 mm., 

 vertex .28 mm. ; yellow, small spot behind dorsal margin of each 

 eye, irregular large spot each side of front, and spot on dorsal 

 margin or lora, orange colored ; front and vertex bearing promi- 

 nent pale hairs. Rostrum, length 2.2 mm., reaching upon fifth 

 abdominal segment, pale yellowish, brownish black at apex. 



Antennae: Segment i, length 1.14mm., yellow, anterior aspect 

 with small orange spots, largest one just before apex, setae pale to 

 dusky; ii, 2.46mm., uniformly pale yellow; hi, 1.5 mm., yellow; 

 iv, 1. 1 6 mm., yellow, dusky at apex. 



Pronotum: Length .81 mm., width at base 1.44 mm.; greenish 

 yellow, with four orange stripes on disk, sometimes joining 

 basally; calli pale, collar with broad orange spot each side of 

 median line and extending to touch callus ; propleura with small 

 orange ray behind lower half of coxal cleft; clothed with pale 

 yellowish pubescent hairs, a few dusky hairs on basal margin. 



ven 



usfus 



Fig. 145. Phytocoris venustus 

 Knight, — male genital claspers, 



(b) right clasper, lateral aspect, 



(c) flagellum. Greatly enlarged. 

 Drawing by Dr. H. H. Knight. 



caryae 



Fig. 146. Phytocoris caryae 

 Knight, — male genital claspers, 



(b) right clasper, lateral aspect, 



(c) flagellum. Greatly enlarged. 

 Drawing by Dr. H. H. Knight. 



Scutellum greenish yellow, an oblique orange mark each side of 

 median line at middle. Sternum and pleura pale yellowish. 



Hemelytra: Embolar margins very slightly arcuate; pale to 

 greenish yellow ; mottled with fusco-orange, darkest on clavus and 

 irrorate with large irregular greenish yellow spots, apical one-fifth 

 of corium nearly uniformly greenish yellow, embolium with a few 

 scattering reddish orange spots ; tip of clavus with dusky spot and 

 beset with prominent black hairs ; cuneus yellowish translucent. 



