No. 34-] HEMIPTERA OF CONNECTICUT: MIRIDAE. 653 



apex and margins flecked with reddish, a prominent fusco-reddish 

 spot on corio-membranal margin; clothed with yellow pubescent 

 hairs, nearly fuscous on ante-apical area of corium. Membrane 

 nearly pale, marmorate with pale fuscous, darkest within areoles 

 and spot on middle, veins dusky yellowish at apex of areoles. 



Legs : Pale to yellowish, apical half of femora flecked with 

 bright red, larger spots on posterior pair; tibial spines fuscous, 

 hind pair with small reddish spot at base of spines although 

 obsolete apically; tips of tarsi dusky. 



Venter: Pale greenish yellow; genital claspers and flagellum 

 distinctive of the species (fig. 146). 



Female: Length 5.2 mm., width 1.9 mm.; more robust than the 

 male but very similar in coloration. 



Breeds on Carya sp. 



Holotype: Male, 30 July, 1916, Batavia, N. Y. (H. H. Knight) ; author's 

 collection. Allotype : same data as the type. Paratypes : Males and females 

 (24), taken with the types on hickory. 



P. puella Reuter. 



Ofv. Kongl. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Forh., xxxii, No. 9, 69, 1876. 



Female: Length 4.9mm., width 1.9mm. Head: Width 

 .86 mm., vertex .36 mm. ; pale, mark each side of collum and 

 extending upon collar, irregular arc each side of front, base of 

 lora, and dorsal half of bucculae, orange colored. Rostrum, length 

 2.26 mm., extending upon fifth ventral segment, pale, blackish at 

 apex. 



Antennae: Segment i, length 1.26mm., pale, indistinctly dotted 

 with orange on anterior aspect; ii, 2.8mm., pale yellowish; iii, 

 1.49mm., yellowish; iv, 1.28mm., yellowish to dusky. 



Pronotum: Length .78 mm., width at base 1.4 mm.; pale, disk 

 with four orange stripes, paler forms with stripes broken at 

 middle, anterior angles with orange stripe which extends upon 

 collar ; propleura with orange ray across lower half of coxal cleft 

 and extending to near posterior margin. Scutellum pale, with an 

 oblique orange vitta each side of apical half. 



Hemelytra : Pale, rather uniformly reticulate with orange, 

 cuneus with red ; pale yellowish pubescent and intermixed with 

 prominent white sericeous pubescence. Membrane pale, areoles 

 infuscated but more conspurcate within apical half, veins yellowish, 

 pale at apex of areoles. 



Legs : Pale, front tibiae with two nearly obsolete orange-yellow 

 bands ; hind femora reticulately marked with red on apical half 

 but divided at middle of apical half by pale annulus, fuscous hairs 

 arising from the red marks. 



Venter : Pale, tinged with red near each spiracle. 



Male: Length 5 mm., width 1.54 mm. Suggestive of confluens 

 but with the dorsum uniformly bright red, calli pale, basal angles 

 and apex of scutellum yellowish to pale orange ; membrane pale 



