No. 34-] HEMIPTERA OF CONNECTICUT: LYGAEIDAE. 729 



antennae have the basal and terminal segment dark brown, the 

 second and third, pale ferrugineous. All femora except their 

 apices are piceous, the tibia pale ; the swollen fore femora of the 

 male have but a single tooth. Measures about 3.5 mm. long. 



It is another ground species likely to be taken sifting among 

 dead leaves. 



Georgetown, 23 Aug., 1910 (Am. Mus. Nat. Hist). 



Cnemodus Herrich-Schaeffer. 



C. mavortius (Say). (PL xvi, 28.) 



Het. New Harm., 19, 1832. 



An elongated species, 9 mm. long, with piceous-black body and 

 long pale legs. It is chiefly characterized by the elongate and often 

 inflated fore-lobe of the pronotum, which is at least three times as 

 long as, and most often wider than the posterior lobe. The costal 

 margins of the hemelytra are pale. The eyes are not in contact 

 with the pronotum but set mid-way between base of head and tip 

 of antenniferous tubercles. Ocelli are wanting. The antennae 

 are long, with the basal segment extended much more than half 

 beyond tip of head, basally pale with the fourth segment 

 embrowned. The elongate fore femora are armed with an outer 

 row of five or six strong teeth and an inner row of five or six 

 smaller teeth. The fore tibia of the male is strongly bent near 

 base and armed behind middle with a strong, curved tooth. This 

 species occurs most common in the brachypterous form with mem- 

 brane poorly developed, scarcely extended beyond the apex of the 

 corium. 



Lyme, 12 March, 191 1 (A. B. C.) ; South Meriden, 18 May, 1915, 

 (H. L. J.) (H. M. P.). 



Pseudocnemodus Barber. 



P. canadensis (Provancher). 



Pet. Faune Ent. Can., iii, 84, 1886. 



Resembles a small C. mavortius Say, but it is pale castaneous- 

 brown in place of black, with the humeral angles, costal margins of 

 the hemelytra, antennae and legs for the most part, stramineous- 

 yellow. The fore lobe of the pronotum less often inflated, is 

 relatively shorter than in the preceding species and is not demarked 

 from the anterior lobe by an impressed line. The antennae have 

 the apical half of the third and all of the fourth segment 

 embrowned. The legs have the apices of the femora embrowned ; 

 the incrassate fore femora armed with two rows of weaker spines. 

 The strong fore tibial spine of the male is placed before the middle. 

 The brachypterous form is also here the most common, with the 

 membrane not extended beyond apical angle of the corium. 

 Measures about 6 mm. long. 



