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4. Compsocerocoris elegans, n. sp. (Tab. XXV. fig. 14.) 
Ochraceous ; basal joint of antenne annulated and mottled with brown; eyes fuscous; pronotum with the 
basal area broadly greenish, and behind the anterior collar somewhat greyish; clavus and the corium at 
claval area somewhat infuscated, the outer claval margin (excluding base) very bright castaneous; disk of 
corium greenish ; cuneus with the apex bright castaneous, and with a small darker spot near inner basal 
angle. Membrane dull obscure ochraceous, shaded with pale fuscous, especially at base. Legs ochraceous ; 
tibia outwardly and lineately fuscous ; apices of the tarsi fuscous. Body beneath ochraceous, more or less 
mottled with brownish. 
Long. 54 millim. 
Hab. Guatemata, San Gerénimo (Champion). 
5. Compsocerocoris annulicornis. 
Compsocerocoris annulicornis, Reuter, Ofv. Vet.-Ak. Férh. 1875, no. 9, p. 70. 
Ferruginous of more or less intense hue in different specimens; antenne with the basal joint thickly irrorated 
with pale ochraceous, second and third joints with their bases pale ochraceous; eyes fuscous ; pronotum 
with the basal margin narrowly obscure ochraceous, and inwardly bordered by a transverse series of small 
fuscous spots; scutellum with the apex obscure ochraceous; corium with the costal margin more or 
less spotted with ochraceous ; cuneus variable in hue, sometimes obscure ochraceous with the apex ferru- 
ginous, its inner or apical margin always spotted with ferruginous; legs ochraceous, femora (excluding 
bases) annulated and mottled with ferruginous. 
This appears to be a most protean and variable species, and the following notes refer 
to what I consider to be but different forms of the same. In all the specimens, however, 
the pronotum has the basal margin narrowly obscure ochraceous, inwardly bordered 
by a transverse series of small fuscous spots. 
Var. a. Kyes fuscous; second and third joints of the antenne with their bases and an annulation a little 
beyond middle pale ochraceous. Tibiew distinctly annulated. 
Var. 6. Second and third joints of the antennsw with their bases alone pale ochraceous. 
Var. c. Resembling var. 6, but with the eyes greyish. 
Var.d. Eyes greyish or fuscous; antennz as in preceding variety, colour pale and bright ferruginous ; pronotum 
sometimes with two small discal dark spots; the tibie either very indistinctly or non-annulated. 
Var. ¢. Resembling var. d, but with the corium, membrane, and cuneus largely irrorated with greyish. 
Var. f. Third joint of the antenne distinctly and broadly black at apex ; legs as in vars. d and e. 
Var. g. Antenne unicolorous, the second and third joints not pale ochraceous at base; tibiee as in the three 
preceding varieties. 
Long. 6 to 64 millim. 
Hab. North AMericA Texas!; GuvatemaLa, San Gerénimo, Zapote, Cerro Zunil, 
Quezaltenango, Pantaleon, Las Mercedes, Totonicapam, El Tumbador (Champion) ; 
Panama, Bugaba, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet (Champion). 
After a prolonged examination I can, at present, find no real specific differences 
among the above divergent forms, whose variation inter se is so great, that I feel little 
hesitation in placing them all under the cognomen of Reuter’s species ; and although 
but one specimen really appertains fully to the description of that species, yet that 
seems. so inseparably linked with the most extreme forms of the series, that their specific 
unity appears to be reasonably demonstrated, and I have treated them accordingly. Even 
the varietal characters given above do not at all adequately express the extremely protean 
