SUBFAMILY II. — CAPSINjE. 695 



forms is referred to the papers of McAtee and Knight above 

 cited. 



675 (912). Paracalocoris incisus (Walker), 1873, 92. 



Elongate-oval. Dark fuscous-brown to black; head with a vague pale 

 spot each side of base of vertex; eyes brown with a pale curved line be- 

 hind and beneath; pronotum fuscous or blackish with a wide median 

 orange-red cross-bar, this usually widened on sides to cover side margins 

 behind the collar and with median spur projected backward, this some- 

 times extending onto scutellum and dividing the black of basal half of 

 pronotum into two large spots (P. externus scissus Knight) ; scutellum 

 either wholly black (P. externus totus Knight) or orange-red with dark 

 side margins (P. verus Knight) ; elytra wholly black, the membrane fus- 

 cous; legs black or fuscous, the basal halves of femora sometimes orange- 

 red; tarsi fuscous-brown or paler; antenna? black with white apical seg- 

 ment, the basal joint sometimes with an orange base. Joint 1 of antennae 

 longer than pronotum, 2 twice as long as 1, 3 slightly longer and dis- 

 tinctly stouter than 4. Pronotum and elytra thinly clothed with very 

 fine grayish appressed hairs. Length to tip of membrane, 7.5 — 8 mm. 



Ormond, Dunedin, Bassenger and Lake Wales, Fla., Dec. 19 

 — April 19. Numerous examples were taken from foliage of 

 oak and bay along the margins and paths of dense moist ham- 

 mocks. Easily known from our other species by the pale fourth 

 antennal, lack of discal black spots and peculiar markings of 

 pronotum and scutellum. The P. verus Knight Ms. and the 

 variety P. externus totus Knight Ms. I swept on Dec. 19 from a 

 branch of the same oak and they are mere color forms of the 

 same species. The var. scissus Knight Ms., taken at Ormond 

 April 15, differs only in having the median pale ray of prono- 

 tum prolonged backward to apex of scutellum, thus dividing the 

 black area of both the basal half of pronotum and scutellum 

 into two parts. According to China, who compared two of my 

 specimens with Walker's type from St. John's Bluff, Fla., the 

 typical incisus is the form with median pale ray of pronotum 

 extending almost to base, and scutellum orange-red with black 

 side margins, or the P. verus Knight Ms. China states that the 

 C. externus H.-S. of Walker (1873, 91), also from St. John's 

 Bluff, "is possibly another variety of incisus. It agrees very 

 well with the colored figure of H. Schaeffer's externus." The P. 

 novellus Blatch. (1926, 163) is a synonym of incisus. Whether 

 incisus in turn is the same as externus cannot be judged from 

 colored figures alone, but only by a comparison of the types. The 

 latter species is placed by Van Duzee as a variety of P. scrupeus 

 (Say). McAtee (1916, 366) states that in his opinion it is not 



