SUBFAMILY II. — CAPSIN^E. 697 



Swannanoa, N. Car., July (Brimley). Ranges from Maryland 

 southwest to Texas. Variable to some extent in color. 



679 (980). Paracalocoris colon (Say), 1832, 25; I, 346. 



Grayish-brown or brownish-yellow, rather thickly clothed with fine 

 silky yellow hairs and usually more or less variegated with pale fuscous 

 and small yellow spots, the fuscous often forming large blotches on basal 

 half of pronotum, scutellum and clavus and along the inner margin of 

 corium; membrane fuscous, paler at middle, its veins yellow; legs dull 

 yellow, the apical third or more of femora and two rings on tibiae brown- 

 ish or blackish; under surface brownish with paler linear markings each 

 side. Joint 1 of antenna? brownish, spotted with yellow, one-fifth shorter 

 than pronotum, 2 twice the length of 1, colored as in key; 3 and 4 fus- 

 cous, very slender, 3 two-fifths the length of 2, one-fourth longer than 4. 

 Length, 5.8 — 6.5 mm. 



Described from and found throughout Indiana, but scarce, 

 June 3 — Aug. 30. Staten Island, N. Y. (Davis). Henderson, 

 Ky., May 25 (Marshall). Occurs on the foliage of Virginia 

 creeper, poison ivy and other shrubs in moist woodland. 

 Ranges from Ontario and New England west to Kansas and 

 Colorado. McAtee has described three color varieties, two of 

 which are fairly constant in hue. 



679a ( — ) . Paracalocoris colon castus McAtee, 1916, 382. 



Color a nearly uniform dull straw-yellow to pale reddish-brown with- 

 out paler spots; middle of scutellum and base of third antennal paler; 

 cuneus tinged with reddish. Length, 5.5 — 7 mm. 



Marion Co., Ind., June 19—30 (IV.S.B.). Staten Island, 

 N. Y., Aug. 17 (Davis). Ranges from New York to Maryland. 

 Occurs on willow. 



679b ( — ). Paracalocoris colon colonus McAtee, 1916, 383. 



Differs from typical colon in having joint 2 of antennae pale or 

 brownish on basal half, but without a distinctly paler ring next to the 

 blackish base; pronotum orange-red to fuscous, frequently vittate with 

 pale yellow; elytra dark reddish-brown to fusco-piceous, both they and 

 pronotum more or less spotted with yellow. Length, 5.5 — 6.5 mm. 



Marion, Knox and Floyd counties, Ind., June 8 — July 16. 

 Ranges from New England west to Minnesota and south to 

 New Jersey. A form of this in which the elytra are devoid of 

 yellow spots is var. amiculus McAtee. 



680 (982). Paracalocoris heidemanni Reuter, 1909, 40. 



General color pale orange-yellow to dark reddish-brown or mahogany- 

 red, thickly clothed with prostrate golden yellow hairs; head reddish- 

 yellow with diagonal lines each side, these usually darker; front margin 



