372 Annals Entomological Society of America [Vol. IX, 



Paracalocoris scrupeus var. diops n. var. 



Coloration as in typical variety except that scutellum is entirely 

 fusco-piceous, and thorax of same color except for yellow patches 

 laterad of discal spots, which extend irregular projections toward hind 

 margin. There are faint pale points also along median line. 



1 d^ Lakehurst, N. J., June 30. Wm. T. Davis. Type (H.) 



Paracalocoris scrupeus var. percursus n. var. 



A pale variety; head pale testaceous, an oval patch of dark herring 

 bone markings between bases of antennae, which is traversed by a pale 

 vitta extending forward over tylus; patch on side of latter and stripe 

 from front of eye to tylus shining light brown. Antennae testaceous, 

 first joint sprinkled with reddish brown or fuscous markings; second 

 joint with same color varying in extent at base and apex; third and 

 fourth joints more or less broadly tipped with same. 



Thorax with a median percurrent area of varying extent pale 

 testaceous; remainder of upper surface more or less fuscous irrorate 

 or vittate. 



Scutellum pale testaceous, median percurrent area clear; remainder 

 with fuscous markings which tend to be arranged in two pairs of vitta, 

 one set paralleling median clear area and the other lying on lateral 

 margins of scutellum. 



Hemelytra yellow-brown (hazel), clavus narrowly edged internally 

 ■with black ; cuneus yellowish red (rufous) ; membrane dusky with clearer 

 . areas. 



General color beneath pale testaceous; the series of markings along 

 :sides which in the typical variety contrast with the ground color, here 

 ;are of that color, but are set off by more or less fuscous edgings. Legs 

 testaceous, fuscous irrorate. 



In this variety the pilosity of hind tibiae is rather sparse ; the 

 first joint of antenna also is consistently though slightly shorter 

 than thorax; hence the variety is not so closely linked to 

 scrupeus as are the others. For the present, however, it seems 

 best to give it the status here assigned. The form is easily 

 recognized by the broad pale marking percurrent over head, 

 thorax and scutellum. 



Plummers Island, Md., June 7, 1914, W. L. McAtee. 

 1 d^ Type (M.). 



Plummers Island, Md., June 30, 1907, A. K. Fisher. 1 c? (M.). 



Four-mile Run, Va., May 31, 1914, Alex. Wetmore. 1 d" (M.). 



District of Columbia, 1 9 (N. M.). 



