1^16] Nearctic Species of Paracalocoris 377 



Paracalocoris adustus n. sp. 



Length Smm., length of thorax 1.46 mm.; width of thorax, front, 

 .8 mm., back 2.2 mm.; length of antenna! joints : first 1.6 mm • second 

 2.53 mm.; third 1.16 mm.; fourth 1.1 mm. 



Color an almost uniform reddish brown, a little lighter on cuneus 

 and lower surface and inclining to fuscous on antennae, tibise and inner 

 margm of elytra; membrane dusky. Short pale vellow hairs abundant 

 on Upper surface, except membrane. 



Lakehurst, N. J., June 13, 1908, 1 9 (Type), Wm T 

 Davis (D.). 



Paracalocoris hawleyi H. H. Knight, n. sp. 

 Elongate and more slender than P. colon. Color, fusco-piceous 

 to piceous, rubiginous in immature specimens, with outer margin of the 

 hemelytra sordid hyaline or pale yellowish and cuneus reddish 

 Pubescence more sparse and not noticeably golden yellow, as in P 

 colon. Total length 6 mm. 



&. Head: Eyes and face dark brownish to black; posterior part 

 of the eyes, a semicircular mark between and in front of the eyes nearly 

 .lommg across the vertex, pale to orange-red. Width of head across the 

 eyes, l.OSmm., width between eyes, .51mm., length of dorsal aspect 

 .6 mm. Rostrum reaching to posterior margin of the hind coxee, amber 

 brown or fuscous, two basal segments more or less pale at apex- two 

 apical segments darker. Antennas: Segment 1, length 1.37 inm.. 

 reddish black, densely hairy with a few scattering spines which stand 

 out from the partly decumbent hairs; segment II, length 2.2 mm., 

 thicker on apical half, brownish black with fine pubescence; segment IIl[ 

 length 1 mm., blackish, pale at the base, with very fine silvery pubes- 

 cence; segment IV, length 1.19 mm., like the preceding, onh^" slightly 

 more slender. 



Pronotum: Length 1.14mm., width of base l.SSmm.', apex .82 mm • 

 color fusco-piceous, sometimes with apical half yellowish; front, sides 

 and a very narrow margin extending around base of pronotum,' pale- 

 two jet-black, opaque, sub-excavated spots, one behind each callus' 

 with a pale area bordering the outer margin of each. Scutellum fusco- 

 piceous with a pale median, longitudinal line or trace thereof, some 

 specimens having this line produced on the pronotum. 



Hemelytra: Greatest width 2.02 mm.; clavus fusco-piceous as is 

 that part of the corium inside of the cubital vein; corium exterior to 

 the cubitus, pale yellowish, sometimes tinged with orange; cuneus 

 reddish orange with basal and narrow outer margin paler; m'embrane 

 and veins fuscous, with a clear spot along the margin near the apex 

 of the cuneus. 



Legs fusco-piceous, with small pale yellowish to reddish spots on the 

 femora especially near the apices; hind tibia with two pale rings, some- 

 times not distinct, the larger taking up of the apical fourth; tarsi pale. 



