1916] Near die Species of Paracalocoris 383 



with reddish-yellow to clear reddish. Antennee as in typical variety 

 sometimes paler, last joint sometimes almost wholly fusco-piceous. 

 Legs and under surface as in typical variety but lighter. 



Beltsville, Md., July 4, 1915. On Psedera quinquefolia, 

 W. L. McAtee, 1 9, (type), (M.). 



Haverstraw, N. Y., July 4, 1897, 1 9 , (N. M.). 



Staten Id., N. Y., August 17, W. T. Davis, 1 cf , (D.). 



Beltsville, Md., June 14, 1914, 1 9 , W. L. McAtee, same 

 date as type, 4 9,1 cf , W. L. McAtee, (M.). 



Washington, D. C, June 23, 1905, Icf, 1 9, O. Heidemann 

 (H.). 



Illegible locality, 2 9, (N. M.). 



Paracalocoris colon var. colonus n. var. 



Length 5.5-7 mm.; length of thorax 1.1-1.4 mm., width of thorax: 

 front .76-. 96 mm.; back 1.76-2.1 mm.; length of antennal joints: first 

 .93-1 mm.; second 2.06-2.2 mm., third .8-.806mm.; fourth .903-1 mm. 



Head testaceous, with usual herring bone pattern and some blotches, 

 pale fuscous to fuscous; eyes reddish testaceous, blotched or clouded 

 with same color. Antennse about as in typical variety, first joint in 

 particular sometimes darker. In distinctly marked forms first joint 

 may be yellowish spotted, and pale yellowish part of second joint 

 broken by a wide pale fuscous band. 



Thorax red-brown to fusco-piceous or with clouding or more definite 

 transverse marking behind apical stricture, and broad vittae from discal 

 spots to hind margin fuscous or fusco-piceous. Area laterad of these 

 vittae sometimes also of same color. Areas in front of and sometimes 

 surrounding discal spots, spots along median line and often elsewhere, 

 yellowish-testaceous . 



Scutellum fuscous to fusco-piceous, usually with median vitta or 

 traces of it at least apically, extreme apex, and submarginal vitt^ or 

 traces thereof pale yellowish. 



Hemelytra reddish-brown to fusco-piceous with scattered pale 

 yellowish spots (tending to be longitudinally elongate), especially 

 numerous near and in cuneus. In extreme forms these agglomerated 

 into patches along cubitus; clavus usually only slightly marked. Cuneus 

 more reddish than any other part of hemelytra. Membrane vitreous 

 with fuscous clouding to almost black; apex of corium fuscous to fusco- 

 piceous. 



Legs more heavily marked than in preceding varieties; femora 

 irrorate with or largely reddish to fusco-piceous, spotted with yellowish; 

 tibiae also yellow spotted and tending to have two dark and two pale 

 annuli; tarsi darker toward tips. Under surface variegated with 

 yellowish and fuscous; three dark and two light bands on side of head, 

 under side pale fuscous; sides of prothorax with 2 narrow pale bands, 

 each bordered on both sides by darker color, the lower at least repre- 



