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Fig. 8. Deracocoris fasciolus, male genital claspers. 

 a, left clasper, lateral aspect ; b, internal arm of left 

 clasper ; c, right clasper, lateral aspect. 



blackish on the apical half, the front and middle pair paler on the ventral sur- 

 face or the bands even obsolete above ; tibiae with spot on knee and two annu- 

 lations on basal half blackish, frequently the apices also darkened; tarsi dark 

 brownish to blackish, darker at apices. 



Frn^t??-: dark brownish 



to piceous, shining ; gen- 

 ital claspers (fig. 8) dis- 

 tinctive of the species, 

 the left clasper differing 

 very slightly from tliat 

 of bor calls, but the much 

 more bent and different- 

 ly shaped rig^ht clasper is 

 distinctive. 



$. Length 6.5 mm., 

 width 3.1 mm.; very similar to the male in coloration but usually not so dark; 

 segment II, length 1.63 mm., slender and only slightly thicker at apex, black, 

 testaceous near middle but more broadly black at base than apex, clothed with 

 fine pale hairs, length of several equal to more than twice the thickness of 

 segment; paler specimens may have the front of head and calli more broadly 

 brownish. 



Holotypc: $ July 8, Ithaca, New York (H. H. Knight) ; author's 

 collection. Allotype: same data as the type. Paratypes: NEW YORK, 

 —2? July 8, $ 29 July 26, ? July 23, Ithaca; $ June 30, 2$ July 5, 

 5 Aug. 10, 5 Aug. 13, Batavia (H. H. Knight). 9 June, $ July 2, 

 Ithaca (W. H. Wellhouse), reared on Crataegus. $ July 26, Cran- 

 berry Lake; 5 Aug. 1-7, Wanakena (C. J. Drake). ILLINOIS,— 9 

 June 29, Willow Springs (W. J. Gerhard). MAINE,— 5 July 12, 

 9 July 28, Orono (C. W. Johnson). 9, "Me." (Uhler collection). 

 MASSACHUSETTS,— 5 Aug. 8, Chester (C. W. Johnson). MICH- 

 IGAN,— 5 July 11, North Muskegon (C. A. Hill). $ Aug. 28, 

 Marquette. MINNESOTA,— 9 July 20, Gray Cloud Island; 9 Aug. 

 18, Elkhorn Creek, Carlton Co. ; 39 Aug. 30, Two Harbors ; 9 Aug. 20, 

 Beaver Bay (H. H. Knight). \$ 19 July 11, Becker Co. (A. A. 

 Nichol). OREGON,— 29 Aug. 12, 29 Aug. 17, Portland (A. A. 

 Nichol). WISCONSIN,— 39 Aug. 12, Salmo, Bayfield Co. (W. L. 

 McAtee). CANADA: BRITISH COLUMBIA,— 3 5 19 July 13, 

 Kaslo (A. N. Caudell). NOVA SCOTIA,— 9 Aug. 12, Truro (R. 

 Matheson). 9 July 26, $ July 28, 9 Aug. 11, 5 Aug. 19, Smith's Cove 

 (W. H. Brittain).' ONTARIO,— <? July 14, New Castle (L. Caesar), 

 "on pear and apple." 3<5 39 Aug. 6, Parry Sound (H. S. Parish). 

 QUEBEC,— 25 19 July 22, Lacolle (G. A. Moore). 



At Batavia the writer found this species on apple trees always 

 closely associated with the rosy aphid, Aphis sorbi Kaltenbach. The 



