Deraeocoris (Heteroptera, Miridae) 149 



genital clasper with the dorsal horn longer and the internal arm differently 

 shaped from that of bullatus. 



$. Length 4.6 mm. Head: width 1.05 mm., vertex .54 mm., length .57 

 mm. ; base of vertex raised into a slight carina, separated by a groove from 

 the arched and broadly exposed collum ; pale to yellowish, geminate mark on 

 basal half and slenderly at apex of tylus blackish. Rostrum, length 1.88 mm., 

 attaining posterior margins of middle coxae, brownish, becoming piceous on the 

 apical half. 



Antennae: segment I, length .38 mm., brownish, darker at apex; II, 1.25 

 mm., tapering gradually thicker from base toward apex, attaining the thickness 

 of segment I, pale to duskj' pubescent, exserted hairs about equaling greatest 

 thickness of segment; III, .51 mm.; IV, .2)7 mm.; last two segments slender, 

 blackish. 



Pronotum: length 1.11 mm., width at base 2.04 mm., anterior angles 1.03 

 mm., collar .77 mm. ; structurally and in color very similar to bullatus, the disk 

 and calli slightly more flattened. Scutellum convex and smooth, pale, brownish 

 black or piceous each side of median line but scarcely separating the pale at 

 basal angles from that at apex. Sternum and pleura yellowish brown, opaque ; 

 ostiolar peritreme pale yellowish. 



Hemelytra : width 2.57 mm., very similar to bullatus but more coarsely 

 punctate : pale, small spot at base, transversely at apex and connected with spot 

 at middle of corium, invading the embolium at apex, blackish. Cuneus as in 

 bullatus. Membrane nearly as in bullatus but paler on the apical half, more 

 nearly fumate. 



Legs: pale to yellowish; femora biannulate on the apical half with reddish 



brown ; tibiae triannulate with 



brownish black and with a spot on 

 the knee ; tarsi dark brownish, 

 blackish at apex, claws brownish. 

 Venter: dark brownish to pice- 

 ous, paler at the lateral margins 

 and at base, shining, pale pubes- 

 cent; genital claspers (fig. 21) 



Fig. 21. Deraeocoris convexidus, male geni- distinrtive nf the >;nprip<; 



tal claspers. a, left clasper, lateral aspect: "li'UnLUve oi tne species. 

 b, internal arm of left clasper; c, right clasp- 9- Length 5.5 mm., width 2.9 



er, lateral aspect. ... , , , 



mm., very similar to the male but 

 more robust ; antennae very similar to those of the female bullatus. 



Holotype: $ May, Los Angeles County, California (Heidemann 

 coll.) ; Cornell University collection. Allotype: same data as the type. 



Deraeocoris fulgidus (Van Duzee) 



1914 Camptobrochis fulgidus Van Duzee, Trans. San Diego Soc. Nat. Hist., ii, 



p. 21. 

 1917 Camptobrochys (Mycterocoris) fulgidus \'an Duzee, Cat. Hemip., p. 355. 



Length 5-6 mm. Ovate, convex, shining black, scutellum red, head rufo- 

 testaceous. 



5. Length 5 mm. Head: width 1.12 mm., vertex .57 mm., length .6 mm.; 



