Deraeocoris (Heteroptera, M ridae) 151 



1. Dorsum heavily pubescent or hairy, at least with long hairs at anterior 



angles of the pronotum ......... 12 



Dorsum practically glabrous, at most only sparsely and finely pubescent 

 (not rubbed specimens), rarely with a few hairs at anterior angles 

 of pronotum ........... 2 



2. Form broad oval, strongly convex (width greater than or equal to at 



least one-half the length of the insect) ...... 3 



Form elongate (width not equal to one-half the length) ... 4 



3. Tibiae triannulate with fuscous ; disk of pronoturn more or less pale, 



becoming blackish on the basal half and sides ; scutellum with black spot 

 each side of the pale median line, but confluent at base ; apex of corium 

 and embolium broadly blackish, usually joined by large spot on middle 

 of corium, apical one-third of cuncus black ..... 



manitou Van D. p. 153 



Tibiae triannulate with fuscous ; disk of pronotum black, narrowly mar- 

 gined with pale ; scutellum black, basal angles and tip pale ; hemelytra 

 black, basal half of embolium, central portion of clavus, basal half of 

 cuneus, small spot near base of corium, and narrowly bordering basal 

 half of cubitus, irregularly pale, the punctures black 



iiiaiiitoii intcniicdiiis n. var. p. 154 



Tibiae pale, slightly darker at tips and indistinctly so at middle ; dorsum 

 entirely black ; head pale, genae, bucculae, margins of lorae, and gem- 

 inate mark on the tylus, piceous to black ..... 



manitou atraius n. var. p. 155 



4. Alembrane with the apical half heavily infuscated; pronotum and 



hemelytra usually blackish, in tenerel or pale specimens more or less 

 translucent but darkened with fuscous or brownish .... 7 

 Membrane with the apical half only slightly infuscated, more nearly 

 fumate or brownish ; dorsum more pallid, yellowish or reddish than 

 blackish, calli ferruginous or heavily lined with black around the mar- 

 gins and with one or two pale streaks on the disk of each callus . 5 



5. Membrane clear, a fumate cloud on the apical half; calli heavily mar- 



gined with brownish or black, forming a recurved hook at the latero- 

 posterior margins ; punctures infuscated, dorstmi lurid testaceous with 

 three darker areas on each hemelytron ...... 



barbcri licspcrus n. subsp. p. 159 

 Membrane uniformly fumate or brownish ; calli without a blackish re- 

 curved hook at the latero-posterior margins ; punctures mostly pel- 

 lucid, dorsum pallid to pale yellowish or reddish brown to reddish . 6 



6. Calli and pronotum reddish brown to ferruginous ; hemelytra yellow- 



ish translucid, immaculate ; cuneus reddish translucent ; scutellum 

 pale ........ ntbroclanis n. sp. p. 156 



Calli margined or lined with black ; corium pallid to yellowish, tinged 

 with brown ochre and reddish, opaque except for pellucid punctures ; 

 cuneus yellowish, opaqtie, the apex blackish ; scutellum vittate 



inwajo n. sp. p. 155 



7. (4) Antennae ($) with prominent exserted hairs on segment II, in 



length equal to three times the thickness of segment at middle ; { 6 ) 

 segment II as thick at the middle as on the apical half, length of ex- 



