Deraeocoris (Heteroptera, Miridae) 15.5 



pale annulus on the apical half, two narrow and poorly defined pale 

 annuli on the basal half, the pale band at middle of basal half usually 

 incomplete on the dorsal side . . fuhesccits Renter p. 167 



Hemelytra uniformly reddish brown, not darker on the apical half of 

 the corium than on the embolium ; hind tibiae triannulate with pale 



. pilosus n. sp. p. 16'.^ 



15. Pronotum, hemelytra and legs uniformly dark sepia brown or blackish, 

 the semitranslucent areas stained with brownish : hind tibiae usually 

 distinctly annulated with pale on the apical half .... 

 nigritulus n. n. (=|| nigritiis Reut.) p. 170 

 Pronotum usually fusco-grayish or black; hemelytra fuscous to black, 

 becoming paler in certain areas but not stained with brownish ; legs 

 brownish black, hind tibiae sometimes indistinctly aimulated with paler 

 on the apical half ; front coxae, xyphus, lower margins of propleura, 

 ostiolar area, gula, sides of tylus, juga and arcuated streak just 

 above on each side of front, pale . . albigulus n. sp. p. 171 



Deraeocoris manitou (\'an Duzee) 



1904 iMycterocoris cc radiates Uhler, Proc. U. S. Natl. AIus., xxvii, p. 358. 

 1920 Camptobrochys manitou Van Duzee, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., ser. 4, ix, 

 p. 355. 



Length 4.5-5 mm. Ovate, convex, dorsum glabrous, coarsely punctate ; 

 closely related to bullatus and convrxulus but differs in the type of claws ; more 

 ovate and robust than fencstratus; pale to testaceous and maculated with 

 piceous, callosities and punctures black. 



S. Length 4.5 mm. Head: width 1.03 mm., vertex .54 mm., length .71 

 mm. ; front moderately convex, polished, carina feebly developed ; collum ex- 

 posed, black ; yellowish and marked with brown and black, front each side of 

 median line transversely marked with six or seven fine brownish to blackish 

 lines; above base of antenna, bordering the front margin of eyes and projecting 

 on vertex, brownish to piceous ; slender pair of longitudinal lines on tylus, 

 base of genae, dorsal margins of lorae and bucculae, brownish to piceous, 

 frequently reddish on juga. Rostrum, length 1.85 mm., reaching to near hind 

 margins of middle coxae, yellowish brown, basal segment darker, the apical 

 segment piceous. 



Antennae: segment 1, length .35 mm., yellowish, a brownish line on the 

 dorsal side; II, length 1.14 mm., yellowish to brownish, apical one-fifth in- 

 fuscated, basal one-third dark brownish on the dorsal side; III, .45 mm., 

 blackish ; IV, .40 mm., blackish ; finely pale pubescent, length of hairs on seg- 

 ment II equal to little more than the thickness of segment. 



Pronotum: length 1.2 mm., width at base 2.05 mm.; anterior angles 105 

 mm., strongly rounded ; collar .71 mm., brownish ; disk deeply, irregularly, some- 

 times confluent but not densely punctate, strongly convex, lateral margins slen- 

 derly carinate, nearly straight, anterior and basal angles broadly rounded ; pale 

 yellowish, discal area each side of middle clouded with piceous ; calli black, 

 practically flat, joined at the anterior angles by a piceous arc; very finely and 

 sparsely pubescent at anterior angles; propleura yellowish, becoming reddish 



