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anteriorly, xypluis reddish ; margin of coxa! cavity anterior to coxal cleft very 

 prominent, flaring, narrow margin white. Scutcllum impunctate, convex and 

 polished, obscurely transversely wrinkled ; whitish, piceous medially at base 

 and extending to cover lateral areas of disk; mesoscutum brownish to piceous, 

 paler at lateral angles. Sternum and pleura reddish ; ostiolar peritreme white. 

 Hemdytra : width 2.68 mm., strongly convex, embolium arcuate from base 

 to apex, cuneus and membrane strongly deflexed ; coarsely and irregularly punc- 

 tate, punctures black, surrounded by piceous and frequently confluent ; clavus 

 largely pale, .piceous at apex and along margins ; corium broadly piceous at 

 apex and invading embolium. narrowly piceous at base, a larger patch at 

 middle which is rather broadly joined with the piceous distal area; embolium 

 largely pale, apex, slightly at middle, bordering the marginal vein and the 

 extreme lateral edge, piceous. Cuneus pale, the apical one-third piceous, punc- 

 tures infuscated. Membrane fuscous, a paler band bordering apices of areoles, 

 joining at middle and continuing medially between the large areoles, veins 

 piceous. 



femora uniformly piceous, pale at the apices ; tibiae pale, triannu- 

 late with fuscous or piceous, an oblique 

 band at middle, less distinctly near base 

 and rather broadly but paler at apex ; tarsi 

 pale fuscous, slightly darker at apices ; 

 clothed with fine inconspicuous pale pubes- 

 cence. 



J'eiiter: reddish to piceous, polished, finely 

 pale pubescent: genital claspers (fig. 23) 

 distinctive of the species. 



9. Length 5.4 mm., width 3 mm. ; larger 

 and more robust than the male but very 

 similar in coloration. 



Legs 



manitou l/ooR 



Fig. 23. Deraeocoris manitou, 

 male genital claspers. a, left clasp- 

 er, lateral aspect ; b, internal arm 

 of left clasper ; c, right clasper, lat- 

 eral aspect. 



Plesiotypc: $ July 19, Manitou, Colorado (E. P. Van Duzee) ; 

 holotype, (No. 713) collection of California Academy of Sciences. 

 Paratypes examined: COLORADO,— 29 July 25. Manitou (E. P. 

 Van Duzee) ; 39 July 17, 9 Aug. 7. Colorado Springs ; 9 July 25, Rifle. 

 NEW MEXICO,— 9 Aug. 1-15, Jemez Springs, alt. 6,400 ft. (Wood- 

 gate). Specimens examined: ARIZONA, — 39 June 18, Ashfork 

 (H. S. Barber). NEW- MEXICO,— 9 Aug. 10, 9 Aug. 16, Las Vegas 

 (Barber & Schwarz). 



The last two specimens mentioned represent the material which 

 Uhler (19Q4) had before him when describing the new genus Myctero- 

 coris and thus the genus was founded on a misidentification of his own 

 species, Deraeocoris ccracJiates. 



Deraeocoris manitou intermedius new variety 



Structurally not differing from the typical man it on but having a different 

 color aspect ; disk of pronotum black, slenderly margined with pale, some- 



