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renter: brownish black to piceous, pale pubescent; genital claspers (fig. 

 25) distinctive of the species. 



$. Length 6.6 mm., width 3.1 mm. ; very similar to the male in form 

 and coloration ; segment II, length 1.6 mm., slightly more slender than in the 

 male, gradually thickened on the apical half, length of exserted hairs slightly 

 greater than thickness of segment. 



Holotype: S August, 1906, Glen Sioux County, Nebraska (H. 

 G. Barber); author's collection. Allotype: taken with the type; col- 

 lection of H. G. Barber. Parafypcs: $ 125 taken with the types. 

 ARIZONA,— July 3, Flagstaff (H. S. Barber). $ 29 July 17, Wil- 

 liams (Barber & Schwarz). COLORADO,— ^2 July 21, Golden (W. 

 J. Gerhard). $ July 23. Pine (C. A. Hill). MONTANA,— 25 Sept. 

 11, Bear Paw Mountain (Uhler collection). NEW MEXICO,— 5 

 Aug. 13, Las Vegas (H. S. Barber). 



This species is named in honor of Mr. H. G. Barber who is known 

 for his excellent work on the Heteroptera and particularly the family 

 Lygaeidae. Mr. Barber is not certain of the tree from which the 

 specimens of this species were collected but thinks that it must have 

 been pine. 



Deraeocoris barberi lignipes new variety 



Not differing structurally from the typical barberi: dorsum more uniformly 

 stained with dark brownish ; legs uniformly dark brownish black, shining. 



Holotype: S July 29, Huachuca JNIountains, Arizona (H. G. Bar- 

 ber) ; author's collection. 



Deraeocoris barberi hesperus new subspecies 



Structurally very close to if not identical with the typical barberi. but differs 

 at least in the general color aspect ; calli outlined with piceous and forming a 

 recurved hook at the latero-posterior margins, marked with pale or brown on 

 the disk of each callus ; basal half of femora pale, tibiae triannulate with pale, 

 membrane clear, a fumate cloud on the apical half. 



6. Length 5.9 mm. Head: width 1.17 mm., vertex .54 mm., length .71 

 mm.; median line of front and an arc at each side touching the eye pale; broad 

 arc composed of short transverse piceous bars each side of the pale median line 

 and joining above, a piceous spot projecting from each eye upon the vertex. 

 Rostrum, length 2.48 mm., reaching to near posterior margins of hind coxae, 

 yellowish to brownish. 



Antennae: similar to barberi. brownish to piceous, darker toward apex of 

 segment II, segments III and IV blackish. 



Pronotum : structurally very similar to barberi; testaceous to brownish, 

 front margin and anterior angles largely pale ; calli outlined with piceous, form- 

 ing a recurved hook at the latero-posterior margins, disk irregularly marked 

 with pale or brownish, a piceous line through the middle of each ; anterior 



