Deraeocoris (Heteroi^tera, Miridae) 



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pale to ivory-white. Stcnuiiii and pleura black, opaque, a spot at dorsal 

 margin of meso- and the meta-episterna shining ; ostiolar peritreme white, be- 

 coming blackish above. 



Hcinclytra : width 2.68 mm., embolar margin moderately arcuate, slightly 

 sinuate on the basal half; moderately convex, rather coarsely black punctate; 

 pale to fuscous and black, more nearly black on apical half of corium and 

 embolium, slenderly white along the cubitus near base. Ciiiieiis moderately de- 

 flected, black, more or less pale on basal half, punctures black. Membrane 

 rather heavily infuscated, a pale spot bordering tip of cuneus. basal half of 

 areoles frequently somewhat paler, brachium and slightly invading the mem- 

 brane more heavily infuscated. 



Legs: black, tips of coxae and the trochanters paler; hind femora more or 

 less pale on dorsal face of the basal half, an obscure pale mark on dorsal 

 face just before apex; tibiae obscurely biannulate with pale; tarsi blackish, claws 

 very slightly cleft (fig. 2, B) but should not be confused with the type which 

 is deeply cleft near base ; arolia slender, erect, bristle-like, translucent, nearly 

 parallel but slightly converging at the very tips. 



I'eiiter: black and shining, pale 

 pubescent; genital claspers (fig. 

 27) distinctive of the species. 



$. Length 5.9 mm., width 2.9 

 mm., very similar to the male but 

 paler in color; the black arc each 

 side of front broken into trans- 

 verse bars; segment II, length 1.6 

 mm., slender, thickened on the 

 apical one-fourth, scarcely attain- 

 ing the thickness of segment I, 

 dusky pubescent, length of ex- 

 serted hairs only slightly greater than thickness of segment, black as in the 

 male; scutellum more broadly pale, the dark color frequently appearing as a 

 black vitta from base each side of median line ; femora more distinctly banded 

 with pale before the apex, tibiae distinctly biannulate with pale; venter chiefly 

 pale, a lateral row of spots, vagina exterior, and more or less on the ventral 

 and anterior margins of segments, black. 



Holotype: $ June 30, Ithaca, New York (H. TI. Knight); 

 author's collection. Allotype: .same data as the type. Paratvpes: CON- 

 NECTICUT,— 5 June 16, New Haven; $ July 22. Hartford (M. P. 

 Zappe). $ July 11, New Haven (W. E. Britton). DISTRICT OF 

 COLUMBIA,— 5 June 10, Rock Creek (O. Heideniann). MASSA- 

 CHUSETTS,— 35 July 18, Beach BluiT (H. M. Parshley). $ July 

 3, Danvers (C. W. Johnson). $ June 20, Natick (C. A. Frost). MIN- 

 NESOTA,— 39 Aug. 18, Elkhorn Creek, Carlton Co. (H. H. Knight), 

 on Pinus strohus. NEW HAMPSHIRE,— 1 5 1$ Mount Washing- 

 ton (Mrs. A. T. Slosson). ?, Pike, "feeding on Chcrnics" [no author- 

 ity]. NEW YORK,— 5 June 9, 5 29 June 13, 7S 189 June 14, 29 



Fig. 27. Deraeocoris pinicola, male genital 

 claspers. a, left clasper, lateral aspect : b, in- 

 ternal arm of left clasper ; c, right clasper, 

 lateral aspect. 



