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with a rather broad piceous band at middle of apical half, two series of fus- 

 cous points on anterior face of basal half, a secondary obsolete and more or 

 less interrupted fuscous band just before apex; tibiae triannulate with brown- 

 ish black, also a dark spot on the knee, thickly clothed with long erect hairs, 

 length of longest hairs equal to twice the thickness of tibia; tarsi yellowish 



brown, darker at apices ; claws and 



<ri'' y> arolia similar to those of sayi. 



■^ Venter : brownish to piceous, 



paler at the sides, a series of im- 

 pressed piceous spots on each side, 

 one on each segment beneath the 

 spiracle but somewhat removed 

 apache from it; genital claspers (fig. 



36) very distinctive of the species. 

 Fig. 36. Deracocoris apache, male genital o To +T-, 7 o ■ Ai-\ t. a 



claspers. a, left clasper, lateral aspect; b, in- ^- ^engtn /.Z mm., width ^.4 



ternal arm of left clasper ; c, right clasper, nim. ; very similar to the male in 



lateral aspect. 



color and structure, the piceous 



band on femora much reduced and more brownish in color; segment II, length 

 1.85 mm., more slender than in the male, gradually enlarged toward apex, length 

 of exserted hairs equal to more than three times the thickness of segment 

 at middle, yellowish to brownish, dark brown on the apical one-fourth; seg- 

 ment I more reddish brown than piceous ; membrane paler than in the male. 



Holotypc: S June 20, Prescott, Arizona (H. S. Barber); Cat. 

 No. 24168 U. S. N. M. Allotype: topotypic ; Cornell University col- 

 lection. Paratypcs: ARIZONA,—? Jtine 17, 29 June 19, $ 2$ June 

 20, Prescott (H. S. Barber). $, "Ariz." (Uhler collection). 



Deraeocoris fusifrons new species 



Larger than foiestratns, frons marked with black, calli solid black, dorsum 

 pale and darkened with piceous ; femora pale, two reddish brown bands on 

 the apical half. 



S. Length 6.4 mm. Head: width 1.14 mm., vertex .51 mm., length .65 

 mm. ; facial angle slightly less than a right angle, structurally very similar to 

 feiiestratus; carina obsolete, collum black, broadly "exposed, separated from 

 the vertex by a groove, lower face strongly pubescent; pale to yellowish, bor- 

 dering inner margin of eyes and projecting upon vertex, transverse marks on 

 front each side, of median line, geminate mark on basal half of tyhis, spot 

 beneath eye. dorsal half of bucculae, spot at base and the slender tip of tylus, 

 piceous or black. Rostrum, length 2.19 ipm., attaining hind margins of middle 

 coxae, yellowish brown, piceous on basal segment and at apex. 



Antennae: segment I, length .51 mm., yellowish brown; II, 1.6 mm., grad- 

 ually enlarged from base toward apex, attaining the thickness of segment I, 

 dusky pubescent, length of exserted hairs nearly equal to twice greatest thick- 

 ness of segment, yellowish, the apical one-fourth blackish ; III, .63 mm. ; IV, 

 .48 mm. ; last two segments brownish to fuscous. 



Pronotum: length 1.42 mm., width at base 2.42 mm., anterior angles 1.2 

 mm., collar .83 mm.; disk convex, coarsely but sparsely punctate, longly pubes- 



