182 Eighteenth Report State Entomologist of Minnesota — 1920 



slender, graduall_v thickened toward apex but not attaining the thickness of 

 segment I, length of longest exserted hairs equal to three times the greatest 

 thickness of segment, yellowish, the apical one-fourth blackish; III, .65 mm.; 

 IV, .45 mm. ; last two segments brownish and darkened with fuscous. 



Holotype : $ August, Marin County, California; Cornell Univer- 

 sity collection. 



Deraeocoris fenestratus (Van Duzee) 



1917 CaiiiptobrocJiis fowslratiis Van Duzee, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci.. ser. 4, vii, 

 p. 266. 



Length 5.5-6 mm. Suboval, yellowish to reddish and piceous, punctured 

 and marked with black, shining; margins of pronotum and hemelytra hairy; 

 front of head and vertex devoid of black marks. 



Length 5.5 mm. Head: width 1.05 mm., vertex .51 mm., length .77 mm.; 

 more produced than in fulvcsccns, front moderately convex, polished, carina obso- 

 lete, collum broadly exposed and elevated slightly above vertex, brownish ; yellow- 

 ish to reddish, geminate mark on basal half of tylus and narrowly at apex, 

 epipharynx, dorsal margins of lorae and bucculae, piceous. Rostrum, length 

 2.4 mm., scarcely attaining posterior margins of hind coxae, first segment. at- 

 taining base of head ; brownish, basal segment reddish, the apical one piceous. 



Antennae: segment I, length .48 mm., yellowish, slightly darker beneath, 

 certain hairs equaling thickness of segment; II, 1.65 mm., slender, yellowish, 

 the apical one-fourth slightly thicker and blackish in color, clothed with prom- 

 inent pale hairs, length of several being three times the thickness of seg- 

 ment; III, .68 mm., yellowish; IV, .57 mm., slightly infuscated. 



Pronotum: length L22 mm., width at base 2.17 mm.; anterior angles .94 

 mm., slightly rounded ; collar .77 mm., finely granulate, brownish ; disk pilose, 

 distinctly hairy at lateral margins, yellowish to rich brownish, sub-basal areas 

 becoming piceous (disk practically black in one specimen) ; punctures coarse, 

 black, irregularly but not densely punctate ; calli flat, black and shining, a pice- 

 ous arc extending to anterior angles ; propleura yellowish brown, in darkest 

 specimens becoming piceous above, xyphus reddish. Scutellum impunctate, 

 shining, somewhat pilose, piceous, basal angles and rnedian line pale ; mesoscu- 

 tum brownish, scarcely exposed. Sternum and pleura brownish to reddish, 

 dull ; ostiolar peritreme pale but with some reddish. 



Hemclyira : width 2.72 mm., convex, embolium arcuated from base to apex, 

 cuneus and membrane deflexed ; pilose, longest hairs on embolium ; coarsely and 

 irregularly punctate, punctures black ; shining, yellowish to brownish, more 

 or less translucent, corium broadly piceous at apex, more or less joined with 

 a large spot at middle ; embolium pale, piceous at apex and darkened along 

 the extreme outer edge. Cuneus pale, inner basal angle and apical one-third 

 piceous. Membrane fuliginous, darker bordering the veins, faintly paler at tip 

 of cuneus and tending to become a transverse band ; veins dark brownish. 



Legs: pale yellowish to brownish, strongly pilose, long hairs on tibiae equal 

 to at least twice the thickness of tibia; apical half of femora brownish or red- 



