Deraeocoris (Heteroptera, Miridae) 185 



mm.; collar .71 mm., opaque, brownish; disk rufo-piceous, coarsely and rather 

 irregularly punctate, beset with numerous long erect hairs, longest at lateral 

 margins ; calli slightly convex, more nearly black than central area of pro- 

 notal disk ; propleura dark reddish, piceous above, more coarsely punctate bor- 

 dering the dorsal margin ; xyphus convex anteriorly, reddish. Scutellum strongly 

 convex as in vanduzeei, smooth and shining, rufo-piceous, paler at slender apex 

 and basal angles. Sternum and pleura dark reddish ; ostiolar peritreme red- 

 dish. 



Hcniciyfra : width 2.74 mm., structurally nearly as in vandiizeei; rufo-pice- 

 ous, more reddish brown between the punctures on clavus. Cuiicus with coagu- 

 lated red, apical one-third and narrowly at inner basal angle piceous, punc- 

 tures concolorous. Membrane fuliginous, slightly paler bordering tip of cuneus, 

 veins and apical half of areoles darker. 



Legs: sanguineous to dark red, femora with an indistinct paler band on 

 apical half ; tibiae more distinctly hairy than in vand,iizeei, triannulate with pale, 

 broadest band at middle of apical half, the second at middle of basal half, third 



and narrowest band just be- 

 neath the knee ; tarsi yellow- 

 ish to fuscous : claws and aro- 

 lia similar to those in van- 

 ditzcci. 



Venter: sanguineous to rufo- 

 piceous, pale pubescent ; gen- 

 ital claspers (fig. 40) dis- 

 t'U'fil/'entri^ tinctive but exhibiting a close 

 ' relationship with randuzeei. 



Fig. 40. Deraeocoris rufiventris, male Renital 9 Length 5.3 mm., width 



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



ternal arm of left clasper; c, right clasper, lat- 2.87 mm.; very similar to the 

 eral aspect. i 1 . i- 1 "1 , 



male but slightly more robust ; 



segment II, length 1.54 mm., only very slightly more slender than in male, 

 yellowish, tinged with red near base, the apical one-fourth black. 



Holotypc: $ June 28, San Diego County, California (E. P. Van 

 Duzee) ; collection of E. P. Van Duzee. Allotype : same data as the 

 type. Paratypcs: 7$ 59, taken with the types. 



Deraeocoris californicus new species 



Ground color chiefly honey yellow, scutellum yellowish brown, hind tibiae 

 with a brown annulus near middle, also a brown band on apical half of femora ; 

 pronotal disk distinctly hairy, finely and rather closely punctate. 



$. Length 6.2 mm. Head: width 1.08 mm., vertex .52 mm., length .65 

 mm. ; carina obsolete, collum moderately exposed, brownish, separated from 

 vertex by a groove ; strongly pubescent or hairy, shining ; testaceous, gem- 

 inate mark on basal half of tylus, spot beneath front margin of eye, slender 

 dorsal margin of lorae, reddish brown to piceous. Rostrum, length 2.28 mm., 

 attaining hind margins of middle coxae, testaceous, darker apically. 



Antennae : (missing in the only male specimen). 



Pronntum: length 1.42 mm., width at base 2.48 mm., anterior angles 1.05 



