Deraeocoris (Heteroptera, MiRidae) 187 



Deraeoccris californicus desiccatus new variety 



S- Lengtli 5.5 mm., width 2.59 mm. Structurally very similar to if not 

 identical with the typical californicus: ground color pallid and more or less 

 bleached, pronotal disk coarsely, deeply, and more sparsely punctate than in 

 califoniicKS. punctures on sub-basal margin becoming piceous ; black marks on 

 calli distinctly piceous while blackish spots on corium are nearly obsolete. 



Aiitciiiiac : segment I, length .45 mm.; II, 1.48 mm., gradually enlarged 

 from base to middle, nearly cylindrical on ai)ical half and equal to segment I 

 in thickness, pale pubescent, length of longest exserted hairs equal to twice 

 greatest thickness of segment, pale, becoming brownish near apex ; III, .57 

 mm., brownish ; IV, missing. 



9. Length 5.6 mm., width 2.9 mm., embolar margin more distinctly arcuate 

 than in the typical californicus : more pallid than in the male, infuscations of 

 hemelytra nearly obsolete but the piceous markings on calli equally distinct. 



Holofypc: <?, September, Palo Alto, California (J. C. Bradley) ; 

 Cornell University collection. Allotypes: taken with the type. Para- 

 typcs: 29, August, San Francisco, California (J. C. Bradley). 



Deraeocoris californicus bradleyi new variety 



9. Length 5.6 mm., width 2.9 mm. ; very similar in structure to the typical 

 californicus but smaller, more ovate, and darker in color ; f rons testaceous, 

 pronotum with punctures piceous on the sub-basal margin, calli heavily lined 

 with black as in desiccatus: scutellum pale, piceous on the median line, or the 

 median line pale and leaving a vitta each side, the vittae sometimes constricted 

 at middle thus tending to form four piceous spots ; corium broadly piceous 

 across apex, a large spot at middle and a smaller one at base ; membrane pale 

 fuscous, paler near tip of cuneus, veins darker fuscous. 



Holotxpc: 9, August. San Francisco, California (J. C. Bradley); 

 collection of E. P. Van Duzee. Paratypcs : 29, taken with the type. 



Deraeocoris californicus rufocuneatus new variety 



9. Length 5.7 mm., width 2.9 mm. ; very similar to bradleyi but differs as 

 indicated in the key ; cuneus sanguineous, paler at outer margin, f rons trans- 

 versely marked with black each side of median line, also black bordering front 

 margin of eye and projecting in a spur upon vertex. 



Holofypc: 9 June 2, Mission Canyon, Santa Barbara, California, 

 (Harold Morrison) ; author's collection. 



Deraeocoris cerachates Uhler 



1894 Deraeocoris ceracluites Uhler, Pruc. Calif. .\cad. Sci., ser. 2, iv, p. 265. 

 1917 Canipfobrochys ( MycterocorisJ ceracliales Van Duzee, Cat. Hemip., p. v355. 



