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portion more thickly and closely set with short stiff black hairs, longest hairs 

 not exceeding greatest thickness of segment, piceous, yellowish brown on the 

 middle one-third; III, 1 mm., slender, tapering from base to more slender at 

 apex, yellowish ; IV, .54 mm., fusco-brownish. 



Pronotum: length 1.74 mm., width at base 2.68 mm., anterior angles .97 

 mm. collar .85 mm. ; disk strongly convex but more so on the basal half, 

 deeply and rather closely but irregularly punctate, immarginate, much nar- 

 rowed anteriorly, little wider than collar at anterior margin ; calli small, slightly 

 convex, subconfluent, extending to anterior margin of pronotal disk, irregu- 

 larly delimited behind by coarse punctures, not differing in color from the ad- 

 joining disk; reddish yellow or fulvo-testaceous, finely pubescent, punctures be- 

 coming piceous ; propleura punctate, punctures concolorous ; xyphus flat, finely 

 pubescent. Scutelluni convex, rather sparsely and finely punctate, shining, finely 

 pubescent, reddish yellow; mesoscutum slightly exposed, piceous. Sternum red- 

 dish, becoming darker each side of the median line; pleura reddish, shining, 

 finel}' pubescent ; ostiolar pcritreme pale, sometimes tinged with j^ellowish. 



Hcinclytra : width 3.4 mm., embolar margin nearly straight along middle, 

 rounding in to the fracture at distal end ; moderately convex, nearly glabrous, 

 shining, rather finely but closely punctate, largest punctures on clavus near 

 scutelluni, punctures concolorous, a few becoming piceous ; fulvo-testaceous to 

 reddish, outer edge of embolium, slender outer margin of corium near apex, 

 and slender edges of the commissure, piceous. Cuneus sanguineous, paler at* 

 outer margin, apex black. Membrane infuscated, slightly paler near tip of 

 cuneus, veins brownish black, the darker color invading the membrane slightly 

 each side. 



Legs : brownish black, apical one-fourth of femora reddish except for a 

 blackish line on the dorsal face; tibiae yellowish to reddish, becoming infus- 

 cated at apices and on dorsal surface near base, anterior face with a row of 

 _ distinct colored spines, pubes- 



cent hairs short ; tarsi fusco- 

 brownish. claws deeply cleft 

 (fig. 2, F) ; arolia slender, bris- 

 tle-like, erect, nearly parallel 

 'P \^' C but slightly converging at the 



apices. 

 i^ijt-t/s^ I ■ ]' enter: piceous, broadly red- 



Fig. 43. Deracocoris ruber, male .erenital claspers. 

 a, left clasper. lateral aspect : b, internal arm of left 

 clasper ; c, right clasper, lateral aspect. 



dish on the sides, finely pubes- 

 cent : male genital claspers are 

 figured from variety segiisijins. 



Plesiotypc: $ July 14, Brooklyn, New York (Wni. T. Davis); 

 author's collection. Specicmcns examined: CONNECTICUT, — $ 

 June 27, New Haven (B. H. Walden). $ July 9, $ July 21, New 

 Haven (M. P. Zappe). NEW YORK,—? Jti'ly 2, Maspeth, Long 

 Island (C. E. Olsen). 



Males of this variety are evidently scarce, indicating that the males 

 tend to be darker colored than the females. 



