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1803 Capsus tricolor Fahricius, Syst. Rhyng., p. 246. 



1804 Capsus tricolor Panzer, Fauna Germ., fasic. xciii, fig. 20. 

 1804 Capsus tricolor Latreille, Hist. Nat. Crust. Ins., xii, p. 233. 

 1833 Capsus tricolor Dufour, Recher. Anat. Hemip., p. 176. 

 1835 Capsus tricolor Herrich-Schaeffer, Nomen. Ent,, i, p. 51. 

 1837 Capsus tricolor Spinola, Essai sur les Hemip., ]). 190. 



1843 Capsus tricolor Aleyer. Vcrz. Schw. Rhyn., p. 108. 



1855 Capsus (Dcracocoris) tricolor Kirschbanm, jahr. ver. Nat. Herz. Nassau, 

 X, p. 212; (Sep.) Rhyn. v. Wiesb., Caps., p. 52. 



1860 Capsus (Capsus) tricolor Flor, Rhyng. Livl., i, p. 509. 



1861 Capsus capillaris z'ar. c. Fiebcr, Eur. Hemip., p. 266. 



1875 Dcracocoris laiiiarius rar. c. Renter, Rev. Crit. Caps., [ii], p. 75. — Acta 



Soc. Faun. Fl. Fenn., i, p. 89. 

 1890 Dcracocoris sc(/uisiinis var. tricolor Atkinson, Cat. Caps., p. 101. 

 1896 Dcracocoris scyusiinis 7'ar. c. tricolor Renter, Hem. Gymn. Eur., v, p. 33. 

 1909 Dcracocoris ruber var. scgusiiius Oshanin, Verz. Palae. Hemip.. i, p. 756. 

 1917 Dcracocoris ruber var. scijusiinis Van Duzee, Cat. Hemip., p. 358. 



S. Black, front of head, base of corium and embolium, and basal half of 

 cuneus, reddisli ; ventral surface of body black, ostiolar peritreme pale; legs 

 colored as in the tyjjical variety or only slightly darker. 



Antennae: segment I, length .77 mm., black; I], 2.42 mm., slender on basal 

 half, gradually thickened from middle toward apex, practically attaining the 

 thickness of segment I, black, thickly clothed with short stifif black hairs, 

 longest hairs scarcely attaining greatest tiiickness of segment; III, 1.03 mm., 

 yellowish brown; IV, .65 nun., fusco-brownish. 



Venter: black, shining, yellowish pubescent; genital claspers (fig. 43) dis- 

 tinctive of the species. 



Plcsiotyf^c: S June 29, ^\'hite Plains, New York ( C. E. Olsen ) ; 

 author's collection. Specimens e.vaiiiiiied : CONNECTICUT, — S 

 July 21, New Haven (M. P. Zappe). MASSACHUSETTS.— 5 

 Aug. 16. Beach Bluff; S July 24. Marblehead (H. M. Parshley). 

 NEW YORK,— c? June 20, c5 July 10, Maspeth, Long Island (C. E. 

 Olsen). 



This variety represents the normal color phase of the male. 



Deraeocoris ruber concolor (Renter) 



1896 Deraeocoris seijusinus -ear. f. concolor Renter, Hem. Gymn. luir.. v. p. 34. 

 1909 Dcracocoris ruber var. concolor Oshanin, Verz. Palae. Hemip., i, p. 756. 

 1917 Dcracocoris ruber var. concolor Van Duzee, Cat. Hemip., p. 358. 



The writer lias not seen an example of the variety concolor Ren- 

 ter. 



All the varieties of ruber are merely melanic cokn- forms, but 

 as sucli, varietal names are useful for separating specimens into groups 

 having the same general aspect. P3ach particular color phase is an in- 



