198 Eighteenth Report State Entomologist oe Minnesota — 1920 



Deraeocapsus new genus 



General aspect suggestive of both Deraeocoris and Capsus l)Ut 

 distinguished as follows: claws not cleft (tig. 2, H), pseudo-arolia 

 absent; arolia slender, bristle-like and erect, nearly parallel but slightly 

 converging at the apices ; metatarsus distinctly thickened, about equal 

 to twice the thickness of either of the following segments, when meas- 

 ured from the ventral aspect equal to the combined length of seg- 

 ments two and three; front tibiae with four or five heavy spines on 

 ventral surface near apex, the arrangement of spines above and below 

 the tibial comb also distinctive (PI. IX, (i-H) ; segment II of anten- 

 nae strongly clavate apically ; dorsum either distinctly hairv or nearly 

 glabrous. ( )ther characters as given in the sj)ecific descriptions by 

 Mr. Van Duzee. 



(icnotypc : Deraeocoris ingens \"an Duzee (Univ. Calif. Publ., 

 Tech. Bui.. 1, p. 237). 



KEY TO THE SPECIES OF DERAEOCAPSUS 



Legs entirely black; pronotum and legs conspicuously liairy ; segment II 

 of antennae gradually thickened from liase to near apex 



iugciis Van D. 



Femora au'l basal half of tibiae reddish; not conspicuonsly hairy, prono- 

 tum practically glabrous; segment II of antennae strongly clavate on 

 the apical half ....... fratcrnns Van D. 



LITERATURE CITED 



(References marked with an asterisk have not been verified in 

 the original.) 

 Atkinson, Edwin T. 



1890 [Catalogue of the Capsidae.] II. — Catalogue of the Insecta. 

 Order Rhynchoia. Suliorder Hemiptera-lleteroptera. Fam- 

 ily Capsidae.. . /;; journal of the Asiatic Society of Ben- 

 gal, Iviii, (1889), Supplement, pp. 25-199. [Separate is- 

 sued with half-page shift in type, thus causing a slight al- 

 teration in pagination.] 

 .Vmyot, C. J. B., i-:t Serville, Audi net 



184v3 Ilistoire Xaturelle des Insectes. Hemipteres. 8vo. Paris. 

 1843. pp. iii-lxxvi + 1-675. 



Banks, Nathan 



1910 Catalogue of the Nearctic Hemiptera-lleteroptera... 8vo. 

 Philadelphia, 1910. pp. 1-103+ ( index ) i-viii. 



