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form may be a good species but in the absence of any definite 
structures for separation from elegans the writer hesitates in 
giving it specific rank. 
Dichrooscytus speciosus var. rubropallidus new variety. 
Structurally not distinguishable from speciosus V. D., but differing 
greatly in general appearance; dark fuscous red marked with pale or 
white. : 
6. Length 4.88 mm., width 1.94 mm. Front of the head white, lower 
half of face fuscous, more reddish on the lorz, dark spot each side be- 
tween the eyes just in front of the declivitous vertex, usually eight bright 
red lines radiating out on each side of the median line of the front; 
rostrum dark red; antenne dark yellowish, the first segment fuscous; 
eyes dark brown. Scutellum, sides of pronotum and transversely across 
the disk, epimeron of the mesothorax, coxe, tibie, inner margin of the 
corium and along the claval suture, corium, exterior of the cubitus except 
across the apex, and inner half of the cuneus, pale to white. Sternum, 
episternum and venter, dark fuscous red, shining; femora bright reddish. 
Female very similar to the male in coloration but with some pale appear- 
ing on the sides of the venter. 
Holotype: $, June 7-17, 1916, Jemez Spring, New Mexico, alti- 
tude 6,400 feet (John Woodgate) ; Cornell University Collection. 
Allotype: Taken with the type. 
Paratypes: 2 JS, 2 22, taken with the types. 
Opisthuria clandestina var. dorsalis new variety. 
Differs from clandestina V. D. in that the scutellum and disk of the 
pronotum is black. 
Length 7.1 mm., width 2.8 mm. Black, base of head, juga, lore, gene, 
sides of pronotum, median vitta on basal half of the scutellum sides of 
pronotum, bases of middle and posterior femora, venter except the genital 
segment, orange. 
Holotype: 3, Aug. 26, Hanging Rock, Ohio (C. J. Drake) ; 
Cornell University Collection. 
Allotype: Taken with the type. 
Opisthuria clandestina var. ventralis new variety. 
Similar to dorsalis except the venter is fuscous to black, the orange col- 
oring being replaced by yellowish to pale. 
Holotype: $, Polk County, Wisconsin, Cornell University Col- 
lection. i 
Paratype: 8, July 9, 1915, Ithaca, New York (W. A. Hoffman). 
