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11. Corium black bordering claval suture variety affinis 



Corium pale bordering claval suture .variety flavidus n. var. 



12. (7) Hemelytra uniformly black, or only slenderly pale at base of 



radius 13 



Costal margin and frequently base of radius, pale . .variety marginalis 



13. Legs pale testaceous, or blackish only at base of femora 



variety pallipes 



Femora black, or only the apices pale, tibiae chiefly testaceous 



variety nigritus 



H. dislocatus (Say) typical. (Plate xvi, 19.) 



Capsus dislocatus Say, Heter. N. Harm., 21, 1832; ComDl. Writ, i, 339, 

 1859. 



Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci., x, 484, 1912. 



Length 6.2 mm., width 3 mm.; pale ruf o-sanguineus ; antenna! 

 segments i and ii, tylus, juga, base of vertex, two wedged-shaped 

 approximate spots on basal half of pronotal disk, scutellum except- 

 ing median line, inner half of clavus, inner apical angles of corium, 

 membrane, pleura, coxae excluding the anterior pair, and venter, 

 black. 



Food plants : Smilacina racemosa, Geranium maculatum, Scro- 

 phularia leporella, and occasionally Caulophyllum thalictroides. 

 The different color varieties may occur on any of these food plants. 



Branford, 3 July, 1905 (H. W. W.) ; Cornwall, i July (B. H. W.) ; 

 New Haven, i June, 191 1 (B. H. W.) ; 6 July, 1904 (H. L. V.) ; Walling- 

 ford, July, 1911 (D. J. C). 



H. dislocatus var. coccineus (Emmons). 



Phytocoris coccineus Emmons, Nat. Hist. N. Y., Agr., v, pi. 30, fig. 2, 



1854. 



Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. x, 484, 1912. 



Similar to dislocatus except that the pronotum and hemelytra 

 are nearly or quite immaculate, the scutellum entirely black. 



Branford, 29 June, 1905, 5 July, 1905 (H. W. W.). 

 H. dislocatus var. rubellus Knight, new variety. 



Similar to coccineus but the scutellum as well as the whole 

 dorsum, uniformly bright red. 



Holotype: Male, 18 June, 1919, University Farm, St. Paul, Minn. (H. H. 

 Knight). Paratypes: Males and females (6), topotypic. Female, 8 July, 

 1914, Lake Itasca, Minn. (S. A. Graham). 



H. dislocatus var. goniphorus (Say). 



Capsus goniphorus Say, Heter. N. Harm., 21, 1832: Compl. Writ., i, 341, 



1859. 



Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci., x, 484, 1912. 



Similar to dislocatus except the black on pronotum not divided : 

 uniformly black on scutellum, clavus, and corium; femora and 

 front coxae black. 



Branford, 13 July, 1919 (B. H. W.) ; 28 July, 1905 (H. L. V.) ; Kil- 

 lingworth, 27 Jime, 1920 (W. E. B.) ; New Haven, i June, 1911 

 (B. H. W.) ; Norwalk, 24 June, 1920 (W. E. B.). 



