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A NOTE ON BERIS ANN ULIFERA (BIGOT). 
By Charles W. Johnson. 
Boston Society of Natural History. 
This seems to represent an extremely variable species. Spe- 
cimens with all the femora and tibiae yellow, have been referred 
to R. morrisii Dale, a European species, which has however quite 
a different genitalia. I have not seen a typical morrisii from 
America. Numerous specimens from New England and Canada 
agree with Bigot’s description although “Georgie” is given as the 
type locality. In a series of fifty-two specimens I am unable to 
find characters of specific value, but there seem to be three quite 
marked varieties, based on the general color of the legs. Not- 
withstanding the fact that intermediate forms exist, it seems 
well to consider these varieties rather than to have Bigot’s des- 
cription the only means of determining this variable and widely 
distributed species. 
Beris annulifera (Bigot). 
Oplacantha annulifera Bigot, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 1887, 
p. 21. 
Legs yellow, the posterior femora with a more or less pro- 
minent sub-apical band of brownish black, tarsi black with the 
base of the metatarsi yellowish. Its distribution is as follows: 
Bretton Woods, N. H., June 24, Oquossoc, Me., July 2, (C. W. J.), 
Lake Nipigon, July 4 and Lake Abittibi, Ontario, June 23 (N. K. 
Bigelow), English River and Athabasca River, (Kennicot) N. 
Calif., (Mus. Comp. Zool.) Alaska, (Coquillett). 
Around the base of Mt. Washington, N. H., there are as- 
sociated with the typical form the two varieties described below. 
There is also considerable variation in the venation. The two 
veins extending from the tip of the discal cell may be quite 
widely separated, close together, or fused and petiolate. A few 
specimens have an angle and stub — a vestige of a fourth vein 
arising from the discal cell. The latter variation is best shown 
