1926] 
A Note on Beds annulifera {Bigot) 
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in a series from Lake Nipigon, Ontario, collected by N. K. 
Bigelow. 
Beris annulifera var. luteipes var. nov. 
Beris morrisii of authors, not Dale. 
Femora, tibiae and posterior metatarsi entirely yellow, the 
front and middle metatarsi yellow except the tip, the remaining 
tarsal joints blackish. 
Holotype and allotype Seattle, Wash. (0. B. Johnson); 
Denver, Col. (Oslar); Kearney, Ontario (M. C. Van Duzee); 
Lake Nipigon, Ontario, (Bigelow), collection of C. W. Johnson. 
Glen House, and Bretton Woods, N. H., St. Johnsbury, Vt. 
(Boston Soc. Nat. Hist.). 
This form is more prevalent in the females than in the males. 
Beris annulifera var. brunnipes var. nov. 
All of the femora and tibiae dark brown, the extreme tips of 
the femora and basal third of the tibiae yellow, the tarsi entirely 
dark brownish black. 
Holotype and allotype, Parroquet Island, Labrador, July 21, 
1887, “Arethusa coll.” (S. Henshaw). In the collection of the 
Boston Society of Natural History. Paratypes from the same 
locality in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. There are 
also specimens from Bretton Woods, N. H. in the Society’s col- 
lection, and from the mountains east of Codroy, Newfoundland, 
July 19, (P. G. Bolster) in the author’s collection. 
