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near the tip; rostrum stout, reaching far behind the 

 posterior coxae. Cephalic protuberance long and stout, 

 above grooved throughout, pale, flecked with brown on 

 the carinate lines and margins. Pronotum contracted at 

 the base of the head, the tablet deeply grooved and promi- 

 nently carinated, short, deeply sinuate behind, the latero- 

 posterior margin feebly sinuated, and the sides narrow; 

 mesonotum almost flat, feebly carinated. Hemelytra but 

 little longer than the abdomen, almost white, variably 

 streaked with fuscous, the veins spotted with fuscous, the 

 costal vein sometimes made brown by the close dots, one 

 forked vein running back from the middle enclosing a 

 long, narrow area, which is sometimes closed posteriorly, 

 before the apex is a transverse series of about four cross- 

 veins, and on the apex five or six small cells of different 

 shapes; wings dusky. Beneath straw color, the meso- 

 sternal segment whitish, deeply emarginated on the 

 posterior middle, the metasternum longer, still more 

 deeply sinuated, and incised on the middle line. Anterior 

 femora flattened, sharply carinated, the legs dotted and 

 spotted with brown, tibiae pale, twice banded with pale 

 brown, the posterior pair with seven piceous thick spines, 

 nails piceous. 



Length from eye to tip of abdomen 4-4^ millims. ; 

 to tip of hemelytra 5 mm. Length of cephalic process 

 2-214^ mm. 



Specimens from Los Angeles, Cal,, were kindly pre- 

 sented to me by Mr. D. W. Coquillett. 



5. S. perdiXf New sp. 



Pale straw yellow, or gray above, cephalic process 

 moderately long, slender, tapering, rounded at tip, deeply 

 sulcated, with a very convex knob on the middle of the 

 vertex, the front with rows of minute brownish dots. 

 Pronotum short, the central tablet with two very deep 



