82 AMERICAN HEMIPTERA. 



a blackish cloud on the apex inwardly ; base of the cuneus broadly 

 white ; membrane blackish fuscous, the nervure still darker. Legs 

 and beneath light rufous ; osteolar orifice white ; venter piceous black, 

 polished, becoming rufous on the base and oviduct, the sixth con- 

 nexival segment terminating in a distinct spine ; posterior femora a 

 little darker ; tips of the tibia? and the tarsi blackish. 



Described from one female example taken on Mt. Wilson 

 near Los Angeles, California, June 5, 1909, by Mr. Fordyce 

 Grinnell, Jr. This is a handsome and interesting addition to 

 the Hemipterous fauna of California. It recalls the Lygseid 

 Pamera bilobata, but pertains to Reuter's new division Cremno- 

 cephalaria of the Capsidae. 



Elidiptera fusiformis n. sp. 



Quite distinct from any other species known to me. Front banded ; 

 vertex short, elytra expanded at base, and vaguely banded with brown 

 at base and across the middle. Length to apex of the elytra 11 mm. 



Head short; vertex almost square, median line sulcate, lateral 

 carinas oblique, base broadly arcuated, almost parallel with the an- 

 terior margin. Front oblong, broadest at the apical one-fourth, sides 

 sinuated, broadly laminate-expanded and translucent, apex angularly 

 but not deeply excavated, median carinas weak. Clypeus sub-tri- 

 angular, sides feebly arcuated. Pronotum a little longer than the 

 vertex, strongly carinated, hind margin angularly and rather deeply 

 emarginate. Patagiae large, transverse. Mesonotum large, closely 

 aciculate, median carina feeble, lateral arcuated, strong anteriorly, 

 weak posteriorly. Elytra fusiform when closed ; broad at base, much 

 narrower toward the apex. 



General color piceous brown, becoming paler on the vertex, prono- 

 tum, apex of the elytra and abdomen ; irregularly varied and irrorate 

 with pale ; carinas and margin of the various parts mostly pale ; apex 

 of the scutellum whitish. Elytra closely inscribed with white, form- 

 ing a broad band across the basal third, but omitting the humeral 

 angles ; apical third paler and less clearly inscribed ; middle of the 

 broad costal areola with three approximate oval black spots, and there 

 is a brown patch on the stigma and a few smaller marks near the apex ; 

 nervures mostly pale. Front and pectus cream white with a narrow 

 piceous band on the base, which crosses the eye and becomes black 

 on the propleura ; clypeus brown. Coxae and legs pale brown. Ab- 

 domen pale brown, darker on the sides and apical segment. Wings 

 slightly enfumed with brown nervures. 



Described from one female in the collection of the Museum 

 of Comparative Zoology which bear the label, " Goose Lake, 



