86 AMERICAN HEMIPTERA. 



Catonia costata n. sp. 



Small, testaceous brown, front unicolorous. Length i\ mm. 



Vertex broad and rounded before, its length scarcely more than one- 

 half the width between the eyes ; sloping from the base ; the marginal 

 and median carinae moderately elevated ; basal margin very feebly ex- 

 cavated, nearly straight. Front broad, oblong, slightly wider at apex, 

 sides nearly rectilinear, surface convex, the carinae feebly elevated. 

 Clypeus broad and short, rounded at base, the carinas feeble. Pro- 

 notum proportionately broad, about half the length of the vertex, less 

 deeply and acutely emarginate than in our other species, carinas 

 moderately elevated ; mesonotal carinas distinct, nearly parallel. Elytra 

 about as in impunctata, the nervures impunctate. 



Color dull testaceous-brown ; head paler and more tinged with ochre- 

 ous ; pronotum pale with a blackish cloud beneath the eye. Elytra 

 fuscous-brown, the nervures paler in places ; the short transverse ner- 

 vures and the costa whitish, but not conspicuously so. Wings smoky 

 hyaline, nervures fuscous ; pectoral pieces fuscous, margined with pale ; 

 abdomen blackish, .the segments more or less edged with ferruginous 

 or dull sanguineous; genital pieces whitish. Legs pale testaceous- 

 brown, the tarsal spines tipped with black. 



Described from one female and five male examples taken 

 by Mr. Fordyce Grinnell, Jr., on the San Gabriel Mountains 

 near Pasadena, California, on June 17, 1909, at an altitude 

 of 3000 feet. This is a plain little species of the size and 

 form of pumila, but very distinct in the characters of the 

 head and the unicolorous elytra and impunctate nervures, in 

 which latter character it agrees with impunctata. It bears a 

 slight resemblance to Plectoderes basalts Fowler, but is smaller 

 and wants the pale base to the elytra. 



Catonia cara n. sp. 



Widely distinct from any described North American species. Pale 

 luteo-testaceous becoming castaneous on the base of the elytra, behind 

 which is a broad transverse pale band. Length 6 mm. 



Head short and broad as in costata. Vertex transverse, anterior and 

 posterior margins almost parallel, slightly arcuated, its length about 

 two-thirds the width between the eyes ; carinas distinct, forming an 

 obtuse triangle ; anterior edge rounded to the broad rather convex 

 front on which the carinas are but feebly raised ; clypeus longer than 

 in costata. Pronotum very short, linear. Mesonotal carinas straight 

 and slightly divergent posteriorly. Elytra ample, rather thin, nervures 

 impunctate. 



Head, pleural pieces and legs pale yellowish testaceous; antennal 

 setas and tarsi black ; thorax and elytra luteo-testaceous ; lateral com- 



