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the present the following- are the principal works concerned in 

 this part of the Catalogne : 



Stal: "Hemiptera," in Eugenie's Resa, Ins. (1860). 



Stal: ''I]nmneratio Hem./' in Svensk. Vet. Handl. 1870-6. 



Uhler: "List of Hemiptera of the region west of the Missis- 

 sippi River," in Bull. TJ. S. Geol. Snrvey, II, 269-361, 

 Pis. 19-21 (1876). 



Uhler : "Report Upon the Insects Collected .. .. During the 



Explorations of 1875 ," in Bnll. U. S. Geol. Survey, 



III, 855-475, Pis. 27-8 (1877). 



Van Duzee: "Annotated List of the Pentatomidse Recorded 

 from America Xorth of Mexico," in Tr. Amer. E. S., 

 XXX, 1-80 (1904). 



SlIBOEDEK HeTEI?OPTEEA. 



fa:mily ci:mtcidae. 



1. Apateficus pallrns (Stal). San Francisco (L^hler) ; 

 Mountain View (Ehrhorn). 

 This species differs from modestus by the much longer 

 ventral spine, and l)y the flavescent urotergites ; from 

 serieventris by the ventral median spots grading small- 

 er posteriorly, the longer ventral spine, etc. 

 ■ 2. A. mncidiventris (Say). 



3. A. hmrteatus var. crocata (Uhler). 



4. Perilloidcs orulatus (Fabricius). 



5. P. splendidus f Fhler). San Diego (Uhler) ; Los Ange- 



les (Van Duzee). 



6. ? Stiretrus anrhemrjo (Fabricius). 



I have not seen adults from California, nor have 

 tliev been recorded, l)nt some nymphs collected by Mr. 

 Giffard on Santa Barbara foothills (June, 1907,) and 

 San Francisco (July, 1907,) can scarcely refer to any- 

 thing else. They may be described as follows: 



Shining indigo-blue; antennae, labium and legs black with a bluish 

 gleam in part; a large median spot on metanotum immediately behind 

 the junction of the lower wing-pads, the sterna, coxae, trochanters, and 

 a narrow, curved, sublateral stripe down the urosternites — vermilion. 

 The head and nota with the wing-pads are finely rugulose (more 

 coarsely on the last) ; the abdomen is also finely rugulose but is also 



