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the female, longer in the male. Hind femora about one-third an 

 wide as long in the female, hardly one-fourth in the male. 



Dextral hook of the male genitalia slender toward its apex, 

 bent at a right angle dorsally ; sinistral somewhat crescentic, its 

 inner (dextral) angle produced. 



Ground color pale yellowish-testaceous. Head, legs, and 

 elytra dotted with dark sanguinous, the latter closely, almost con- 

 fluently so, appearing as if washed with red. Antennae pale, 

 basal joint red, apex slightly infuscated. Pronotum and scutel- 

 lum deep pieeous or almost black ; elytral commissure evenly and 

 indefinitely clouded with fuscous, this clouding scarcely extending 

 onto inner angle of corium. ]\Iembrane blackish, with a pale line 

 around apex of cuneus, nervures red. Face sometimes dusky, 

 clypeus and cheeks clear red. Lower surface and base of hind 

 femora more or less infuscated; tibial bristles fuscous, springing 

 from sanguinous dots. Upper surface clothed with a fine pale 

 pubescence. 



Described from fifteen examples beaten from Adcnostoma in 

 San Diego County, California, from July to October. Although 

 closely allied to psalliodes, this form seems sufficiently distinct by 

 its dark pronotum, scutellum and lower surface, and the con- 

 colorous inner angle of the corium 



Transmitted January 3, 19J6. 



