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mm., collar .85 mm. ; disk moderately convex, distinctly hairy, finely and rather 

 closely punctate, lateral margins distinct, very slightly sinuate, anterior angles 

 rounded; honey a'cHovv or slightly brownish, punctures concolorous ; calli 

 marked with black, a line bordering hind margin, recurved slightly at outer 

 angles and joined at middle, an arc bordering inner anterior angles, a trans- 

 verse line on disk of each but frequently interrupted, sometimes extending 

 to join with a black mark near anterior angles of pronotal disk; xyphus 

 slightly convex anteriorly, pale pubescent. ScutcUum convex, smooth and shin- 

 ing, pilose, brownish, slightly paler at basal angles and apex. Sternum and 

 pleura testaceous to brownish ; ostiolar peritreme pale. 



Hcniclytra : width 3.1 mm. ; embolar margin straight along middle, rounded 

 slightly near each end ; moderately convex, heavily pubescent or hairy, rather 

 finely punctate, punctures infuscated; testaceous or honey yellow, corium with 

 spot at middle, smaller one at base, a broad spot at outer apical angle and 

 slightly invading the embolium, brownish black. Cmtnis pale, narrowly at 

 inner basal angle and frequently the apex dark brownish, punctures concolor- 

 ous. Membrane pale fuliginous, veins dark brown. 



Legs : tiiickly clothed with prominent pale hairs, testaceous ; femora with a 

 dark brown mark on dorsal and anterior face near middle of apical half ; hind 

 tibiae with brownish band at middle, sometimes nearly obsolete ; claws deeply 

 cleft, arolia slender, bristle-like, erect, nearly parallel but slightly converging 

 at apices. 



Venter: testaceous, be- 

 ' coming more or less 



tinged with reddish, pale 

 pubescent ; genital clas- 

 pers (fig. 41) distinc- 

 tive of the species but 

 exhibiting a close rela- 

 tionship with cerachates. 

 9. Length 6.3 mm., 

 width 3 mm. : very sim- 

 ilar to the male in form 

 and coloration but the 

 blackish spots on hemelytra much reduced in size, frequently absent from apex 

 of corium. Antennae: segment I, length .54 mm.; 11,. 1.68 mm., slender, slightly 

 enlarged at apex but not attaining the thickness of segment T, clothed with 

 erect pale hairs, length of longest hairs equal to three times greatest thickness 

 of segment; III, .65 mm.; IV, .45 mm.; all segments yellowish, very little 

 darker at apex of segment II. 



Holotypc: 5, Los Angeles County, California (Coquillett) ; Cor- 

 nell University collection. Allotype : Jime 8, San Diego County, Cal- 

 ifornia (E. P. Van Duzee). Paralypcs: CALIFORNIA,— 5. taken 

 with the allotype. 2, "Los Ang." [Los Angeles] ( LThler collection). 



cai iTornicu3 



Fig. 41. Df'raeocoris californicus, male genital 

 claspers. a, left clasper, lateral aspect ; b, internal 

 arm of left clasper ; c, right clasper, lateral aspect. 



