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grey, or dull tawny at base, and sometimes with the coxee 

 pale testaceous. Propleura and prosternum pale yellow- 

 ish. Hemielytra dull black, flat, minutely pubescent, 

 faintly scabrous, the costal margin almost straight, nar- 

 rowly yellow in concurrence with the border of the pro- 

 notum, the inner edge of the clavus, a wider line running 

 diagonally back to the inner angle of the corium and 

 the clavus, bluish white; membrane long, smoke-black. 

 Venter black, a little polished, much narrower and shorter 

 than the hemielytra, finely pubescent, the exterior margin 

 •white, and the base with a subquadrate white spot. 



Length to tip of venter, 3^-4 mm. Width of base of 

 pronotum, ii/4-i^ mm. 



A few specimens were collected at San Luis and at the 

 Calmalli mines, in April, bv Mr. C. D. Haines. Nos. 

 756, 777 and 554. The males are very much narrower 

 than the females, and this gives greater apparent ampli- 

 tude to the wing-covers. Immature varieties have much 

 of the black color above substituted by a pale lead-color, 

 and the legs more or less fulvous or testaceous. Two 

 specimens were taken at San Jose de Gracias. 



Phytocoris eximius Renter. One specimen was found 

 on Magdalena Island, in March, by Mr. C. D. Haines. 

 It is a common species in manv parts of the United 

 States, and spreads from Arizona and California into 

 Mexico. 



Phytocoris ramosus n. sp. 



Dull fulvous, robust, finely pubescent. Head moder- 

 ately thick, convex, with the usual incised line on the 

 middle, face vertical, the eyes dark brown, very large, 

 occupying most of the side of the head ; antennae long, 

 not very slender, pale fulvous, the basal joint flecked 

 with brown and remotely set with duskv hairs, the second 



