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nte bright yellow, highly polished, swollen ; front set with 

 erect yellowish hairs; occipital carina narrow, dull yel- 

 low, black in the middle ; rostrum slender, piceous at 

 base and tip, reaching between the middle coxa?. Pro- 

 notum convex, dark brown, bronze pubescent, often bor- 

 dered posteriorly with yellow, and with an oblong dull 

 yellow spot on the middle, collum more or less dull yel- 

 low, the surface scabrous and transversely wrinkled, the 

 posterior margin regularly curved. Scutellum dark brown, 

 pubescent, wrinkled, broadly yellow at tip. Legs dull 

 yellowish, the two anterior pairs of femora paler, crossed 

 by about two piceous bands, the posterior femora crossed 

 by broader and darker bands, tibial knees and apex of 

 tarsi blackish piceous. Hemielytra pale dull tawn}^ or 

 obscure chestnut-brown, with the costal margin and cu- 

 neus pale yellow, the base of coriura shaded and streaked 

 with pale dull yellow, the coarse vein of inner apical mar- 

 gin next behind the clavus conspicuously yellow; the sur- 

 face mostly covered with prostrate bronze-yellow pubes- 

 cence; membrane dusky, with the veins yellow. Ster- 

 nal and pleural pieces black above and between the coxa", 

 elsewhere yellow. Venter yellow, with a black disk and 

 an interrupted black stripe next the connexivum. In the 

 male the black color is sometimes spread over most of the 

 venter. 



The antenna; are lonfjer and stouter than in P. hasalis 

 Reuter, and the second joint is as long as the corium. 



Length to end of venter, 04;$ 5^—6 inm. Width of 

 pronotum, 2—23^ mm. 



A specimen, 6 , is in the collection from San Quintin 

 (No. 814), collected in May by Mr. C. D. Haines, and 

 others are marked "Cal. 9." The species inhabits man}' 

 parts of California, and it is found also in Arizona. No. 

 813 from El Rosario, collected in May by Mr. CD. 

 Haines, is a faded variety of the same species. 



