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Camptobrochis nebulosus Uhler. Two specimens 

 are in the collection, marked " Cal. 4." A few speci- 

 mens were found near Cape St. Lucas by Mr. John 

 Xanthus. This species is now known from most parts 

 of North America. It is distributed from Quebec to 

 northern Florida, and on the Pacific side of the continent 

 it has been found in British Columbia, Washington State, 

 and from thence to San Bernardino, California, and far- 

 ther south. 



Der^ocoris cerachates n. sp. 



Broad ovate, more deeply convex than usual, form 

 nearly like Camptobrochis nchnlosiis Uhl. , but much larger ; 

 honey-yellow, polished, closely and unevenly punctate, 

 many of the punctures brown. Head highly polished, 

 strongl}' convex, of medium length, sloping obliquely, 

 with the tylus continuing the curve of the front and dis- 

 tinctly cut at base; antenna? slender, the second joint a 

 little longer than the pronotum, black and slightly thick- 

 ened at tip, the remaining joints short, j^ellow, the fourth 

 about of the same length as the first; rostrum reaching 

 over the posterior cox^e ; the occipital collar very small 

 and almost hidden. Pronotum wider than long, v^ery 

 convex, deeply, coarsely deeply and unevenly punctate, 

 dark honey-yellow or fulvous, clouded with fuscous across 

 the base, and with a slender dark submarginal line, the 

 callosities smooth impunctate, swollen, dark brown, col- 

 lum wide, depressed, whitish-yellow, with the posterior 

 margin white and sinuated in the middle. Pectoral seg- 

 ments, sternum and legs .uniform pale honey-yellow. 

 Scutellum unusually swollen, highly polished, impunctate, 

 with the basal angles and tip pale yellow. Hemielytra 

 deeply but not closely set with brown punctures, the apex 

 of clavus, and disk, and apex of the corium broadly, ir- 

 regularly brown, the costal margin with a slender brown 



