272 CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 



Macrotylus verticalis n. sp. 



More ovate, shorter and convex than the preceding 

 species, with no contracted neck behind the eyes, pale 

 3^ellowish testaceous, minutely and closely pubescent. 

 Head short, very moderately convex, with a brown oval 

 mark on the face, which is sometimes broken; eyes 

 larger than in the preceding species, broivn; tylus and 

 cheeks black, polished; rostrum piceous at base and tip. 

 reaching between the posterior coxa? ; the throat and buc- 

 culce testaceous. Pronotum convex, a little longer than 

 wide, with the anterior lobe more fulvous, and the callos- 

 ities sometimes darker, pubescence of the sides longer 

 and blackish. Base of scutellum exposed, and yellow in 

 each angle. Legs testaceous yellow, sometimes dusky, 

 dotted with black. Hemielytra sometimes a little green- 

 ish testaceous, pubescent like the pronotum, the middle 

 of cuneus more or less dusky, and the membrane dusky 

 or clouded, with the vein pale. Middle of pleural flap in 

 front of depression, upper angle of mesopleural piece, 

 and upper end of middle and posterior cox£e polished 

 black. Venter dusk)^ yellow at tip, and with a bright 

 3^ellow spot on the border of each of the segments. 



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

 notum, 1^/2 mm. 



Several specimens are in the collection, labeled "Cal. 

 2." Varieties of this species occur at San Diego and 

 other places in southern California, and I have examined 

 a pair from the vicinity of Cape St. Lucas, taken by Mr. 

 John Xanthus. 



Macrotylus angularis n. sp. 



Form broader and less convex than in M. verticalis, 

 with the head shorter and wider, and no appreciable 

 neck; smoky -blackish, marked with yellowish -white. 

 Head orange yellow, polished, pubescent at base and on 



