HEMIPTERA OF l.OWER CALIFORNIA. 293 



carinated on the middle, the occiput bordered with a 

 thick carinate edge; the inner submargin of the eyes 

 marked by a line of punctures which terminate in a group 

 set in an oval fossa near the lower end of the eye ; the 

 clypeus distinctly, obliquely depressed each side of the 

 ridge-like tylus and sparsely punctate and wrinkled there ; 

 the basal margin of the eyes almost truncate ; the apical 

 joint of rostrum dark piceous. Pronotum obsoletely im- 

 pressed across the middle, transversely indented behind 

 the vertex and remotely punctate there, behind this the 

 svirface is more or less wrinkled; the lateral impressed 

 submargin punctate, and the margin strongly reflexed 

 and a little curved, the anterior angle subacuminately 

 produced; the humeral margin long, a little sinuated. 

 Scutellum and hemielytra covered with prostrate bronze- 

 yellow pubescence. Legs greenish yellow, with the nails 

 and incisures of the joints, the spines, and some minute 

 specks on the femora and tibiae, black; femora and tibise 

 with some obscure stripes; the middle coxas and pectoral 

 segments more or less black. Ventral segments broadly 

 bordered with black, this color sometimes expands into 

 spots on the connexivum, and each side of the middle 

 line. 



Length to tip of venter, 8-9 mm. Width of pronotum, 

 4^-4%' mm. 



One specimen was found at San Jose del Cabo by Dr. 

 Gustav Eisen. The types were found near San Diego, 

 October 19, by Mr. Shooter, to whom I take great pleas- 

 ure in dedicating this species. Specimens have since 

 been found at Los Angeles by Mr. Coquillett. 



Anisops elegans Fieber. A few specimens were col- 

 lected at Cape St. Lucas by Mr. John Xanthus. 



Anisops sp.? A specimen of unusually large size was 

 taken at Comondu, in March, bv Mr. C. D. Haines. 



