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Color whitish, tinged with fulvous in the female. Eyes, clypeus, a 

 round spot behind either callosity, which may be so extended as to cover 

 most of the posterior disk of the pronotum, and a large round spot on the 

 propleura ; meso- and meta-pleurte and most of the abdomen in the male 

 fuscous ; anterior margin of the meta-pleura and a series of transverse 

 vittas either side of the venter of the female fuscous or black. Slender 

 scutellar and commissural margins of the clavus fuscous, the sutural margin 

 whitish ; male with the inner field of both the clavus and corium infus- 

 cated ; corium of the female with a longitudinal median fuscous ray and 

 whitish costa. Membrane infuscated with pale ncrvures ; in the female 

 paler with a darker ray behind the areoles. Legs and antennje whitish, 

 the former immaculate with concolorous bristles. 



Described from one male taken by me at Tallac, July 25, 

 1915, and a female taken by Mr. Giffard in Niles Canyon in 

 May, 1916. This female has a decidedly fulvous tinge and the 

 basal lobe of the scutellum is bright fulvous and it may rep- 

 resent a distinct species. The shorter and more convex pro- 

 notum and less produced head make this species aberrant in 

 this genus. It should perhaps go in Phyllis but the male geni- 

 tal segment certainly is not carinate. 



Holotype (No. 351), male, from Tallac, in the collection 

 of the California Academy of Sciences. 



Allotype, female, from Alameda Co., in collection of Mr. 

 Giffard. 



159. Psallus pantherinus, new species 



Size and form of guttulosus nearly; most closely allied to sulphurcus; 

 smaller than guttulosus, with the membrane irrorate ; dots on the upper 

 surface coarser than in either of those species. Length 3}^ mm. 



Head nearly vertical, shorter than in the allied species, the facial angle 

 but little more than a right angle ; vertex between the eyes nearly quad- 

 rangular ; clypeus rather broad, especially in immature examples ; lorae 

 short and broad ; cheeks narrow ; gula short and horizonal. Rostrum 

 reaching nearly or quite to the base of the venter; first joint just attain- 

 ing the base of the head. Antennae rather short ; first segment but little 

 surpassing the tip of the clypeus ; second about as long as the basal width 

 of the pronotum, in the male cylindrical, as thick as the first; in the 

 female slender; third and fourth slender; third two-fifths the length of 

 the second ; fourth three-fourths of the third. Pronotum proportionately 

 shorter and broader than in either of the other species, much shorter than 

 the scutellum, scarcely longer than the head when viewed at right angles 

 to the plane of the latter; its length about two-thirds its basal width; an- 

 terior angles well rounded ; posterior margin straight, leaving the base of 

 the scutellum broadly exposed; callosities small, scarcely discernible; an- 

 terior margin broadly flattened ; upper surface rather sparsely clothed 

 with pale hairs. 



Color pale greenish white. Face more or less strongly tinged with 

 fulvous and showing a pale basal mark and median longitudinal line. Pro- 

 notum, scutellum and elytra irregularly and not very densely dotted with 

 olive or fulvous brown ; these dots are coarser than in the allied species 

 and tend to form rings enclosing pale areas ; on the pronotum they are 



