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tlie present the following are the principal works concerned in 

 this part of the Catalogue : 



Stal; ^'Hemiptera," in Eugenie's Resa, Ins. (1860). 



Stal: ^'Enumeratio Hem.," in Svensk. Vet. Handl. 1870-6. 



Uhler : ''List of Hemiptera of the region west of the Missis- 

 sippi River," in Bull. TJ. S. Geol. Survey, II, 269-361, 

 Pis. 19-21 (1876). 



Uhler: ^'Report Upon the Insects Collected .. .. During the 



Explorations of 1875 ," in Bull. U. S. Geol. Survey, 



III, 355-475, Pis. 27-8 (1877). 



Van Duzee : "Annotated List of the Pentatomidte Recorded 

 from America l^orth of Mexico," in Tr. Amer. E. S., 

 XXX, 1-80 (1904). 



SUBOKDEK HeTEKOPTEKA. 

 FAMILY CIjSIICIDAE. 



1. Apateticus pallens (Stal). San Francisco (Uhler) ; 



Mountain View (Ehrhorn). 

 This species differs from modestus by the much longer 

 ventral spine, and by the flavescent urotergites ; from 

 serieventris by the ventral median spots grading small- 

 er posteriorly, the longer ventral spine, etc. 



2. A. maculiventris (Say). 



3. A. hracteatus var. crocata (I'hler). 



4. Perilloides oeulatus (Fabricius). 



5. P. splendidus rUhler). San Diego (Uhler) ; Los Ange- 



les (Van Duzee). 



6. ? Stiretrus ancherago (Fabricius). 



I have not seen adults from California, nor have 

 the}^ been recorded, but some nymphs collected by Mr. 

 GifFard on Santa Barbara foothills (June, 1907,) and 

 San Francisco (July, 1907,) can scarcely refer to any- 

 thing else. They may be described as follows : 



Shining indigo-blue; antennae, labium and legs black with a bluish 

 gleam in part; a large median spot on metanotum immediately behind 

 the junction of the lower wing-pads, the sterna, coxae, trochanters, and 



a narrow, curved, sublateral stripe down the urosternites vermilion. 



The head and nota with the wing-pads are finely rugulose (more 

 coarsely on the last) ; the abdomen is also finely rugulose but is also 



