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10. Phytocoris ingens, new species 



Large and broad, oblong, pale grey, quite evenly dotted 

 with fuscous points, those along the costa larger. Length 8 ; 

 width 3 mm. 



Male: Head short, vertical, projecting below the eye for a space less 

 than the width of the eye below the antennae; eyes very large, below 

 attaining the line of the bucculae ; vertex depressed, narrow, its least width 

 about half that of the eye viewed from above ; front flat ; clypeus promi- 

 nent, convex, projecting strongly above the plane of the front; cheeks 

 tumidly convex. Antennae slender; segment I nearly as long as from its 

 base to hind margin of pronotum, a very little thickened basally; II rnore 

 slender, as long as from base of scutellum to apex of clavus; III a httje 

 longer than commissural margin of clavus; IV (wanting in male) in 

 female one half of II. Length of pronotum two fifths its basal width; 

 hind margin broadly rounded; callosities distinguished by a deep suture. 

 Scutellum as long as pronotum, its basal field well exposed; hind fernora 

 nearly seven times as long as wide, gradually tapering from basal third; 

 hind tibia one half longer than its femur, its spines short, not longer than 

 thickness of the segment. Sinistral notch of genital segment right-angled, 

 the dorsal angle produced in a blunt tooth arising from an extension of 

 the dorsal tergite and lying beneath the margin of the genital segment; 

 sinistral clasper of medium size, curved at apex, with a prominent obtuse 

 shoulder near its base; dextral clasper small, blunt at apex, lying along 

 the ventral wall of the notch. 



Color cinereous, tinged with fulvous on the head, callosities, basal lobe 

 of scutellum and abdomen ; propectus, sides of the venter basally, a broad 

 vitta on the sides of the pronotum inferiorly and a narrow line below 

 this, blackish, the genital segment with a fuscous cloud either side. Above 

 minutely but quite regularly dotted with fuscous, these dots imperfectly 

 segregated into larger spots along the veins and costal margin; apex of 

 corium with a black point near the angle of the cuneus ; membrane white, 

 regularly dotted with fuscous points, the veins dull fulvous. Antennae 

 pale brownish; base of II and III broadly paler; I pale with about six 

 fuscous marks exteriorly. Femora varied viath fuscous on apical half; 

 tibia with about three imperfect fuscous annuli, usually but one distinct. 

 Upper surface sparsely clothed with stiff black hairs intermixed with 

 pale ones on head and pronotum and short white deciduous tomentum. 

 Female with fuscous markings beneath less extended. 



Described from two males and two females taken by Mr. 

 Fordyce Grinnell at Pasadena, Calif. 



Holotype, male (No. 687), and allotype, female (No. 688), 

 in collection of the California Academy of Sciences. Para- 

 types in collection of the author. 



1 1 . Phytocoris aurora, new species 



Allied to palmcri but with more cinereous elytra and differ- 

 ent male genitalia. Length 7 mm. ; width 2 mm. 



Male : Head oblique, produced beyond the eye for a space equal to the 

 greatest v/idth of the eye ; front little convex, clypeus moderately so. 



