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Color obscure testaceous-grey clouded with fuscous; head black at 

 apex with a transverse white vitta below the antennae. Antennae brown; 

 segment I black dotted with white; II with a white annulus at base and 

 an obscure one beyond the middle; III white at base. Pronotum fuscous, 

 clothed with black hairs; hind margin white, preceded by six black spots 

 bearing tufts of black hairs ; scutellum with a double fuscous vitta, diverg- 

 ing posteriorly leaving a pale median line expanded at apex. Discal 

 region of elytra fuscous ; costa brown, becoming black at apex of corium, 

 varied with pale dots; apex of corium with a polished angular pale spot; 

 cuneus pale, mottled, becoming black at apex and on internal margin; 

 membrane fuscous closely irrorate with pale; nervures fuscous, white at 

 apex. Femora pale at base, fuscous and irrorate with pale at apex ; tibiae 

 blackish with three broad white annuli. Beneath black, coxae paler, rostrum 

 rufous. Female paler and more clearly marked above than male. 



Described from two males taken by me at Alpine, San 

 Diego Co., Cal., June 7, 1913, and two females taken on the 

 Cuyamaca Mts. at Descanso, Cal., at 5,000 feet elevation, 

 October 5, 1913. 



Holotype, male (No. 692), in collection of the California 

 Academy of Sciences. Allotype, female, and paratypes in col- 

 lection of the author. 



14. Phytocoris calvus, new species 



Form and aspect of sonorensis nearly, a little smaller and 

 more reddish in color ; head and anterior margin of pronotum 

 pale yellowish; second antennal segment obscurely annulated; 

 coxae white; membrane irrorate; apex of corium with angular 

 polished pale spot. Length 6 mm. 



Male : Head short, nearly vertical, produced below the eye for a space 

 equal to greatest width of eye; front full, clothed with long procumbent 

 white hair ; clypeus feebly arcuate ; vertex flat, as wide as the eyes viewed 

 from above. Antennae slender; segment I but little shorter than basal 

 width of pronotum ; II three fourths longer than I ; III one fourth longer 

 than I, IV as much shorter ; I armed with a cluster of long white hairs 

 exteriorly near the base. Pronotum a little more than twice broader 

 than long. Scutellum a little broader than long, its length subequal to 

 that of the pronotum ; upper surface clothed with short black hairs inter- 

 mixed with flattened black hairs and white tomentum; tibial spines long 

 and stout, rufous-brown. Sinistral notch of genital segment rectangular, 

 armed with - a large acute tooth above which is produced backward ; 

 sinistral clasper attaining tip of genital segment, at base with a dorsal 

 obtusely angular tooth; dextral notch with a short acute tooth above, the 

 clasper filling the ventral portion of the notch and attaining its apex. 



Color rufous-brown, but slightly maculated ; head and anterior portion 

 of pronotum yellowish white ; base of vertex with an angular pale fulvous 

 vitta ; clypeus with an angular mark and spot at base fulvous-brown, the 

 cheeks still darker with a white suture, a spot at base of antennae white 

 edged with brown. Pronotum posteriorly castaneous brown with a sinuate 

 black vitta before the white basal margin. Scutellum feebly varied with 



