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width of pronotum more than twice its length; scutellum equilateral. 

 Elytra as in sonorensis, more parallel than in minutulus; hind tibiae about 

 one half longer than their femora, the spines long and pale, rather 

 distant. Sinistral notch of genital segment rounded, the dorsal angle 

 retreating; sinistral clasper small and black, angled at base, its slender 

 apex abruptly rufous; dextral clasper narrow, terete, attaining apex of 

 the genital segment. 



Color cinereous with a slight pinkish tint; anterior lobe of pronotum 

 and venter rufous-brown, varied with darker, the collum with a white 

 median point ; front with six dark arcs, cheeks brown with two pale bands 

 that cross the clypeus, the base of the latter with an angled dark mark; 

 pronotum dark olive brown with a broken black band anterior to the 

 white hind edge ; scutellum marked with fuscous on the disk and with two 

 dark points before the apex. Elytra whitish, much varied with fuscous, 

 these marks tending to form two transverse bands ; angular apical spot on 

 corium indistinct; apical vein with a black point, the inner margin of 

 cuneus varied with black and white beyond the pale base ; membrane white 

 blotched and irrorate with fuscous, the veins pale becoming black at end 

 of the areoles. Legs white, the apex of the femora maculated with 

 fuscous, the posterior showing two pale annuli. Beneath pale with the 

 mesosternum and sides of the venter abruptly fuscous, the inferior sides 

 of pronotum black, bisected by a white line. Antennae pale brown, the 

 base of segments II and III white; I white, banded and dotted with fuscous 

 and armed with many erect stiff white bristles that are considerably longer 

 than the thickness of the segment; II showing a faint pale annulus beyond 

 the middle. Female not as clearly marked as male but otherwise similar. 



Described from two male and eight female examples taken 

 by me at Sweetwater Valley, near Alpine, San Diego Co., 

 Cal., June 18, 1913, and at La Jolla, Cal., July 14, 1914. 

 This neat little species much resembles plenus but aside from 

 sexual characters it may be distinguished by its smaller size, 

 the more hispid first antennal segment, the fuscous border to 

 the venter and especially by the equality of the last two 

 antennal segments. 



Holotype, male (No. 715), and allotype, female (No. 716), 

 in collection of California Academy of Sciences; paratypes in 

 collection of the author. 



19. Phytocoris carnosulus, new species 



Size and aspect of mimihihis Rent., differing in the irrorate 

 membrane and more varied maculation as well as the more 

 pinkish tint. Length 5 mm. 



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

 equal to two thirds the length of the eye ; front full ; clypeus very promi- 

 nent, regularly arcuated. Antennae rather short ; segment I three fourths 

 as long as basal width of pronotum, linear, with but few stiff hairs ; II a 

 little more than twice the length of I ; III and IV together longer than 

 II, III scarcely longer than IV. Pronotum twice as wide as long; 

 scutellum one fourth wider than long, the basal lobe well exposed ; elytral 

 costa feebly yet distinctly arcuated ; upper surface sparsely clothed with 



