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short grey hairs interspersed with longer black ones, the fringe of long 

 hairs, or lashes, on the collum conspicuous. Hind femora about seven 

 times as long as wide, tapering from before the middle ; hind tibiae with 

 but few short erect spines. Sinistral notch of genital segment right- 

 angled, with a large blunt tooth above forming the apex of the produced 

 angle of the last tergite ; sinistral clasper with a rounded angle dorsally 

 about one third from base, the sinuate apex attaining the tip of the seg- 

 ment; dextral clasper ligulate, its rounded apex just passing the tip of the 

 segment. 



Color pale testaceous or whitish with a faint tinge of pink on the 

 elytra ; head and pronotum brownish fulvous the apex of the clypeus, disk 

 of the cheeks, sides of pronotum above and below and the collum, except 

 at middle, fuscous or black. Scutellum black or mostly so, with a pale 

 apex and an orange spot either side on the basal lobe. Elytra irregularly 

 mottled with fuscous forming a blackish cloud on base and apex of clavus 

 and on basal third and inner angle of corium; apical angle of corium 

 fuscous ; angular pale apical spot scarcely indicated ; costa white dotted 

 with fuscous ; cuneus pale with fuscous apex ; membrane whitish, sparsely 

 irrorate with pale brown, the areoles mostly brown, margin with two white 

 spots beyond the cuneus, veins fuscous, pale at apex. Beneath mostly 

 fuscous, the prosternum and coxae whitish. Legs whitish, the femora 

 maculated toward their apex, the posterior showing a broad vitta before 

 the apex, the tibiae with their base and three annuli fuscous. Antennae 

 pale brown, the narrow base of segments II and III white ; I white, macu- 

 lated with brown forming about two broad bands. Female with the 

 elytral markings more diffuse and the pale annulus on the hind femora 

 scarcely distinguished. 



Described from two male and two female examples taken 

 at Prescott, Arizona, July 1, 1917, by Mr. C. A. Hill. The 

 faint pinkish tinge is more pronounced in the male and may 

 not persist long after the specimen has become dry. 



Holotype, male (No. 697), and allotype, female (No. 698), 

 and paratypes in collection of California Academy of Sciences. 



20. Phytocoris rusticus, new species 



Related to inops Uhler but darker and less maculated with 

 the tibiae unicolorous. Length 6%. mm. 



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

 little less than the length of the eye ; vertex flat ; front moderately convex. 

 Antennae as long as in inops; segment I a fourth longer than the prono- 

 tum, moderately stout, a very little thicker near the base, armed with a 

 few erect bristles longer than the thickness of the segment; II almost 

 twice the length of I ; III about one half of II ; IV as long as pronotum. 

 Rostrum attaining apex of hind coxae. Pronotum twice wider than long; 

 costal margin of elytra very feebly arcuated; hind femora lenticular, 

 Avidest a little before the middle, about five times as long as wide; hind 

 tibiae as long as elytra to tip of cuneus, with a double row of about 

 12 spines. Sinistral genital notch hardly right-angled, its dorsal angle 

 rounded; sinistral clasper broad with a large blunt tooth dorsally, the 

 attenuated apical member curved in conformity with the contour of the 

 segment and terminating beneath the dextral clasper; the latter broad and 

 flat, angled near its base, arcuated, and passing the truncated apex of the 

 segment. 



