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Color rufous-brown, moderately polished, the head a little darker ; 

 pronotum with an even black vitta before the slender pale hind margin ; 

 elytra with an obscurely paler area on the disk of corium and an angular 

 one at apex ; cuneus more rufous, blackish at tip and on inner edge ; 

 membrane fuscous, irregularly and confluently irrorate with pale, the veins 

 rufous. Beneath paler on the coxae and apex of genital segment. Legs 

 concolorous with upper surface, obscurely irrorate with paler ; tarsi paler 

 on the middle ; rostrum pale. Antennae a little paler ; segment I very 

 obscurely dotted with pale; II very narrowly pale at base, the pale portion 

 not longer than thickness of segment; III scarcely paler on immediate 

 base. Upper surface clothed with short stiff black hairs and deciduous 

 white tomentum. 



Described from two males from Mt. St. Helena, Napa Co., 

 Cal, June 9, 1918, four females from Colestin, Jackson Co., 

 Oreg., August 1, 1918, one male from Cayton, Shasta Co., 

 Cal., July 15, 1918, and one from Sisson, Cal., July 25, 1918, 

 all taken by myself on pines, and one male from Yosemite, 

 Cal., June, 1916, and one female from Tallac, Eldorado Co., 

 Cal., August 22, 1916, both taken by Mr. W. M. Giffard. 

 The almost uniform dark reddish brown color and the very 

 narrow pale annulus at base of second antennal segment will 

 distinguish this species. 



Holotype, male (No. 699) from Mt. St. Helena, allotype. 

 female (No. 700) from Cayton, and paratypes in collection of 

 California Academy of Sciences. 



21. Phytocoris maritimus, new species 



Aspect of rusticiis, smaller and more fuscous with the pale 

 annulus at base of second antennal segment longer and fol- 

 lowed by a darker band ; hind margin of pronotum and front 

 of hind femora blackish. Length nearly 6 mm. 



Male: Head about as in rusticus, little oblique, produced before the 

 eye for a space equal to two thirds the length of the eye. Antennae 

 rather short; segment I as long as from hind margin of pronotum to 

 middle of the eye, moderately stout, scarcely thicker at base, clothed with 

 appressed dark hairs and a few long slender bristles; II one half longer 

 than basal width of pronotum; III very little longer than basal width of 

 pronotum; IV as long as I. Pronotum twice longer than wide; elytral 

 costa scarcely arcuated. Hind femora short, about as long as second 

 antennal segment, nearly six times as long as wide, widest at basal third. 

 Rostrum attaining third ventral segment; spines on hind tibiae much 

 longer than thickness of the segment, distant. Genital segment long and 

 narrow; sinistral notch shallow, its dorsal angle retreating; sinistral 

 clasper small, black, convex, strongly obtusely angled dorsally near base, 

 apex paler, obtuse, incurved; dextral clasper ligulate, apex rounded and 

 armed above with an acute point; as long as the ventral wall of the notch. 



Color brownish fuscous, paler on head and anterior lobe of pronotum; 

 hind margin of pronotum with an even black vitta as in rusticus. the 



