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exterior edge pale ; elj'tra with a broad obscure transverse fuscous band 

 at basal fourth covering most of the clavus ; apex of corium with a fairly 

 distinct angled pale polished spot preceded by a fuscous mark ; costal 

 margin varied with fuscous ; cuneus pale with inner margin and apex 

 blackish ; membrane fuscous, sparsely and obscurely irrorate with pale 

 and leaving a pale spot at apex of cuneus ; veins pale at apex. Venter 

 tinged with rufous and varied with fuscous ; breast mostly black, the coxae 

 white ; male genital segment infuscated ; femora rufous-brown irregularly 

 dotted with pale, paler at base, the posterior pair blackish anteriorly; 

 anterior and intermediate tibiae pale with about three fuscous annuli, the 

 posterior dotted with fuscous. Antennae pale brown becoming darker at 

 apex; segment I fuscous obscurely dotted with pale; II with a basal white 

 annulus three times as long as thickness of the segment, followed by a 

 somewhat wider fuscous cloud. Upper surface with black hairs inter- 

 mixed with white tomentum as in rusticus. 



Described from two males and four females taken at Car- 

 mel, Cal., March 24, 1919. In this species and rusticus the 

 irrorate aspect of the elytra is wanting, the pattern of mark- 

 ing being more as in cunealis. 



Holotype, male (No. 701), and allotype, female (No. 702), 

 and paratypes in collection of California Academy of Sciences. 



22. Phytocoris stellatus, new species 



Allied to maritimiis with the size and aspect somewhat of 

 conspersipes Reut., reddish or testaceous brown with scatter- 

 ing pale points bearing clusters of deciduous white hairs, body 

 clothed with long black hairs in places; second antennal seg- 

 ment with narrow pale base. Length 6 mm. 



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

 nearly equal to the width of the eye ; vertex flat, about as wide as an 

 eye ; front scarcely convex ; eyes large, prominent, round when viewed from 

 above. Antennae short ; segment I scarcely longer than the pronotum, 

 linear; II almost three times as long as I; III and IV together equal to 

 II, III a little the longer. Pronotum more than twice wider than long; 

 elytra almost parallel. Hind femora about six times longer than wide, 

 widest at basal third ; rostrum reaching apex of hind coxae. Head, pro- 

 notum and elj'tra rather thickly clothed with decumbent stiff black hairs 

 that are as long as the thickness of the hind tibiae, those on head and 

 anterior margin of pronotum longer, procumbent or nearly erect ; seg- 

 ment I of antennae with numerous erect stiff bristles longer than the 

 thickness of the segment ; gula and lower surface with a few pale hairs. 

 Sinistral clasper nearly terete, slender, its base without the dorsal angle 

 found in the allied species, its apex recurved and slender ; dextral clasper 

 slender, little flattened, just passing apex of genital segment. 



Color rufous or testaceous-brown varied with pale ; hind edge of pro- 

 notum white, preceded by six or eight black spots forming an interrupted 

 band ; vertex with a median pale yellow vitta ; pronotum and elytra with 

 scattering round white spots bearing clusters of silvery hairs, these 

 sometimes segregated in a median and an apical spot, connected along the 

 claval suture; membrane subhyaline with rufous veins and faint clouding. 



