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especially about the apex. Legs pale rufous dotted with whitish, the 

 posterior darker and clothed with long brown hairs ; spines of hind tibiae 

 long, pale. Antennse pale brown ; segment I pale and dotted with fuscous ; 

 II becoming black at apex, its base with a white annulus not longer than 

 thickness of the segment. Body beneath castaneous, the coxae whitish. 

 Female a little broader and more rufous than male. 



Described from one male and two females taken by me on 

 pines at Carmel, Cal, March 24, 1919. 



Holotype, male (No. 703), and allotype, female (No. 704), 

 and paratype in collection of California Academy of Sciences. 



23. Phytocoris commissuralis, new species 



Size and form of fenestratiis Rent., nearly; mottled ash- 

 grey, base of second antennal segment clear white; commis- 

 sural margin of clavus whitish, immaculate ; membrane white, 

 conspicuously dotted with blackish. Length 8 mm. 



Male : Head nearly vertical, much produced, length below the eye equal 

 to length of eye ; vertex flat, front slightly swollen. Antennse of medium 

 length ; segment I about as long as head and pronotum together when 

 viewed vertically, a little thickened toward base, basally armed with stout 

 bristles, mostly white and as long as the thickness of the segment; II fully 

 twice the length of I; III nearly as long as basal width of pronotum; IV 

 two thirds of I. Pronotum a little more than twice wider than long. Hind 

 femora six times as long as wide, widest at basal one fourth ; spines of hind 

 tibi« as long as thickness of the segment. Rostrum passing middle of 

 venter. Upper surface clothed with flattened deciduous black and white 

 hairs, the collum and base of vertex with the usual long bristles or lashes. 

 Sinistral genital notch shallow, rounded ; sinistral clasper broad, angularly 

 toothed dorsally near the base and again before apex of the ventral exten- 

 sion of the genital segment, its apex covered; dextral clasper rather long, 

 curved, angled exteriorly above the base. 



Color cinereous-grey much varied with fuscous. Head and anterior lobe 

 of pronotum whitish with a few feruginous marks ; cheeks bilineate with 

 black ; posterior lobe of pronotum infuscated, forming a sinuated vitta or 

 six black tufted spots before the white posterior margin; scutellum pale, 

 the basal lobe black trilineate with fulvous, apex black with the median line 

 and a short one either side whitish. Elytra varied with fuscous, especially 

 at base and along the veins, the commissural margin of the clavus broadly 

 pale; cuneus pale, its inner margin marked with black; membrane white, 

 sprinkled with numerous vermiculate marks, the veins heavy, fuscous. 

 Femora white varied with fuscous, the posterior with a white subapical' 

 vitta ; tibife triannulate with black, these confused on the hind pair ; tarsi 

 pale medially; beneath largely black, the coxae white. Female broader than 

 male with the venter paler. 



Described from two males and two females taken by me at 

 Huntington Lake, Fresno Co., Cal, July 24, 1919, at an alti- 

 tude of 7,000 feet. 



Holotype, male (No. 705), allotype, female (No. 706), and 

 paratypes in collection of California Academy of Sciences. 



