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the posterior ; collum broad, callosities prominent. Scutellum longer than 

 wide, as long as the pronotum. Costal margin of the elytra quite strongly 

 arcuated, their greatest combined width is to the basal as seven to five. 

 Legs very long ; hind femur nine times as long as wide, broadest before 

 middle ; hind tibiae nearly one half longer than their femora, their spines 

 scarcely longer than the thickness of the segment ; rostrum long attaining 

 middle of venter. 



Color whitish, becoming tinged with yellow on pronotum and scutellum; 

 head polished, fulvous, with a large black spot covering the front between 

 the antennae from middle of vertex to base of clypeus ; cheeks bilineate with 

 rufo-fuscous ; pronotum with an even black vitta before the white hind 

 edge ; elytra whitish tinged with yellow on the costa ; margin, nervures and 

 claval suture lineate with blackish ; disk with dark marks indicating two 

 transverse bands, tip of corium and of cuneus black; membrane whitish 

 hyaline, its apex and the border of the areoles maculated with fuscous ; 

 femora sparsely irrorate with fuscous; the apex of the hind pair infuscated; 

 apex of tibiae and tarsi blackish. Antennas pale, darkened by the short ap- 

 pressed hairs; apex of II broadly black; III and IV infuscated, the base of 

 the former pale. Upper surface clothed with appressed white hairs 

 with a few stiff black ones on the dark areas and on the collum. 



Described from four females taken by me at Huntington 

 Lake, Fresno Co., Cal., July 16-25, 1919, at an elevation of 

 7-9,000 feet. This large species is so distinct it can safely be 

 described from females alone. 



Holotype, female (No. 709), and paratypes in collection of 

 the California Academy of Sciences. 



26. Phytocoris barbatus, new species 



Similar to ciineatus Van D. in color with a mark on the 

 clavus, a transverse band on the corium and the cuneus 

 ochraceous ; head, pronotum, antennae and legs clothed with 

 scattering long erect hairs ; antennae and legs annulate. Length 

 6 mm. 



Male : Head oblique, produced before the eye for a space about equal 

 to the length of the eye ; gula nearly horizontal ; clypeus prominent ; vertex 

 flattened, the front more convex than in cuneatus. Antennae slender ; seg- 

 ment I as long as head and pronotum together, moderately thickened 

 toward the base and at immediate apex ; II not quite twice the length of I, 

 linear; (III broken, IV wanting in type) ; rostrum attaining hind coxae. 

 Pronotum much narrowed anteriorly, more than twice wider on hind 

 margin than on the anterior, its posterior width not quite twice its length ; 

 sides straight. Scutellum as long as the pronotum. Hind femora nearly as 

 long as corium and cuneus together, gradually tapering from near base, its 

 greatest width one ninth its length, its tibia nearly one half longer than the 

 femur. Genital segment large, convex ; sinistral notch deep, its fundus 

 acutely angled, its dorsal angle produced in a blunt tooth as long as its 

 basal width, this tooth seemingly terminating a projection of the last 

 tergite ; sinistral clasper broad, its apex oblique for half its length, its 

 dorsal angle rounded and apex subacute ; dextral clasper small, oblique and 

 subacute at apex. 



