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Color pale yellowish ochraceous becoming deeper fulvous on the pro- 

 notum, femora and beneath ; elytra whitish or lurid with an oblong area 

 on middle of clavus, a broad band across corium and the apex of the clavus 

 and of the cuneus fulvous ; membrane white, sparsely irrorate with fulvous 

 at base and apex. Antennae blackish ; segment I varied with pale ; II with 

 a broad white annulus at base and another just beyond the middle; III 

 pale at base; I and base of II clothed with a few scattering erect stiff 

 white hairs, the longest as long as the horizontal diameter of the eyes. 

 Legs ochraceous, clothed with short appressed fuscous hairs and very long 

 erect white bristles, even longer and stouter than those on the antennae; 

 tibiae with either end and three broad annuli dusky; cheeks and clypeus 

 infuscated, the neck with two fuscous lines behind the eye, visible when the 

 head is exserted. 



Described from one male taken by Mr. Fordyce Grinnell at 

 Pasadena, Cal. The hairs in this species are much longer than 

 in hirtiis. 



Holotype (No. 710) in collection of California Academy of 

 Sciences. 



27. Camptobrochys borealis, new species 



Closely allied to nitens, differing principally in the form of 

 the male claspers; antennae darker; scutellum less convex. 

 Length 7 mm. 



Head as in nitens and grandis; smooth and polished above. Antennae 

 with segments I and II a little stouter than in either allied species ; I ex- 

 ceeding the tylus by a little more than half its length, in nitens by scarcely 

 more than one third its length ; II three fifths the basal width of the pro- 

 notum; III a fourth longer than IV, these together about equal to II. 

 Pronotum as in grandis but the punctures less coarse and deep, the cal- 

 losities well elevated, smooth and polished, broader and more conspicuous 

 than in nitens. Scutellum as in grandis, less convex than in nitens; em- 

 bolium sometimes entirely without punctures, the elytra otherwise as in the 

 allied species. Rostrum attaining the apex of the intermediate coxae. 

 Hairy vestiture of the antennas longer than in grandis, about as in nitens. 



Color variable as in the allied species averaging darker than in nitens 

 and paler than in grandis; fulvotestaceous varied with piceous or brown 

 and coarsely punctate with blackish ; pronotum mostly piceous with the 

 margins and broad median Hne pale, the callosities deep black; vertex 

 pale with a broad longitudinal piceous vitta either side, in pale examples 

 represented by a blackish spot between the eyes ; clypeus bivittate with 

 piceous. Scutellum brown with a broad piceous vitta either side, the 

 margins and apex of the median vitta broadly whitish; in nitens the scu- 

 tellum is yellowish with the piceous vittas more or less strongly indicated ; 

 in grandis black with the apex and narrow median line and lateral margins 

 at base pale. Elytra clouded, becoming piceous on base of clavus and 

 disk of corium, the embolium pale. Membrane fuliginous with the broad 

 basal margin and a large area at apex of cuneus pale or hyaline, the cuneus 

 hyaline with a fuscous apex. Antennae fuscous brown, the incisures and 

 apical two segments paler brown. Rostrum and legs pale testaceous, the 

 apex of the rostrum, femora and tarsi darker, the hind femora often 

 piceous on their apical one half. Beneath varied with testaceous and 

 brown, becoming blackish on the venter in the male. 



