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gin of pronotum paler; narrow costal margins and cuneus whitish, the latter 

 tinged with pink and edged with fuscous; membrane smoky black; legs 

 blackish; lower surface blackish varied with reddish, the propleura whitish; 

 gula and sternum black. 



Described from three males taken by me at Bryson, Mon- 

 terey Co., Calif., May 18, 1920. This is the smallest west- 

 ern species of Lopidea known to me and is quite distinct by 

 its brown color with pale costal line and cuneus and the 

 very distinct male genital characters. 



Holotype, male, No. 777, Mus. Calif. Acad. Sci.; para- 

 types in collection of the Academy. 



Type locality, Bryson, Monterey County, Calif. 



20. Lopidea discreta, new species 



A large dark red species allied to nigridea, but with the 

 red coloring of heidemanni; male claspers much as in nigri- 

 dea. Length 6 x / 2 mm. 



Surface moderately polished, sparsely clothed with oblique stiff black hairs 

 a* long as the thickness of the fourth antennal segment; segment II of an- 

 tennae a fifth longer than basal width of pronotum; sides of pronotum rectili- 

 near. Sinistral male clasper small, linear, abruptly incurved at apex; 

 dextral shaped much as in niqridea but broader and more sinuated ventrally 

 with the vertical apical margin rectilinear, its lower (ventral) angle armed 

 with two continguous teeth as long as their combined width ; sinus at base 

 of long apical spur with a short but distinct tooth. 



Color, sanguineous; basal margin of pronotum, scutellum, clavus and conum 

 as far as ulnar nervure much darker or even black; callosities, base of 

 vertex, a double vitta on front, clypeus, sutures of cheeks, antenna;, rostrum, 

 legs, pectus and venter in part black, the propleura bright red; membrane 

 deep fuscous. 



Described from 24 specimens representing both sexes, 

 taken at Huntington Lake, Fresno Co., Calif., during the 

 last week of July, at an elevation of 7,000 feet. They oc- 

 curred in numbers on elderberry bushes, on a blue-flowered 

 lupine, and on a species of Vicia. It might be best to con- 

 sider this a race or variety of nigridea, but it seems to me 

 its characters on the whole are of specific value. 



Holotype, male, No. 778, and allotype, female, No. 779, 

 Mus. Calif. Acad. Sci.; paratypes in Academy's collection. 



Type locality, Huntington Lake, Fresno County, Calif. 



