Vol. VIII] VAN DUZEE— NEW SPECIES HEMIPTERA 303 



May 19, 1917. The coarse orange dotting of this species will 

 serve to distinguish it. 



Holotype (No. 429), male, allotype (No. 430), female, 

 and paratypes in collection of the California Academy of 

 Sciences. 



33. Atomoscelis peregrinus, new species 



Color and aspect of Sthmarus cuneotinctus but aside from 

 generic characters it may be distinguished by its larger size and 

 uniformly pale antennae and legs; pale greenish with red 

 cuneus; length 3>4 mm. 



Head short, broad, vertical; clypeus prominent, abruptly bent so the 

 apex is inferior and almost horizontal ; its base on the hne connectmg the 

 antenna, the suture distinct; apex of head forming a right-angle; gula 

 wanting- vertex broad, moderately convex, ecannate at base. Antennae 

 reaching nearly to tip of clavus ; basal segment thick, not surpassing apex 

 of head; second as long as the pronotum and half the scutellum, two titths 

 the basal width of the pronotum. Rostrum a little surpassing the hind 

 cox£e in female, attaining the fifth ventral segment in male. Pronotum 

 short, trapezoidal, sides strongly oblique; callosities small, distinct; base 

 of scutellum covered. Elytra parallel or nearly so. Hind femora salta- 

 torial broadly flattened. Surface above clothed with minute deciduous 

 scale-like white hairs. Male claspers large, broad, plate-like; the dextra 

 nearly a parallelogram with its apex oblique and produced above ; sinistral 

 transverse with its dorsal and ventral angles subacute. 



Color pale yellowish becoming greenish on the elytra and abdomen or 

 at times altogether greenish ; cuneus red ; tarsi tipped with black, the legs 

 otherwise immaculate. 



Described from two male and thirty-one female examples 

 taken on Dalea schottii at Coachella, Calif., May 16, 1917. At 

 Palm Springs it was also taken in numbers, with its young, on 

 this Dalea and on Krameria canescens. 



Holotype (No. 431), male, allotype (No. 432), female, 

 from Coachella, and paratypes in collection of the California 

 Academy of Sciences. 



34. Tuponia lucida, new species 



Pale tender green with subhyaline elytra ; hind tibiae dotted 

 with black ; length about 4 mm. 



Head short, vertical, somewhat produced, the facial angle bein^ a little 

 less than a right angle ; produced below the eye for almost the length oi 

 the eye Vertex broad, quite convex, ecarinate at base. Clypeus broad, 

 flat at base with the basal suture nearly obsolete ; rounded and prominent 



