Vol. Vni] VAN DUZEE— NEW SPECIES HEMIPTERA 305 



36. Plagiognathus pictipes, new species 



Above pale greenish becoming yellowish on the head; be- 

 neath and legs piceous or almost castaneous, somewhat irrorate 

 with pale ; abdomen green ; length 3 mm. 



Head narrower than in Europiella stigmosa, but little more than half the 

 basal width of the pronotum, vertical before, the face scarcely inferior as in 

 Europiella ; clypeus but little prominent, the basal suture distinct but not 

 deep, a little above the insertion of the antennse ; facial angle rather less 

 than a right angle; gula none. Rostrum attaining the base of the inter- 

 mediate coxcc; basal segment dilated, just passing the base of the head. 

 Antennae short; first segment hardly attaining apex of clypeus; second as 

 long as the width of head across the eyes ; third two thirds the length of 

 second; fourth two thirds of third. Pronotum but little declinate ante- 

 riorly, the callosities obvious but not prominent; basal lobe of scutellum 

 covered. Costal margin of elytra but feebly arcuated ; the abdomen of the 

 female reaching half way from tip of cuneus to apex of membrane. Hind 

 femora broad, compressed; hind tarsi with the third segment scarcely 

 longer than second. Characters of male claspers obscure, the sinistral 

 small, transverse. 



Color above pale greenish or whitish, becoming yellowish or even fulvous 

 on the head ; beneath clear pale green marked with fuscous_ or dark cas- 

 taneous on lower surface of head and on the breast. Legs whitish, coarsely, 

 irregularly dotted with blackish castaneous, at times becoming almost en- 

 tirely black, especially on the hind femora ; all the tibiae white with white 

 spines springing from small black points ; tarsal claws black ; oviduct of 

 female sometimes infuscated. Apex of the antennae infuscated, the basal 

 segment more or less marked with castaneous. Elytra immaculate greenish. 

 Membrane whitish hyaline, faintly irrorate with dusky, nervures pale. 

 Wings whitish hyaline, highly iridescent. 



Described from one male and nine female examples taken at 

 Coachella, Calif., near the railway station, May 13, 1916. The 

 single male is immature indicating that as in decolor the male 

 appears later than the female. This species like decolor has the 

 aspect and general characters of Europiella but the form of the 

 head and pronotum are those of Plagiognathus. In a measure 

 they seem to connect these two genera. In the present species 

 the upper surface is clothed with matted white hairs with some 

 longer fuscous ones intermixed on the corium and cuneus. 



Holotype (No. 436), female, allotype (No. 437), male, and 

 paratypes in collection of the California Academy of Sciences. 



37. Europiella sparsa, new species 



A small thick-set pale greenish white insect, thickly clothed 

 above with deciduous scale-like white hairs intermixed on the 

 elytra with longer fuscous ones; femora and tibiae dotted; 

 length 3 mm. 



