HEMIPTERA. VAN DUZEE. 1133 
which just pass the middle of the tergum, infuscated and pale-irro- 
rate, the antenne want the long hairs. 
101. Conorhinus protractus Uhler. Common in nests of the wood 
rat. 
102. Rasahus thoracicus Stal. Common in houses about lights 
from July to October. It bites severely when carelessly 
handled. I can see no object in uniting this form with bi- 
guttatus Say. 
103. Apiomerus crassipes Fabr. Common everywhere on flowers 
from May to October. As found here this species is black 
with the anterior coxe femora below and sometimes a sub- 
apical annulus, an annulus near the base of the anterior 
tibie and the base of the costa sanguineous; connexivum 
and hind margin of the pronotum narrowly pale. The spe- 
cies shows little tendency to variation here. 
104. Diplocodus exsanguis Stal. Alpine, October. There is no 
occasion for uniting this with luridus Stal. 
105. Pindus socius Uhler. Common from March to October. 
106. Rhynocoris ventralis var. femoralis n. var. 
This variety differs from the typical ventralis in being soiled 
testaceous where that is red, although it may become fulvous on 
the legs and antenne or even tinged with sanguineous. The anten- 
nz are of an obscure testaceous; the legs are black with a quadrate 
spot on the lower surface of the femora, and the tibz except at 
base, pallid. The coriaceous portion of the corium is a clear testa- 
ceous. 
Described from three females taken on the dry granite hill- 
sides at Lakeside in May and at Alpine in June. 
Variety americanus Bergr. is very close to the typical ventralis 
but has the red a little more extended. Another variety from Fel- 
ton, California, in my collection is very near femovalis having the 
same testaceous color but in this the anterior lobe of the pronotum 
and the legs are soiled testaceous, the latter with the apex of the 
femora, the base and apex of the tibiz and a subapical annulus on 
the hind femora black. The single female specimen was taken by 
Dr. J. C. Bradley in the foot hills of the Santa Cruz mountains in 
March 1907. It may be called (107) var. annulipes. The typical 
ventralis seems to be more common in Colorado and Utah although 
I have one example taken at Pasadena, California, by Mr. Fordyce 
Grinnell in July. 
108. Pselliopus spinicollis Champ. Taken frequently on a low 
bush which has a remarkably strong sickening odor, from 
March to August. I have been unable to determine this 
shrub which rarely grows more than two feet in height. It 
has much the aspect of a Solanum but may be more nearly 
allied to Arctostaphylus. The leaves are small and linear. 
109. Heza similis Stal. One example taken June 18th, 1913, from 
a live oak tree in the Sweetwater Valley. It has not before 
been recorded from our territory. 
