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carinate margins broad and pale; anterior lobe impuctate ; posterior 
narrow, punctured, paler with two oblique discal vittz and the 
narrowly white at base. Femora irrorate with brown, the poste- 
rior darker toward the apex and marked with a pale annulus on 
the apical fourth, tibiz trianulate with fuscous, their apex and the 
tarsi black, the markings on the hind tibize obscure. Abdomen a 
little embrowned in the female or at times greenish. 
Described from numerous examples taken on a ragged looking 
weed growing at Alpine and elsewhere among the hills, July. The 
colors of this insect harmonize very well with the flower and fruit 
clusters over which it roams, making it difficult of detection. 
When taken in the net it is very active and difficult to capture. 
127. Phytocoris roseus Uhler. This graceful pretty species is 
occasionally taken on Eriogonum in June and July. 
128. Phytocoris canescens Reut. Abundant everywhere on sage- 
brush in both the long and short winged forms through the 
entire year. The brachypterous form has a black cuneate 
mark on the elytra. 
129. Creontiades rubrinerve Stal. San Diego, July; on Ambro- 
sia. 
130. Creontiades femoralis n. sp. 
Larger and stouter than rubrinerve, more or less marked 
with rufous; Femora mostly fuscous or almost black. Length 
7 mm. 
Head convex above, the surface distinctly striate and the me- 
dian sulcus conspicuous, yellowish-testaceous, irrorate with rufous. 
Basal joint of the antenne shorter and much stouter than in 
rubrinerve, subfusiform, irrorate with sanguineous and armed 
with a few black bristles; second and third subequal in length and 
linear, each about twice the length of the first, obscure rufous; 
fourth paler, slender, nearly as long as the first. Rostrum reach- 
ing to the hind coxe, pale, black at tip. Pronotum broader at apex 
than in rubrinerve; pallid with an obscure fuscous cloud along 
the hind margin before the scutellum and there may be a few 
fuscous dots scattered about the anterior and lateral surfaces. 
Scutellum pale, the extreme tip black, the base with a fuscous 
cloud bisected by a pale median vitta, about the disk are a few 
fuscous points. Elytra pallid, quite regularly dotted with minute 
fuscous points and marked with sanguineous along the costa and 
on the margins of the cuneus. Membrane pallid, the nervures con- 
colorous. Beneath more or less marked with rufous; the femora 
and tibiz in part minutely dotted with sanguineous, the posterior 
femora deepened to piceous black beyond the middle. 
Described from two females taken at Pine Hills in October. 
The more convex vertex, thicker basal joint of the antenne, pale 
testaceous color, the fuscous cloud on the base of the pronotum 
and scutellum and the piceous hind femora will distinguish this 
species. It has the broader form of Hustictus but wants the pol- 
ished punctured surface of that genus. 
131. Poecilocapsus nigriger Stal. Taken in numbers on the white 
sage at Mussey’s in April; occasional elsewhere. 
