HEMIPTERA. VAN DUZEE. 23 
propleura and most of the venter pale, the basal disk of the latter 
and the genital segment largely black. Femora with a dusky sub- 
apical annulus. 
Described from four female examples taken on the oak mistle- 
toe, Phorodendron villosum, growing on oaks at Pine Hill in Oc- 
tober, 1913. The bullate impunctate elytra and transverse head 
would almost seem to warrant the erection of a new genus for this 
species but it is no more distinct from Camptobrochis than are 
some of the other genera Dr. Reuter has sunk as synonyms and it 
seems best for the present to place it as a section of that genus. I 
have been unable to make out the aroliz#. The depth of coloring is 
undoubtedly subject to variation. 
144. Peociloscytus uhleri n. n. (P. intermedius Uhler, Proc. Calif. 
cad. Sci., Ser. IV, p. 261, 1891; not of Jakowl., 1876.) 
The species I am identifying as intermedius Uhler is very 
abundant through the spring. It differs from Uhler’s de- 
scription in many points, but I cannot believe it distinct. 
It is larger and more fulvous in color than basalis with the 
basal joint of the antenne pale, the femora darker toward 
their apex but not distinctly annulated, the vertex is more 
convex and wants the striz and the male genital characters 
are appreciably different. It is extremely variable in color 
as is basalis, some individuals being largely black above. 
[A recent comparison with the Uhler type now in the col- 
lection of the California Academy of Science shows this de- 
termination to be correct. ] 
145. Poeciloscytus elegans Reut. I have taken this pretty little 
Capsid on a species of Galium which grows on the dry, rocky 
hillsides in the back country, May and June. 
Genus Pycnocoris n. gen. 
Evidently allied to Poeciloscytus but with somewhat the as- 
pect of a heavy Neurocolpus. Distinguished by the rough opake 
surface of the body, the short, greatly thickened first two antennal 
joints, the short and abruptly slender apical joints and the tumid 
scutellum. Whole surface clothed with short whitish scale-like 
hairs intermixed above with short black bristles. 
Form stout, broadly ovate-oblong. Head nearly vertical but 
less so than in Newrocolpus and broader when viewed from above. 
Base of the vertex without a carina; clypeus arcuated and promi- 
nent. Antenne short and thick; first joint as long as the width of 
the vertex and one eye, stout and cylindrical nearly to its base; 
second twice the length of the first, clavate, the apical two fifths 
nearly as thick as the first joint; third and fourth abruptly slen- 
der, together not as long as the first, fourth two thirds the length 
of the third. Pronotum transverse, sloping strongly to the head, 
sides nearly straight, collum slender, callosities poorly defined, 
hind margin nearly rectilinear across the scutellum. Disk of the 
scutellum strongly tumid. Elytra broad, almost parallel, the costa 
slightly expanded near the base, surface rough but scarcely punc- 
tate. Membrane a little surpassing the tip of the abdomen. Ros- 
