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Color fuscous-brown, obsoletely irrorated with pale on the 
head, pronotum and scutellum; clypeus, femora and abdomen black 
or nearly so, sometimes white pruinose; the latter with margins of 
the segments narrowly touched with fulvous. Anterior and inter- 
mediate tibiz pale, tipped with fuscous. Elytra whitish, nearly 
opake, nervures and stigma fuscous, the former with large black 
punctures bearing black bristles; anterior fracture of the stigma 
white; apical margin with a fuscous spot at the tip of each ner- 
vure. In fully colored individuals there is a fuscous cloud at the 
base of the corium covering the basal disk of the clavus; two equi- 
distant oblique fuscous spots on the costal area, the anterior of 
which may be continued behind in a large discal spot, and a rather 
vague smoky cloud across the base of the membrane, intensified on 
the stigma and base of the median apical areole. In pale examples 
the median fuscous band may be reduced to two spots on the costa, 
one on the disk, and a point at the apex of the clavus, and the pos- 
terior band to the two intensified spots. Commissural nervure al- 
ways whitish. 
Described from numerous examples beaten from a bush of 
Heteromeles (Christmas berry) at Alpine, San Diego Co., Calif., 
March 11th, 1914. These specimens may be slightly brachypter- 
ous which would account for their elytra being shorter than in 
Fowler’s figure, but the color of the body and legs is much darker, 
the elytra are more maculated and the form of the male genitalia 
is different. 
225. Myndus occidentalis n. sp. 
Allied to radicis Osb. but more deeply colored; luteus to ful- 
vous-yellow; front immaculate; elytral nervures dark. Length 4 
to 414 mm. 
Vertex long as in radicis but less narrowed anteriorly. Front 
proportionately narrower than in sordidipennis, the sides not so 
strongly angled as in radicis. Pronotum reduced to a mere line at 
center. Elytral nervures infuscated and distinctly punctate as in 
sordidipennis but the costal nervure not heavier and the stigma 
hyaline, its basal nervure only thickened and brown. Last ventral 
segment deeply excavated with a blunt tooth in the fundus, the 
sides parabolic; pygofers of the male long, exceeding the connex- 
ival segments by at least a third of their length, the apical margin 
pul slightly oblique; anal style black and considerably surpassing 
e tube. 
Color fulvous, a little paler on the head, pronotum and legs; 
front immaculate. Elytra and wings hyaline with the nervures dis- 
tinctly brown. Eyes, sides of the metanotum, an area on the ter- 
gum and the tarsal claws blackish. 
Described from four male and three female examples taken at 
Lakeside in May 1913. Some of the specimens are darker or almost 
testaceous brown and it is possible that they represent the fully 
adult coloration. 
