26 TRANS. S. D. SocieTY NATURAL HISTORY 
and antennze mostly, pronotum laterally, and the scutellum black ; 
closed elytra with a pendulum-like fuscous mark touching the base 
of the membrane. Length to tip of the elytra 3 mm. 
Head viewed from above transversely oval; vertex convex, 
almost vertical before; clypeus triangularly produced; surface pol- 
ished, impunctate, behind the eyes abruptly narrowed, leaving the 
eyes distinct from the pronotum. First joint of the antenne near- 
ly as long as the width of the head across the eyes; second linear, 
two and a half times the length of the first and a little more slen- 
der; third and fourth together a little longer than the second, much 
thinner. Rostrum attaining the intermediate coxe. Pronotum 
trapezoidal, its sides straight, the base nearly so; collum wanting ; 
callosities distinct; surface smooth, impunctate. Basal lobe of the 
scutellum well exposed. Elytra long and _ parallel, subhyaline. 
Legs long and slender; tibize smooth. Basal joint of tarsi appar- 
ently shorter than the second. Areole of the wing without a ha- 
mus. I am unable to detect the arolia. 
Color pale yellowish-white, often strongly tinged with bluish- 
green on the elytra. Head black, the base behind the eyes ochra- 
ceous and the gula fuscous. Antenne black, the base of the first 
joint pale. Disk of the pronotum broadly pale or ochraceous, the 
sides usually broadly, sometimes narrowly, black. Scutellum 
black; its basal lobe, or at least at either side, fulvous. Elytra 
whitish subhyaline, more or less tinged with bluish-green; narrow 
scutellar and commissural margins of the clavus blackish, connect- 
ing with a transverse oval fuscous spot on the inner angle of the 
corium. Membrane hyaline, iridescent, with a very faint smoky 
discal cloud, the nervures brownish. Beneath pale, or with the 
pleural pieces and margins and the apex of the abdomen black. 
Legs pale, the femora, knees and tibize sometimes a little darker 
above. Rostrum pale. 
Described from numerous examples taken at Leona Heights 
and Palo Alto, Calif., in August, by Dr. J. C. Bradley and two paler 
examples taken by me at San Juan Capistrano, June 25th, 1914. I 
have not yet detected this species in San Diego County but it doubt- 
less will be taken along our river valleys. In this description I 
have included many generic characters as the genus seems not to 
have been known to Dr. Reuter. The present species is close to 
fasciata Dist., but undoubtedly distinct. Paraproba differs from 
Dicyphus chiefly in the form of the pronotum and may have to be 
merged with it after a more careful study. 
156. Coquillettia insignis Uhler. San Diego, taken on chaparral 
in June. 
157. Closterocoris amoenus Prov. This pretty insect is one of 
our most abundant Capsids. It occurs throughout the year 
on various plants and bushes and is subject to some varia- 
tion in the depth of its coloring. 
158. Cyphopelta modesta Van D. One example of this pretty in- 
sect was taken by Mr. W. S. Wright at San Diego, May 21st 
1913. The unique type was taken by Mr. Fordyce Grinnell 
at Pasadena in June. 
