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below tliis the cheeks deeply excavated and coarsely punctured with 

 fuscous ; the lower cheeks yellow, smooth inferiorly ; above this with 

 remote, deeply-sunken, coarse, rufous punctures ; antennae yellow ; the 

 apex of basal joint on the upj)er side with a fuscous ring ; the second 

 and third joints with a fuscous longitudinal line both above and below ; 

 the basal joint stouter, subequal to the second ; the third a little shorter ; 

 fourth and fifth lost from the specimens. Bucculte punctured with fus- 

 cous ; rostrum yellow ; labrum with a black streak ; the third and fourth 

 joints tinged with piceous ; the apex of the latter almost black. Prono- 

 tum dull testaceous, ochreous anteriorly, rather remotely, minutely 

 punctured with fuscous ; the anterior slope steeply convex 5 the lateral 

 margins convexly arcuated ; humeral angles bluntlj^ rounded ; the pos- 

 terior angles still more so ; the disk with about four series of transverse, 

 interrupted black lines ', the anterior margin indented each side. Pec- 

 tus testaceous, remotely punctured with rufous, punctured anteriorly 

 more minutely in patches with fuscous, and more coarsely posteriorly j 

 the outer extremity of the duct fuscous, and with a large deep puncture 

 there. Legs short, stout, yellow ; the femora and tibiee dotted with fus- 

 cous, the dots coalescing on the middle of the posterior and interme- 

 diate femora, so as to form a ring; tarsi at tip tinged with piceous. 

 Scutellum rather suddenly convexed at base; lateral margins parallel, 

 obliquely narrowed toAvard the tip ; the tip truncated, with the angles 

 rounded, ochreous; base of the convexity having a large, pale-yellow 

 crescent with the points directed backward, and slenderly and faintly 

 continued backward to behind the middle of the lateral margins ; ante- 

 rior to this continuation each side is a large fuscous cloud, which is 

 invaded on the outside posteriorly by a pale angular spot, and at base 

 exteriorly by a darker i^atch, which runs back to the angular spot ; at 

 base each side of the lunule are several short, transverse black lines, 

 and more exteriorly some black points ; posterior surface reticulated with 

 black ; at the apex a transverse, oval, yellow spot, with a black dot on 

 the middle posteriorly ; the anterior edge of the spot bounded with 

 black, and with a slender black line running forward from it. Yenter 

 pale, dull testaceous, punctured remotely with red, and with denser 

 fuscous punctures in a broad band each side, upon which is a series of 

 five spots composed of denser black punctures ; the stigmatal orifices 

 placed on small tubercles ; connexivum with spots of crowded fuscous 

 punctures near the apex of the segments ; the postero-lateral angles 

 slightly produced ; last ventral segment elevated and produced in a 

 truncated plate over the base of the first genital segment. 2 . 



Length, 9 millimeters. Width of pronotum, 5^ millimeters. 



Inhabits the vicinity of San Francisco in May (Henry Edwards). 



Pachycoeis, Bnrm. 

 P. Fahricii. 



Cimex Fahricii, Linu., Mantis. Ins. 534. 



Fachycoris Fahricii, H. Schf., Wauz. los. iv, 6, fig. 349. 



Paclujcoris Stalii, Ubler, Proc. Eutom. Soc. Phila. ii, 1.59. 



Inhabits California. Mexico, &c. It will no doubt hereafter be collected 

 in Arizona and New Mexico. 



Sphyrocoris, Mayr. 

 S. ohUquiis. 



Paclujcoris ohliquiis, Germar, Zeits. i, 94, No. 24. 

 Sphyrocoris ohliquus, Mayr, Novara Keise, Hem. 26. 



Inhabits Arizona ; but has been previously known only frotq the West 

 Indies and Mexico. 



