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GENUS CROPIIIUS 



Described from one female taken on the Santa Rita Mts. , 

 Arizona, by Mr. H. S. Barber and sent me for study by Mr. 

 Heidemann and one pair taken at the same locality by Mr. E. A. 

 Schwarz and received from the National Museum. This is a 

 very distinct little species differing from our other known forms 

 by the slender antennae with short basal joint, the finely and 

 obscurely punctured el}-tra, and in having the clavus and corium 

 immaculate, whitish. 



4. Crophius Bohemani Stal. 



Fregatta Eugenies Resa, Hemiptera, p. 251, 1859, (Cymus). 



Larger and broader posteriorly 

 than in the allied species. Antennae 

 stout; basal joint a little surpassing 

 the tylus; apical rather longer than 

 the second, about twice the length of 

 the third. Rostrum attaining the base 

 of the metasternum. Bucculae ending 

 abruptly some distance from the base 

 of the head. Pronotum longer than 

 in the typical disconotus ; very feebly 

 constricted ; the callousities but slight- 

 ly elevated. Elytra ample, almost 

 flat, coarsely punctured, the clavus 

 with a few irregular punctures be 



tween the submarginal rows, scarcely forming a third row. 

 Length 4 mm. 



Color: Head, a pronotal band across the callousities, scu- 

 tellum, and the meso- and metasternum and pleurae black. 

 Anterior margin of the prothorax whitish, posterior lobe of the 

 pronotum piceous brown, becoming paler behind on the median 

 line. Elytra soiled white, slightly infuscated across the middle 

 of the corium, accentuated on the nervures there; membrane 

 paler on the base and around the apical border, the nervures 

 darker, Legs piceous brown; coxae, knees, tibiae and tarsi, 

 except at apex, pale yellowish; tibiae broadly annulate with pale. 

 Venter piceous brown, polished. Antennae dark brown, apex of 

 the first joint and the second except at tip, pale fulvous, the first 

 sometimes almost entirely ferruginous. 



