. Brigham Young University science bulletin. Biology -- Periodicals. 280 lAiajricXLpsuv- 281 V-CLhjjJAs. Figs. 278-281. Male claspers. 278, Phytocoris gracil- latus; 279, P. fhvellus; 280, P. tricinctipes; 281, P. varius Kngt. do not exceed diameter of segment; II, mm, brownish black, a white annulus at base, apex nearly black; III, mm, black, narrowly pale at base; IV, mm, black. Pronotum, length mm, width at base mm; fuscous to black, calli pale but marked with black lines, disk with basal edge white, sub-basal margin black, propleura black, lower margin white. Mesos
. Brigham Young University science bulletin. Biology -- Periodicals. 280 lAiajricXLpsuv- 281 V-CLhjjJAs. Figs. 278-281. Male claspers. 278, Phytocoris gracil- latus; 279, P. fhvellus; 280, P. tricinctipes; 281, P. varius Kngt. do not exceed diameter of segment; II, mm, brownish black, a white annulus at base, apex nearly black; III, mm, black, narrowly pale at base; IV, mm, black. Pronotum, length mm, width at base mm; fuscous to black, calli pale but marked with black lines, disk with basal edge white, sub-basal margin black, propleura black, lower margin white. Mesoscutum moderately exposed, pale yellow- ish, central area and lateral edges blackish. Scutellum blackish, basal angles, apex and nar- row median line pallid. Dorsal surface clothed with suberect, simple black hairs, intermixed with recumbent, in part appressed, silvery sericeous pubescence. Hemel- ytra pallid, broadly shaded and marked with black, the dark areas more or less irrorate with pale spots; outer half of clavus, inner half of corium, a wide spot at middle and oblique patch joining inner apical angle, blackish but edges cut by irrorate pale spots; embolium with fuscous marks, the apex black; cuneus and para- cuneus black, outer basal angle of cuneus white. Membrane opaque white, heavily shaded with fuscous and black, reticulate, conspurcate and vermiculate patterns formed by the dark color, with several medium sized clear areas not in- vaded by markings, largest clear spot by apex of cuneus; cubital vein pale, vein between areoles blackish, ostiolar peritreme white, blackish on area above. Coxae pallid except for spot on base; femora with strong reticulate pattern of brown- ish black, paler near base; tibiae with three blackish bands that are broken by pale spots, posterior tibiae more thickly irrorate with pale or white; tarsi fuscous, paler on middle. Venter pallid, with two lateral lines formed by series of spots on segments. Male. Length mm, width mm. Head:
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