. Brigham Young University science bulletin. Biology -- Periodicals. 301. Figs. 297-301. Male claspers. 297, Phytocoris flaviatus; 298, P. minuendus; 299, P. relations; 300, P. lati- ceps; 301, P. albiscutellutus. cuneus. Thorax beneath fuscous brown, ostiolar peritreme pallid. Coxae and basal half of fe- mora pallid, apical half or femora marked by reticulate pattern of brownish black; front tibiae with three fuscous annuli, middle tibiae with bands reduced and broken by pale irrorations; tarsi pale, fuscous on base and apex. Venter pal- lid, sides with spots and marks of reddish brown. Holot
. Brigham Young University science bulletin. Biology -- Periodicals. 301. Figs. 297-301. Male claspers. 297, Phytocoris flaviatus; 298, P. minuendus; 299, P. relations; 300, P. lati- ceps; 301, P. albiscutellutus. cuneus. Thorax beneath fuscous brown, ostiolar peritreme pallid. Coxae and basal half of fe- mora pallid, apical half or femora marked by reticulate pattern of brownish black; front tibiae with three fuscous annuli, middle tibiae with bands reduced and broken by pale irrorations; tarsi pale, fuscous on base and apex. Venter pal- lid, sides with spots and marks of reddish brown. Holotype: 9 May 24, 1924, Tucson, Arizona (A. A. Nichol). Plti/tocoris albiscutellatus, new species Fig. 301 Runs in the key to the couplet with laticeps, from which it may be separated by the narrow vertex; genital segment and claspers (Fig. 301) distinctive of the species. Male. Length mm, width mm. Head: width mm, vertex .30 mm; vertex not equal to dorsal width of an eye; pallid, frons with transverse striae each side of median line, ver- tex with median line white; clypeus with dark brown across middle and at base. Rostrum, length mm, reaching to near base of genital segment, brownish yellow, apex dark brown. Antennae: segment I, length mm, pallid beneath, brown at base, dorsal aspect dark brown, with three or four glabrous white spots, apex brownish black, with several erect pallid spines which in length exceed diameter of seg- ment; II, mm, dark yellowish brown, with white annulus at base, also a yellowish annulus at middle but edges not sharply cut; III, mm, fuscous brown, pale at base, also a paler yellowish band just beyond middle; IV, mm, fuscous. Pronotum, length .95 mm, width at base mm; pale yellowish to dusky and shaded with fuscous, basal edge of disk white, sub-basal margin with sinuate band of fuscous which includes three tumid points each side of middle, each point with a tuft of deciduous, scalelike brownish black hairs unt
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