144 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



The scales were in abundance on all except the wafer-ash {Ptelea 

 trifoliata), being thickly crowded between and under the rough 

 bark. On the wafer-ash, however, I found only a few isolated 

 scales, and these were located near the extremities of the twigs, 

 the Ptelea being only a shrub a few feet tall. I have found no 

 references to this scale attacking either Ptelea or Juglans, and so 

 I offer these two as new host plants of A . ulmi. The scales winter 

 over as nearly full-grown adults. A. H. Hollinger, 



University of Missouri, Columbia, Mo. 



AN APPARENTLY NEW SPECIES OF PHALONIA. 



BY WM. BARNES, M.D., AND J. MCDUNNOUGH, PH.D., DECATUR, ILL 



Among some material sent us for determination by the Bureau 

 of Cereal and Forage Insect Investigation were specimens of a 

 Phalonid bred by Mr. C. N. Ainslie at Elk Point, S. Dakota from 

 Spartinana michauxiana in the stems of which the larva? were boring, 

 apparently along with those of Torlrix clemensiana Fern, since a 

 specimen of this species was included under the same breeding 

 number. As we can find no name applicable to this species, we 

 describe it as new as follows: — 



Phalonia spartinana, n. sp. 



cf. — Head, thorax, and primaries pale ochreous, the latter 

 shiny and immaculate with the exception of a minute dark dot at 

 the end of the cell at the origin of vein 5 and another below the 

 origin of vein 2; the costal margin at the basal half is dark brown; 

 secondaries pale smoky, with whitish fringes. Beneath primaries 

 deep smoky, with the exception of the pale costal margin and 

 fringes; secondaries much as above. Expanse 20 mm. 



9 — Similar to the & but larger and without the dark costal 

 margin and dot below vein 2; secondaries without the smoky 

 shade. Beneath the primaries are less smoky and more ochreous 

 than in the cf . Expanse 25 mm. 



Types: 2 cf's, 19. Elk Point, S. Dakota (C. N. Ainslie). 

 Coll. Barnes. 



Related to Phal. atomosana Busck, but smaller, paler and 

 lacking the sprinkling of brownish atoms characteristic of this 

 species. 



Mailed April 10th, 1916. 



