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folium) and when reared were found to be this species. This 

 would indicate that the species has a wide range of food plants. 

 The species was also taken in considerable numbers on Soli- 

 dago rugosa in company w : th media where both forms were 

 evidently breeding. 



The species is named in honor of Mr. O. Heidemann, who 

 was the first to recognize this form as an undescribed species. 

 It is to be regretted that he never found time to publish on 

 this and other forms that he knew. 



Holotype:$, June 20, 1916, Batavia, New York (H. H. 

 Knight) ; author's collection. 



Allotype: topotypic. 



Paratypcs: 34 5$ topotypic. 1665 9 July 4-5, Four Mile; 

 3$ 29 June 27, Honeoye Falls; 9 June 27, Portage; 9 July 16, 

 Conesus Lake; 9 June, 1911, Ithaca, all in New York and all collected 

 by the writer. 2$ 2? June I, South Meriden, (Connecticut, (H. 

 Johnson). 9 June 24, Bennington, \^erinpnt^ (C. W. Johnson). 

 9 June 4, Westfield, New Jersey, (Wm. T. Davis). 2 $ 9 June 4, 

 Washington, and 9 June 12, Brightwood, District of Columbia; 9 

 Hensen Creek and $ May 24, Glen Echo, Maryland (O. Heidemann); 

 also several other specimens in the Heidemann collection from the 

 vicinity of Washington, D. C. 29 June, Black Mts., North Carolina 

 (Beutimmtiller). 9 May 18, 9 May 24, $ 9 June 8, $ 

 29 June 17, Plummers Island, Maryland; $ May 19, Great Falls, and 

 $ June 6, Mount Vernon, Virginia (W. L. McAtee). ^ June 10, , 

 Tazewell, Virginia: $ Branchville to Beltsville, Maryland, (L. O. 

 Jackson). 2$ May 22, 23, Four Alile Run, Virginia; 9 June 8, 

 Conduit and Potomac Roads, Maryland, (A. Wetmore). $ May 31, 

 Falls Church, and $ June 7, Groat Falls, Virginia, (Nathan Banks). 

 2 $ , Cleveland, Ohio. 



Lopidea salicis new species. (Fig. 2.) 



Closely related to cnncata but differs in the form of the 

 male genital claspers and in having more orange color on the 

 pronotum and sides of the hemelytra. 



$. Length, 5.7 mm.; width, 1.94 mm. Black, sides of the pronotum 

 and basal angles of the disk orange colored; embolium and half of the 

 cuneus yellowish to orange; species distinguished by the form of the 

 male genital claspers (fig. 2). 



9 . Very similar to the male in size and coloration, sometimes 

 slightly more robust. 



