2IO ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. f June. 'iS 



Old and New Species of Lopidea from the United 



States (Hemip., Miridae).* 

 By HARRY H. KNIGHT, Ithaca, New York. 



(Plate XIII.) 



Lopidea media (Say). Heterop. Hemip. N. Amer., p. 22, 1831. 

 (Plate XIII, fig. 1.). 



The various workers on Hemiptera have generally agreed 

 on the species that represents Say's Media, type of the genus 

 Lopidea, there being only one form east of the Mississippi 

 that will fit the original description. Farther west, however, 

 beginning with Colorado, and Texas to the southwest, media 

 overlaps with two species, lepidii and intermedia, forms which 

 could never be distinguished with certainty except by the gen- 

 ital characters. The writer has figured the male genital clasp- 

 ers (PI. XIII, fig. i) of a specimen from Missouri which is 

 the same as the generally accepted media Say. Males of .this 

 species have been examined coming from several States, rang- 

 ing from Maine to Colorado with two specimens from farther 

 west. 



The writer found media breeding on Solidacjo ritgosa at 

 Four Mile, New York, in company with Ilnacora malina 

 Uhler, but judging from the distribution of the species, he is 

 of the opinion that it breeds on other plants also. 



Records: $9, Aug. 16, Ashland Junction, MAINE, 59, July 3, 

 Hanover, NEW HAMPSHIRE (C. W. Johnson). $ 9, July 13, Swamn- 

 scott, MASSACHUSETTS (H. M. Parshley). 59, July 4, Four MiU\ 

 59, July 12, Batavia (H. H. Knight); 59, July 3, White Plains 

 (Torre Bueno) ; 59, July, Staten Island (Wm. T. Davis), XE\V 

 YORK). 5, July 2, Jamesburg, NEW JERSEY, (W. T. Davis). 5. 

 June 17, Brightwood, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA; 9, Aug. 7, 1907, 

 Hyattsville, MARYLAND (O. Heidemann). 59, May 30 to June 23, 

 Plummer's Island, 59. June 4-15, Beltsvill", MARYLAND; 59, June 

 6, Mount Vernon, 59, June 23, Glen Carlyn, VIRGINIA (W. L. Mr- 

 Atee). 5, Ames, IOWA. 59, Julv 15, Springfield, Mis.sm'M 

 (H. H. Knight). 5, Aug. 15, Bozeman. MONTANA. 5 9, June 

 26, July 17, Fort Collins, COLORADO. 5, July 3, 1891, Ogden, UTAH. 



Lopidea intermedia new species. (PI. XIII, fig. 11). 



Similar in coloration to media and lepidii, to which species 



* Contribution from the Department of Entomology of Cornell Uni- 

 versity. 



