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males and are in the collection of the Illinois State Laboratory 

 of Natural History under No. 45690, one mounted on card point, 

 the other, with the cast larval and pupal skins, on a slide in Can- 

 ada balsam. The larval skin of the dry-mounted specimen was 

 not found, but the pupal skin is mounted on a separate slide under 

 the above number. 



A NEW SPECIES OF NORTH AMERICAN TINGITID^E. 



BY OTTO HEIDEMANN, Bureau of Entomology. 



Gargaphia solani new species 



Body rather flat, dark brown; the angulated, yellow rim of the rostral 

 groove very distinct at base of metasternum. Head dark, deeply punc- 

 tured; at the frontal part three small, slender spines, the upper one more 

 prominent, two others near to the eyes a little longer. Antennas quite 

 long, hairy; basal joint comparatively thick, black and somewhat longer 

 than the terminal joint, which is fusciform and black at the apex; second 

 joint the shortest, testaceous; third more than four times as long as the 

 fourth joint, yellowish-white; bucculae moderately expanded, yellowish, 

 with one row of minute areoles. 



Fig. 1. 



Pronotum feebly convex, black, with three low ; yellowish carime, the 

 median one a little higher before the middle, tapering toward the pale 

 apex of the triangular, posterior portion of pronotum; the lateral mem- 

 branous part of the pronotum angularly expanded, with two to five series 

 of irregular areoles, the edge somewhat broadly reflexed, some of the 

 nervures exteriorly blackish. Head, pronotum and the edge of the membra- 



