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A NEW SPECIES OF NORTH AMERICAN TINGITID^. 



BY O. HEIDEMANN. 



Leptostyla clitoriae, new species. 



Body black, rather short, ovate, moderately elongate; fresh speci- 

 mens somewhat pruinose on the underside; head black, in front two 

 small, white spines converging, behind them a little black spur bent 

 forward; at base of head between the eyes two other short white 

 spines; buccula? a little distended, yellowish, the edge somewhat up- 

 turned, uniseriate; rostrum yellow, reaching to the middle of meso- 

 sternum; metasternum transverse, flat; antenna? slender, the two basal 

 joints dark yellowish, both together about as long as the fourth, 

 which is black toward apex; the third joint yellowish-white, nearly 

 three times as long as the terminal. 



Thorax black, finely punctured; anterior margin and the hood whit- 

 ish, the latter small, short, and oval, a little depressed near the tip 

 with a sharp, black keel at top; lateral membranous margins narrow; 

 white, with two rows of small cells, at base a few nervures black; the 

 triangular portion of pronotum toward apex yellowish, reticulate; the 

 three carinse very feebly raised, whitish, uniseriate, continuing over 

 the whole thorax. 



Elytra ovate, somewhat elongate, considerably 

 longer than the abdomen, feebly rounded near 

 the base, moderately sinuate just behind the 

 middle and rounded at apex; discoidal area and 

 subcostal dark yellowish, or blackish with the 

 nervures black, closely reticulated; the basal 

 and median part of costal margins translucent, 

 entirely white, with two rows of some large 

 cells; a broad black band across the costal mar- 

 gins before the middle; the elytra toward the 

 apex and the sutural area infuscated, except F IG - ^- t 

 three or four very large areoles, which are trans- 

 lucent and whitish; nervures black. Legs yellowish-white, nails 

 infuscated. 

 Length, 2.2 mm.; width across the widest part of the elytra, 0.8 mm. 



Described from several specimens, males and females. Rock 

 Creek, D. C., June 26, 1897 (Heidemann); Washington, D. 

 C., August 9, 1910; Plummer's Island, Maryland, October 14, 

 1906 (E. A. Schwarz); Plummer's Island, Maryland, July 4, 

 1908; Rock Creek, D. C., September, 1901 (Heidemann). 

 Columbus, Texas, March 8 (Collection Riley). 



Type: No. 14241, U. S. National Museum Collection. 



