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Van Duzee (1914, p. 11, and 1917c, p. 261) states that 

 nigrina is "a common species everywhere in Cahfornia" and 

 has taken it in vSan Diego County feeding upon Rhus laurina 

 and a leguminose plant allied to alfalfa. Specimens are at hand 

 that bear the food plant labels as follows : Sugar beets (Spreck- 

 les, California, Sept. 20, 1904, collected by E. S. G. Titus) ; 

 Adenostegia iCordylanthiis) filafoUa (Campa, California, July 

 29, 1917, by W. D. Pierce); Adenostegia pilosa (Permanente 

 Cr., Santa Clara County, California, August 12, 1917, by 

 G. F. Ferris, who states "It occurs in great numbers on both the 

 leaves and flowers of its host plants"); Sphaeralcea aiigustifolia 

 (Rio Grande, Brewster County, Texas, by Mitchell and Cush- 

 man); Verbena (Marion County, Arkansas, July 15, by Mr. 

 McElfresh, also Riley County, Kansas, September and October, 

 by Mr. J. B. Norton); Ilelenium tennifolium (Wolf Creek| 

 Texas, August 5, 1906, by Dr. F. C. Bishop). 



I have seen specimens of nigrina Champion labeled " Teleo- 

 nemia elongata Uhler MS.," and this is probably the species 

 listed by Uhler (1886, p. 22) and Smith (1909, p. 149) and 

 Van Duzee (1917b, p. 222). The antenna? are slightly variable 

 in length, but the third segment is always less than twice the 

 length of the fourth. Van Duzee (1917c, p. 261) states, "Some 

 of the females taken in company with the typical form have 

 mere tubercles on the last ventral segment in place of the 

 prominent horn-hke processes figured by Champion." The 

 tubercles of genital segment vary in size in the same specimen 

 and sometimes they are entirely wanting. 



Teleonemia schwarzi sp. new. 



Moderately elongate, rather small; elytra testaceous, the ner\-ures 

 vanegated with brownish fuscous. Head black, armed with short slender 

 spines, the two frontal spines converging and the median spine very 

 short or almost entirely wanting. Eyes black. Pronotum coarsely 

 punctate, black or reddish black, the pubescence whitish, the surface 

 of the disc shining; tricarinate, each carina very low and thin, the 

 niedian carina with barely distinct areolae, the lateral caiina? slightly 

 diverging anteriorly and without distinct areolae; paranota almost 

 wantmg, barely carinate. In some specimens the pubescence on 

 the pronotum seems to be almost entirely rubbed off and disc is 

 shming and appears much like the dorsal surface of the bodv in the 

 genus Alveolingis O. & D. Rostral groove much widened" on the 

 metastemum, the rostrum extending to the meso- metastemal suture. 

 Body beneath black or reddish black, the. pubescence rather sparse and 



