296 NEARCTIC ERYTHRONEURA (hOMOPTERA) 



Other specimens seen were from the same locaUty as the mea- 

 sured specimens, March 14, 1915, (W. L. M.); Piney Branch, 

 District of Columbia Sept. 12, 1914, (W. L. M.); Iowa City, 

 Iowa, (L. L. Buchanan), [W. L. M.]; Forest Glen, Maryland, 

 July 24, 1916, Aug, 10, (Otto Heidcmann); two specimens with- 

 out data, [U. S. N. M.]. 



Erythroneura basilaris var. dulcis new variety 



Tegininal band pinkish, tegminal spots yellow, markings on scntellum 

 and anterior parts translucent to livid. 



Length, 2.64 mm.; vertex: LM 6, LE .3, WA 11, WP 18, OA 5.5, OP 10, 

 OH 14.5; pronotum: L 9.5, W 19; tegmen 13-55. 



Type— 9 ; Plummer's Island, Maryland, March 18, 1917, (W. 

 L. McAtee), [W. L. M.]. 



Erythroneura basilaris var. afflnis Fitch 



E. [rythroneura] ajjiids. Fitch, Asa. Cat. State Cabinet, N. Y., 1851, p. 63. 



Lintner, Reprint, 1893, p. 403. [New York.] 



Tegminal band yellowish brown, other color markings yellow, those on 

 anterior part of pronotum and on vertex sometimes obsolete. 



Length, 2.77 mm.; vertex: LM 7, LE 3.5, WA 12.5, WP 20, OA 6, OP 10, 

 OH 20; pronotum: L 10, W 20; tegmen 13-57. Measurements from a 

 female, one of three specimens, from Manhattan, Kansas, April 26, 1877, on 

 wild gooseberry, A. N. Godfrey, [U. S. N. M.]. 



Erythroneura maculata Gillette 



Typhlocyhii. cnin.cs var. inacaldtn. Gillette, C. P. Am Tyi>hlocybinae, 1898, 



p. 764. [Type No. 3448, U. S. N. M., which was collected at Onaga, 



Kansas.]. 



This species, which in numerous specimens may agree almost 

 exactly in color with examples of E. comes Say, is distinguished 

 by the greater obhquity of the fourth cross-vein (fig. 11) and lack 

 of a black dot or cloud in apex of second apical cell. Occasional 

 puzzling individuals may be found, but in general the distinction 

 is cleai' and the species (>asily recognized. The known range ex- 

 tends fi-om Mai-yland and Wisconsin to Virginia, Georgia, Texas 

 and Kansas. 



Sjjecimens of tiKindafa occur with the color markings palei' 

 anteriorly, with part of the markings yellow and part red, and 

 sometimes even with one tegmcMi red-marked, the other yellow. 

 It has not, thei'ef(jr(>, schmucmI advisable to recognize such variants 

 by name. A form in this categoiy, however, has been named, 



