REPORT OF THE STATE ENTOMOLOGIST 1904 519 



Platymetopius fulvus n. sp. 



Black, fulvous with scattered white spots on elytra. Length 

 of female 5 mm, male 4.5 mm. 



Vertex acute but not very long about i^ times as long as width 

 between eyes and about equal to pronotum. Frontal sutures 

 sinuous, clypeus about if times as long as wide. Pronotum 

 slightly concave on hind border; scutellum with broad m.edian 

 impression. 



Color. Vertex, pronotum, angles of scutellum and elytra bright 

 fulvous with divergent lines on vertex. Five parallel lines on 

 pronotum and numerous dots on elytra whitish. Central portion 

 of scutellum yellow; costal cells hyaline or faintly whitish, beneath 

 lighter, yellowish or pallid. 



Genitalia. Last ventral segment of female elongate, posterior 

 border rounded with small black spots close to hind border. Py- 

 gofer extending almost to tip of ovipositor, brown. Male valve 

 triangular, hind border with distinct sharp angle. 



Described from a number of specimens, 10 females and six males 



beaten from pine and huckleberry. Oyster Bay, Aug. 18, 1904. 



As all are adults it is impossible to determine the food plant with 



certainty though it seems likely that it is the huckleberry and that 



the individuals taken from pines were resting accidentally on the 



trees. 



Deltocephalus sayi (Fitch) 



Amblycephalus sayi Fitch. Homop. N. Y. State Cab. 1851. 



p. 61; reprinted in Lintner. 9th Rep't. 1893. p. 401 

 Jassus sayi Walker. Homop. 1852. 4:1158 

 Deltocephalus sayi Uhler. U. S. Geol. & Geog. Sisir. Bui. 4. 1878. 



p. Sii; Southwick, Science. 1892. 19:288; Van Duzee, in Lintner. 



9th Rep't. 1893. p. 410 

 Deltocephalus sayi Fitch. Van Duzee, Buf . Soc. Nat. Hist. Bui. 



4, p. 198 



Reported for Buffalo, Poughkeepsie, Otto, Kamer, Lake Placid, 

 Phoenicia and Kingston. I collected it in numbers at Hamburg, 

 Eagle Bridge, Salem, Cold Spring Harbor, Jamaica and Staten 

 Island. 



Fitch's types are in fair preservation and represent the small 

 and rather dark form of the species. 



Deltocephalus sylvestris O, & B. 



Deltocephalus sylvestris Osborn & Ball. , la. Acad. Sci. Proc. 

 4:213 



Collected at Lake Placid by Mr Van Duzee. 



