TRIBE I. — GALEATINI. 



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ones much the larger ; pronotum with a small bilobed preapical 

 hood, enlarged behind into a large discal globose one, the latter 

 as in key ; elytra widely flattened, surpassing abdomen by near- 

 ly half their length ; costal area with a single row of very large 



quadrangular areolae; osteola absent. 

 One of the two known North Amer- 

 ican species occurs in the eastern 

 states. 



404 (651). Galeatus peckhami (Ash- 

 mead), 1887, 156. 

 Elongate-oblong. Head and body 

 black ; nervures of pronotum and elytra 

 brown or fuscous; areolae mostly trans- 

 parent or vitreous, those of the discal 

 hood, lateral carina? and sutural area 

 clouded ; antenna? and legs yellowish, 

 tarsi and fourth antennal darker. First 

 joint of antennae twice the length of sec- 

 ond, third longer than the others united. 

 Elytral margins abruptly narrowed and 

 sinuate near base, broadly rounded at 

 apex. Length, 4 — 4.5 mm. (Fig. 98). 



Fig. 9S, X 10. (After Drake, 

 Tech. Pub. No. 16, N. Y. St. Coll. 

 For.). 



Cranberry Lake, N. Y., Aug. 5 

 (Drake). A species of northern dis- 

 tribution, ranging from Ontario and northern New England 

 west to Wisconsin (type locality) and Manitoba. Recorded 

 also from Las Vegas, N. M., ,+ and Japan by Uhler (1904, 354; 

 1896, 265) . Host plants aster and boneset. 



II. Corythuca Stal, 1873, 119. 



Small oblong or subquadrate species having the pronotal hood 

 more or less globose, its apical extension entirely covering the 

 head, reaching in front of tylus ; sternal groove not interrupted 

 by a cross carina ; bucculse united in front ; antennae slender, be- 

 set with fine bristly hairs, joint 1 twice or more the length of 2, 

 3 longer than 1 and 2 united, 4 shorter and stouter than 3; 

 pronotum tricarinate, its paranota broad, more or less reflexed, 

 the edges of their side margins with spines ; elytra subquad- 

 rate, narrowed at base, the costal margin of basal half re- 

 flexed, furnished with spines; disk with a tumid elevation on 

 basal third ; nervures of upper surface often bearing a few 

 scattered erect spines ; osteolar opening present. 



54 Since described by Horvath (1923) as a new species. 



