456 FAMILY XV. — TINGIDID^E. 



with two or three small indistinct transparent cells, apex hyaline. Hood 

 abruptly compressed at middle, hind portion globose with large cells, 

 front portion subtriangular with smaller ones. Median carina of pro- 

 notum elevated and with one row of cells, the two middle cells divided 

 by a small nervure. Elytra with costal margins 

 very slightly concave, their spinules very short. 

 Length, 3.5 mm. (Fig. 99). 



Southern two-thirds of Indiana, fre- 

 quent, April 25 — Sept. 23. Beaten from 

 Cratcegus. Probably occurs throughout the 

 State. Sherborn, Mass., Sept. 20 (Frost). 

 Ranges from Ontario and New England, 

 west to North Dakota and probably over 

 Fig. 99, x 9. most of the United States, though not re- 



( After co'mstock). corded south of Maryland. Occurs on vari- 

 ous species of Roseacese, as quince, choke-berry, Crater; /us, 

 Amelenchier, etc. The C. cratcegus 0. & D. is a synonym. 



408 (6497s). Corythuca associata Osborn & Drake, 1916a, 14. 



Subquadrate. Body black; antennse, beak and legs dull yellow; ner- 

 vures of hood brownish-yellow, the centers of the areolae, hyaline; para- 

 nota with one or two small brown spots, the cells hyaline; elytra with a 

 broad basal and apical cross-bar, the latter with two or three large 

 median cells and the outer halves of the apical row, hyaline; sutural 

 area and elevations in great part brownish. Paranota large, reniform, 

 reflexed, convex at middle. Hood strongly compressed near middle, 

 globose hind portion nearly spherical, about as wide as high. Median 

 carina arched and with two rows of cells. Spines on outer margins con- 

 spicuous. Length, 4 — 4.2 mm. 



Parke and Putnam counties, Ind., May 13 — Oct. 17. Yap- 

 hank, N. Y. ; Lahway, Palisades and Schooley Mts., N. J. ; 

 Jamison City, Pa. (Paris). Ranges from New York west to 

 southern Indiana and south to Georgia and Mississippi. Food 

 plants, wild cherry, peach and kindred trees and shrubs. The 

 C. spinulosa Gib. (1918, 79) is a synonym. 



409 ( — ). Corythuca elegans Drake, 1918, 89. 



Elongate, subquadrate. Body black; antenna? and legs yellow; ner- 

 vures of hood and paranota brown, in part fuscous, areolae creamy- 

 white, opaque; elytra with pale brown to fuscous basal and apical cross- 

 bars, the clear cells in latter subopaque, not hyaline. Hood higher than 

 the length of median carina, its crest more or less angulate and cells 

 twice the size of those of paranota. Median carina arched and with two 

 rows of cells. Spines along margins small, numerous, tipped with black. 

 Length, 3.5 mm. (Fig. 102, a). 



