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FAMILY XV. — TINGIDID.E. 



an interrupted band at base and near apex and spots on discal elevations 

 of elytra, fuscous-brown. Hood scarcely twice as high as and longer 

 than median pronotal carina, its front portion compressed with sides 

 concave. Paranota broadly rounded, margins minutely ciliate, cells 

 smaller than those of hood. Median carina of pronotum feebly arched 

 in front, slightly sinuate behind, and with a large cell in front and two 

 at middle; lateral carina? short and low. Costal margin wholly devoid 

 of spines or cilia?; cells of costal and subcostal areas larger than those 

 of hood. Length, 3.5 mm. (Fig. 102, c). 





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Fig. 102. a, Corythuca elegans Drake; 

 lateral views of hood and median carina, respectively, of same 

 Pub. No. 16, N. Y. St. Coll. For.). 



C. molilalia O. & D. X 16 ; 6 and d, 

 (After Drake, Tech. 



Ramsey, N. J., May 21 (Barber). Described from Michigan; 

 ranges from New England west to Montana and Vernon, B. C, 

 and southwest in the coastwise states to South Carolina and 

 Florida. Breeds on willow and poplar, hibernating beneath 

 leaves and rubbish on the ground. The C. saHcis 0. & D. (1917, 

 298) and the C. canadensis Parsh. (1919, 18) are synonyms. 



418 (645). Corythuca marmorata (Uhler), 1878, 415. 



Oblong. Body black, the sides of sterna brownish; antenna? and 

 legs yellow, tarsi darker; nervures of upper surface typically brown or 

 fuscous, the cells milky-white; elytra usually with small fuscous or 

 brown spots, arranged in four transverse rows, those of the two apical 

 rows usually connected to form two narrow cross-bars separated by a 



