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FAMILY XV. — TINGIDID^E. 



Lakehurst and Newfoundland, N. J. ; Fairfax Co., Va. ; Belts- 

 ville, Md., and Bloomsburg, Pa., June 15 — Sept. 3 (Davis). 



South Orange and Springfield, 

 N. J., July 23— Sept. 9 (Weiss). 

 An introduced European spe- 

 cies, ranging in this country 

 from New England west to 

 Ohio, and south to North Caro- 

 lina. Van Duzee records it also 

 from "Fla.," but it is not in- 

 cluded in the Barber list, and 

 his record probably should be 

 referred to blatchleyi. Occurs on 

 laurels, K-almia, and rhododen- 

 drons, often doing much dam- 

 age. The L. explanata Heid. 

 (1908, 105) is a synonym. 



Fig. 105, X IS 



(After Heidemann). 



431 ( — ). Leptobyrsa blatchleyi (Drake), 1925, 37. 



Oval, dilated behind. Body brown; antennae and legs dull yellow, 

 fourth antennal and tarsi fuscous; nervures of upper surface mostly 

 straw-yellow, the cells clear hyaline; carina along crest of hood, curved 

 line on median carina and three cross nervures of elytra, piceous-brown; 

 front half of pronotum reddish-brown, posterior half and discoidal area 

 and elevations of elytra creamy-white. Hood small, compressed trian- 

 gular, its sides with two rows of cells. Paranota small, reflexed, round- 

 ed both in front and behind. Median carina almost as long and high 

 as hood and with two rows of cells, arched near base, thence evenly 

 declivent to the obtuse apex. Elytra strongly narrowed at base, thence 

 gradually widely expanded backward ; costal area with two rows of cells 

 at base and five at widest part; discal elevations high and narrow. 

 Crest of hood, margins of paranota and elytra fringed with very fine 

 hairs; upper surface of pronotum and elytra with similar erect hairs. 

 Other characters as under generic heading. Length, 2.8 — 3.2 mm. 



Dunedin, Fla., Feb. 14 — April 17. Beaten from bunches of 

 Spanish moss, swept from foliage along the bay front and the 

 margin of a dense hammock, and sifted from bases of clumps 

 of grass. In one specimen almost all the nervures are fuscous- 

 brown. 



V. CORYTHAICA Stal, 1873, 120. 



Small elongate-oval species having the joints of antennae of 

 the same relative length as in Corythuca; hood elongate, curved 

 downward over the head, narrowed in front, its crest carinate, 



