472 FAMILY XV. — TINGIDIDjE. 



tennae pale straw yellow; under surface dark brown. Antennae as in 

 bellula. Paranota and basal portion of pronotum distinctly narrower 

 than there. Sides of paranota sinuate at middle, carinas of pronotum of 

 equal height throughout. Elytra conjointly narrowly oval, slightly sur- 

 passing apex of abdomen, their costal margins broadly curved from base 

 to apex, not sinuate, much narrower and less reflexed than in bellula; 

 discoidal and subcostal areas also much narrower than there, each with 

 three regular rows of small crowded cells. Length, 2 mm. 



Dunedin, Fla., March 6; one specimen sifted from grass 

 roots on the margin of a pond. A darker, much narrower and 

 more strongly tapering form than bellula, with cells of paranota, 

 subcostal and discoidal areas much smaller and more crowded. 



VI. DlCTYONOTA Curtis, 1827, 154. 



Small oval species having the head armed with two anteocu- 

 lar divergent spines and two slender ones on vertex; bucculae 

 widely separated in front exposing the base of beak; antennae 

 very stout, the joints of nearly equal thickness, rugose and 

 setose ; pronotal hood transverse ; paranota wide, narrowed be- 

 hind, somewhat reflexed and concave above ; lateral carinas of 

 pronotum low, each with a single row of areolae, median one 

 somewhat higher, often with part of a second row ; elytra with- 

 out discal elevations, costal and discoidal areas subequal in 

 width, the former with two, the latter with three rows of 

 areolae; osteola absent. Represented in this country by a 

 variety of Dictyonota tricornis (Schrank), a European palaearctic 

 species. 



434 (637%). Dictyonota tricornis Americana Parshley, 1916a, 163. 



Oblong-oval. Head and disk of pronotum fuscous-black; nervures of 

 elytra brown, areolae mostly grayish-white; ^gs and body beneath dark 

 brown; antenna? blackish-brown. Hood small, transverse, covering base 

 of vertex, with two or three rows of cells. Paranota narrowed behind, 

 with three or four rows of cells. Discoidal area reaching nearly to 

 apex of abdomen, its bounding veins elevated, the inner one curved, disk 

 with three irregular rows of ceMs. Ventrals with apical half finely 

 shagreened. Other characters as under genus heading. Length, 3 mm. 



Recorded only from Eastport, Machias and Roque Bluff, Me., 

 July 15—26. 



VII. GARGAPHIA Stal, 1862, 324. 



Small or medium elongate-oblong species, having the head 

 usually armed with five spines of variable lengths, three on the 

 front between the eyes and two on occiput; first and second 



