474 FAMILY XV. — TINGIDID^. 



Food plant, the bass-wood or linden, Tilia americana L., but oc- 

 curs also on red-bud, Cercis canadensis L., sycamore and wild 

 cherry. Ranges from New England west to South Dakota, 

 Colorado and Kansas, and south to Virginia and North Caro- 

 lina. The G. fascial a Stal (1873, 125) is a synonym. 



436 (654a). Gargaphia AMORPH.E (Walsh), 1864, 409. 



Form slightly broader than in tilise, color much the same, the dark 

 cross-bar of elytra usually more distinct. Paranota with three rows of 

 larger cells. Hood smaller, narrower, slightly higher than median carina. 

 Discoidal area with five rows of cells, more widened and more rounded 

 toward apex than in tilia;, its apical angle nearer the outside than middle, 

 thus making the angle more obtuse; costal margin less parallel than in 

 tilise, slightly sinuate behind middle. Length, 4.2 — 4.5 mm. 



Posey Co., Ind., May 11 — June 2 ; swept from the false indigo, 

 Amorpha fruticosa L. The types of Walsh were found on the 

 same plant. Recorded from Illinois, Virginia, North Carolina 

 and Mississippi. 



437 (658). Gargaphia solani Heidemann, 1914, 136. 



Elongate, subparallel. Body, anterior two-thirds of pronotum and 

 joints 1, 2 and 4 of antennae, piceous-black; legs yellow, the tarsi darker; 

 nervures of upper surface brownish-yellow, sometimes in part blackish, 

 cells hyaline. Hood large for the genus, four times as long as wide, its 

 crest slightly higher than that of median carina. Paranota as in key, 

 their margins, as well as carina? of pronotum thickly pilose with long 

 erect hairs. Pronotum coarsely and closely punctate, its carime arched, 

 each with one row of large cells. Costal area of elytra with three to 

 five rows of large cells, its transverse nervures blackish. Length, 

 4 — 4.2 mm. 



Apple Grove, Ohio, Aug. 17 (Gerhard). Swannanoa, N. Car., 

 Oct. 17 (Brimley) . Known as the egg-plant lace-bug, as it often 

 does much damage to that vegetable." 7 Ranges from Maryland 

 west to Missouri and southwest to Texas and Arizona. Not as 

 yet recorded from either Indiana or Florida, but probably oc- 

 curs in both States. Frequent in southern Ohio on the horse 

 nettle and other Solanaceae. 



438 (657). Gargaphia angulata Heidemann, 1899, 301. 



Broadly oval. Color much as in tilise, the pronotum densely pubes- 

 cent; elytra without a premedian dark cross-bar, but discoidal areas 

 each with a brown spot on apical half. Front of head with very shoi't, 

 blunt whitish spines. Paranota with four rows of areola? at the widest 

 point, their margins densely fringed with long hairs. Length, 3.3 — 3.5 

 mm. (Fig. 106; PI. IV, fig. 7). 



57 See Fink. Hull. 2:;'., l\ S. Dept. Agr. 



