TRIBE I. — GALEATINI. 



475 



Fig. 106, X 9. 

 (After Heidemann). 



Fort Montgomery, N. Y., July 26 (Davis). Vienna, Va., 

 Aug. 26 (Weiss). Ranges from New England and New York 

 south and west to Missouri, Alabama and Arizona. Known to 

 injure beans to some extent, but its prin- 

 cipal food plant is said by McAtee to be 

 Jersey-tea, Ceanothus americanus L. 



439 ( — ). Gargaphia bimaculata P a r s h 1 e y, 

 1920a, 271. 

 Elongate-oval. Head and body black, the 

 sterna whitish-pubescent; margins of bucculse and 

 sternal groove white; antenna? with first and 

 fourth joints, in great part, dark brown, second 

 and third reddish-brown ; legs and beak dull yel- 

 low, the tarsi darker; nervures of upper surface 

 straw-yellow, the cells hyaline; carina of hood and 

 front portions of pronotal carina? dark brown, 

 anterior three-fourths of pronotum blackish, thickly clothed with white 

 pubescence; triangular posterior fourth of pronotum and discoidal areas 

 of elytra dull white, the latter each with a triangular brown spot on 

 apical third. Fourth joint of antennae one-half longer than first. Mar- 

 gins of paranota distinctly angulate behind middle, their edges fringed 

 with long hairs. Carina? of pronotum each with one row of cells, the 

 median one slightly higher than hood. Costal area of elytra with three 

 rows of areolae at middle, two at each end. Length, 2.7 — 3 mm. 



Dunedin, Fla., Oct. 25 — March 28 ; taken in the axil of leaf of 

 thistle and swept from herbage in low moist soil. Described 

 from Biscayne Bay, Fla., and known only from that State. 



VIII. Gelchossa Kirkaldy, 1904, 280. 



Small, elongate, subparallel species having the antennae slen- 

 der, first joint three to five times the length of second, third 

 longer than the others united, fourth slightly longer than first ; 

 head with three to five spines; hood compressed, not bulbous 

 behind, occupying only the anterior third of pronotum and 

 covering only the occiput; pronotum tricarinate, the carina? 

 percurrent, each with a single row of cells ; paranota narrow 

 with not more than two rows of cells ; elytra without tumid 

 elevations, constricted about the middle, extending much be- 

 yond tip of abdomen ; costal area with one to four rows of 

 hyaline cells, subcostal area often very narrow, with one to 

 three rows of smaller cells ; discoidal area not reaching middle 

 of elytra; sternal groove not interrupted. Three species are 

 recorded from the eastern states. They occur mainly on plants 



