TRIBE I. — GALEATINI. 477 



bose, not compressed ; elytra less strongly constricted, scarcely 

 widening again toward tips. 



441 (659). Gelchossa oblonga (Say), 1825, 325; II, 248. 



Elongate, subparallel. Head, disk of pronotum and under surface 

 black; hood, margins of paranota, tip of pronotum and costal area of 

 elytra white; discoidal and sutural areas and apical fourth of elytra 

 fuscous-brown; legs and third antennal straw-yellow; first antennal 

 brown, fourth fuscous. Head with three long, slender, acute yellowish 

 spines arising from vertex and two shorter ones below (fig. 97, a). Third 

 antennal much longer than in clitorise. Paranota with a single row of 

 large subquadrate cells. Costal area with one row of cells at base and 

 apex, two for a short distance behind middle. Length, 2.7 — 2.8 mm. 



Marion Co., Ind., June 9 — July 23. Swept from herbage in 

 dense upland woods. Ranges from Maryland and Virginia west 

 to South Dakota, Nebraska and Arkansas. Occurs, for the 

 most part, on the hog peanut, Falcata comosa (L.) , prairie clover, 

 Kuhnistera, false indigo, Amorpha fruticosa L., and other legumes. 

 The long slender spines of head and wholly white costal mar- 

 gin, with single row of cells at base of costal area distinguish 

 this from the other species. 



442 ( — ). Gelchossa heidemanni Osborn & Drake, 1916, 238. 



Differs from oblonga mainly by the characters given in key. Slightly 

 larger. Nervures of both paranota and costal margins in part dark and 

 the hyaline cells with a yellowish tinge. Spines of head with black tips. 

 First joint of antennae more swollen. Both pronotum and elytra some- 

 what wider, the latter with costal margins less parallel in front of the 

 post median constriction. Length, 3 — 3.2 mm. (PI. IV, fig. 5). 



Long and Staten Islands, N. Y., May 19— Nov. 16 (Davis) ; 

 taken from wild indigo, Baptisia tinctoria L. Numerous stations 

 in New Jersey (Weiss). Ranges from New England west to 

 Arkansas and south to Louisiana. Not as yet taken in either 

 Indiana or Florida, but should occur in both states. McAfee 

 (1917, 64) mentions it as "extremely common about Washing- 

 ton, D. C, on its food plant, Baptisia tinctoria L., which is not 

 only often but usually severely injured by the feeding opera- 

 tions of these little Tingids."" ,s 



IX. Leptodictya Stal, 1873, 127. 



Small oval species having the head armed with five long slen- 

 der spines; hood small, compressed, triangular, extended over 

 base of head ; paranota relatively narrow, with two or three 



BS For life history see Weiss & West, Ent. News, 1924, 56. 



