484 FAMILY XV. — TINGIDID.-E. 



c. Costal area of elytra with two regular rows of cells ; beak reach- 

 ing between hind coxae. 449. plexa. 

 cc. Costal area with three regular rows of cells; beak reaching be- 

 tween middle coxa?. 450. brevirostris. 

 bb. Larger, length 4.5 or more mm.; third antennal slender at base, 

 much enlarged at apex. 451. major. 

 aa. Beak reaching onto second ventral; elytra grayish-brown, the ner- 

 vures more or less fuscous; costal area with two or three irregular 

 rows of cells. 452. variegata. 



449 (665). Physatocheila plexa (Say), 1832, 27; I, 349. 



Elongate-oval. Color a nearly uniform reddish-brown, tinged with 

 yellowish, rarely with reflexed paranota and discoidal area in part fus- 

 cous; eyes black; fourth antennal and third tarsal fuscous. Beak reach- 

 ing between hind coxae. Hood-like elevation of pronotum, and reflexed 

 paranota very closely and coarsely punctate; remainder of paranota 

 and discoidal areas of elytra finely and closely punctate, the latter with 

 margins slightly elevated. Elytra broadly and regularly curved from 

 the narrow base to the rounded tips, the cells of the costal area rather 

 large, quite regular in form and size, for the most part translucent. 

 Length, 3— 3.5 mm. (PI. IV, fig. 4). 



Ashland and Sherborn, Mass., May 2 — Nov. 12 ; taken by- 

 sifting (Frost). Ranges from Quebec and New England west 

 to Michigan and Illinois and south to Virginia and District of 

 Columbia. The P. parshleyi G. & D. (1917a, 155) is a synonym. 

 Bueno has taken plexa in September on oak at Yaphank, N. Y., 

 and McAtee on hickory and laurel. 



450 (665%). Physatocheila brevirostris Osborn & Drake, 1916, 243. 



Elongate-oval. Color above and beneath a uniform dull reddish- 

 brown; antennae and legs of the same hue, the fourth antennal and tarsi 

 darker. Beak reaching between middle coxae. Hood-like elevation and 

 reflexed paranota a little less coarsely punctate than in plexa. Costal 

 area with rows of punctures more regular than there, those of the outer 

 row the larger. Characters otherwise as in plexa to which it is very 

 closely related. Length, 3.2 — 3.5 mm. 



Lakehurst, N. J., May 29 (Davis). Ranges from Massachu- 

 setts and Connecticut west to Ohio and south to Virginia, the 

 records for the most part being for May and June without men- 

 tion of food plant. 



451 ( — ). Physatocheila major Osborn & Drake, 1917a, 158. 



Elongate-oval. Color a nearly uniform dull clay yellow, above very 

 sparsely beset with minute yellowish hairs, beneath thickly clothed with 

 fine silvery pubescence; eyes dark brown; fourth antennal, a cloud on 

 posterior half of pronotum, a cross-bar on middle of elytra and some of 



