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FAMILY XV. — TINGIDID^E. 



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Springs, 111., June 23 — July 14 (Gerhard). Ranges from New 

 England west to Nebraska, Wisconsin and Manitoba. The 



seven Indiana specimens at 

 hand are all macropterous. 

 Bueno (1908a, 231) took it 

 at White Plains, N. Y., in 

 July and August, "mainly by 

 sweeping in rank weedy 

 places near damp swampy 

 meadows." The only char- 

 acters used by Stal (1873, 

 131) in separating his lurida 

 from clavata, pertain to the 

 antennas and are sexual rath- 

 er than specific. His lurida, 

 therefore, represents the 

 male of clavata. 



'.\y\ : \['i ..•/"• ■' 463 (669). Melanorhopala re- 



• \ FLEXA sp. nov. 



Elongate-oval. Head and 

 pronotum dark reddish-brown ; 

 Fig. 117. Brachypterous female, X 10. elytra pale fuscous-brown, the 

 (After Drake, Ann. Carnegie Mus.). m&in nervureg blackish-brown; 



paranota and costal area dull yellow, some of the cross nervures of the 

 latter fuscous. Joints 1 and 2 of antennas reddish-brown, 1 stout, visi- 

 bly curved, twice as long as 2; 3 more than twice as long as the others 

 united, straw-yellow, its apical sixth blackish and feebly swollen; 4 

 blackish, fusiform, slightly more slender than apex of 3, about as long 

 as 1. Spines of head shorter and stouter than in clavata, the median 

 one appressed, not suberect as there. Beak reaching between middle 

 coxa?. Pronotum shorter, the middle of disk more convex than in cla- 

 vata; paranota and apex of hind lobe as in key. Discoidal area bisected 

 by a strong oblique blackish nerve, this forked near middle. Tips of 

 elytra rather broadly obliquely rounded and overlapping, surpassing 

 abdomen by one-third their length. Costal area with a single row of 

 rounded cells, these distinctly smaller than the oblong ones of clavata. 

 Length, 6.8 mm. 



Marion Co., Ind., June 26 ; one macropterous female swept 

 from white-top in an open meadow. I at first considered this 

 as M. uniformis Stal, but Drake (1926, 376) has placed that 

 species as a synonym of clavata. The figure of the type of uni- 

 formis as shown by him has the apex of hind lobe of pronotum 

 much more acute and the paranota not reflexed as in reflexa. 



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