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median carina, viewed from the side, percurrent, lateral ones usually 

 evident, but very low on apical and basal thirds, obsolete on middle. 

 Elytra at middle distinctly wider than pronotum, thence tapering to the 

 rounded tips; costal area narrow, reflexed, with a single entire row of 

 small cells and a second row on basal third. Length, 2.7 — 2.9 mm. 



Aberdeen, Miss., June 26 (Barber). Marsh Hall, Md., Aug. 3 

 (Cornell Univ. Coll.). Ranges from Maryland and Virginia west 

 to Illinois and Colorado and southwest to Arkansas and Missis- 

 sippi. Recorded as feeding on witch hazel and ash. The broad 

 elytra, costal area with double row of cells at base and the 

 short third antennal are the distinguishing characters of this 

 species. The L. distinguenda Heid. (1917, 218) is a synonym of 

 cost at a. 



473 (666%). Leptoypha elliptica McAtee, 1917, 57. 



Rather broadly elliptical, widest at middle of elytra. Straw-yellow 

 to pale reddish-brown; callosities on front half of pronotum and fourth 

 antennal black; first and second antennals and tarsi brown or fuscous; 

 legs reddish-brown ; under surface, nervures of membrane and in part 

 those of costal margins, brown; collar and bucculae yellowish-white. 

 Upper surface coarsely, closely punctate, the membrane and costal areas 

 with distinct areolae. Pronotum with median third twice as wide as apical 

 one, strongly convex; median carina percurrent, the lateral ones visible 

 only on posterior third. Elytra strongly widened at middle, thence nar- 

 rowed to the broadly rounded tips. Length, 2.8 — 3 mm. 



Posey Co., Ind., June 4. Its known range extends from 

 southern Indiana south to Georgia, Jacksonville, Fla., and 

 Texas. Occurs in Georgia on Ilex. The largest of our eastern 

 species, with costal area wider and more reflexed than in any 

 of the others. 



474 ( — ). Leptoypha mcateei Drake, 1921, 49. 



Elongate-oblong. Pale reddish-brown; a spot each side of apical 

 third and another each side of posterior third of pronotum, fuscous; 

 elytra with nervures of membrane and a large spot near apex of each 

 discoidal area, fuscous-brown; collar and buccula? dull yellow; antennae 

 and legs pale reddish-brown; under surface chestnut-brown. Joint 1 of 

 antennae slightly longer than 2, the latter obconical, 3 nearly four times 

 the length of 1 and 2 united. Pronotuum and its carina? as in elliptica. 

 Elytra much less widened at middle than there, thence narrowed to the 

 rounded tips, the costal margin very narrow with a single row of very 

 small cells. Length, 2.8 — 2.9 mm. 



Dunedin and Lake Wales, Fla., Nov. 28 — April 8 ; swept from 

 the foliage of the tall scurfy Ericad, Xolisma ferruginea (Walt.). 

 The types, taken at Gainesville, Fla., Aug. 13, were found on 



