SUBFAMILY IX. — PHYLIN.E. 923 



Dunedin, Fla., Nov. 18 — Feb. 6 (W.S.B.); several swept 

 from low ground herbage. Soledad, Cuba, Feb. 9 (Knight). 

 Described from Jamaica; not before recorded from this coun- 

 try. 



II. Microphylellus Reuter, 1909, 76. 



Small elongate- or oblong-oval species having the head 

 strongly declivent, about one-third narrower than base of pro- 

 notum ; beak reaching to or beyond hind coxae, its first joint 

 reaching base of head ; antennae slender, joint 1 usually passing 

 tip of tylus; pronotum with base about twice as wide as apex, 

 sides straight, hind lobe convex, declivent forward ; meso- 

 scutum rather broadly exposed ; elytra entire, membrane 2- 

 celled ; legs usually wholly pale, femora often with fuscous dots. 

 Seven species have been recorded from our territory. 



KEY TO EASTERN' SPECIES OF MICROPHYLELLUS. 



a. Embolium, cuneus and basal half of corium pale or yellowish; scutel- 

 lum pale with median line blackish; host plant, white oak. 



1026. MACULIPENNIS. 



aa. Elytra uniformly pale brown to black. 



b. Joint 2 of antenna? black; joint 1 pale on apical half; host plant, 

 large-leaved aster, Aster macrophyllus L. 1027. nigricornis. 

 bb. Joint 2 of antennae pale, sometimes fuscous at base. 



c. Second antennal shorter than width of pronotum at base. 

 d. Joint 1 of antennae yellowish, fuscous only at base; femora usually 

 with fuscous dots; length, 3 — 3.3 mm.; host plants, elm and 

 white oak. 1028. modestus. 



dd. Joint 1 of antennae brown or blackish. 



e. Smaller, length 2.6 — 2.8 mm. ; beak not reaching beyond base of 

 hind coxae; femora uniformly yellowish; host plant, hemlock. 



1029. tsuGjE. 

 ee. Larger, length 3.3 mm. ; beak reaching nearly to first ventral ; 

 femora with fuscous spots. 1030. tumidifrons. 



cc. Second antennal as long as or longer than width of pronotum at 

 base. 

 /. Beak reaching to or beyond fourth ventral; hind femora uniform- 

 ly pale; host plant, hazelnut. 1031. longirostris. 

 //. Beak reaching only to middle of hind coxae; hind femora with 

 fuscous spots on front face ; host plant, sugar maple. 



1032. elongatus. 



1026 ( — ). Microphylellus maculipennis Knight, 1923, 456. 



Pale fuscous with paler markings as in key, thickly clothed with fine 

 prostrate yellow pubescence; head blackish, vertex pale; pronotum with 

 middle of disk and basal angles greenish-yellow; mesoscutum blackish; 

 membrane fuscous-hyaline, paler along apical half of cuneus; legs pale 



