SUBFAMILY IX. — PHYLIN^. 943 



two or three rows of black spots, black spots of tibiae large; ventrals 

 greenish-yellow. Antennae yellowish, joint 1 with black rings as in key, 

 shorter than head ; 2 black at base, three times longer than 1 ; 3 and 4 

 filiform, 3 two-thirds the length of 2, 4 two-fifths as long as 3. Beak 

 reaching second ventral. Length, 3.8 — 4.3 mm. 



Ithaca, N. Y., June 30 (Minn. Univ. Coll.) . Chalfont and Mus- 

 well Hill, England, July — August (British. Mus. Coll.) . A Euro- 

 pean species known in this country from Ontario, New Eng- 

 land and New York. Host plant the oxeye daisy, Chrysanthe- 

 mum leucanthemum L. As already noted, American records have 

 mostly been under the name Oncotylus punctipes Reut. 



1065 (1237). Plagiognathus albatus Van Duzee, 1915, 116. 



Pale greenish-translucent, rather thickly clothed with whitish hairs; 

 tylus and cheeks piceous; sides, or at least the basal angles, of pronotum, 

 inner half or more of clavus and inner apical half of corium, strongly 

 tinged with fuscous ; membrane pale translucent with cells and ray along 

 the margins dusky; hind femora with two rows of small vague blackish 

 dots on outer face, tibia? with black spots at base of spinules very small, 

 apical half of tarsi and tip of beak fuscous; under surface yellow, female; 

 ventrals and sterna black, male. Joint 1 of antennae black, pale at tip, 

 two-thirds as long as width of vertex ; 2 and 3 yellow, 2 three and a half 

 times longer than 1, 3 two-fifths the length of 2; 4 dusky, one-third as 

 long as 3. Pronotum nearly twice as wide at base as long, sides feebly 

 sinuate, hind margin almost straight, calli large, contiguous; disk, as 

 well as that of clavus, and corium very minutely punctate, each puncture 

 bearing a fine whitish hair. Length, 4 — 4.2 mm. 



Marion Co., Ind., June 26. Dunedin, Fla., April 13; swept 

 from low herbage along the margin of a moist hammock ; 

 the first records for both states. Not before recorded south of 

 the District of Columbia. Ranges from New England west to 

 California. Knight (1923, 445) gives the sycamore, Platanus 

 occidcntalis L., as the host plant. He there describes two va- 

 rieties, one of which, vittiscutis, is a mere color form found on 

 butternut and distinguished only by characters given in key. 

 The other, si mil is, I regard as a valid species, and it is described 

 below. 



1066 (1230). Plagiognathus delicatus (Uhler), 1887a, 34. 



Pale brownish-yellow, often with a pinkish tinge; front of head each 

 side with a short fuscous stripe; calli sometimes blackish or bordered 

 behind by an impressed fuscous line; scutellum as in key; elytra tinged 

 with fuscous-brown; cuneus with base and margins paler than the red- 

 dish disk; membrane dusky hyaline, a median area and spot each side 

 near tip of cuneus whitish; legs dull yellow, femora as in key; tibial 

 spines and spots at base and tips of tarsi blackish; ventrals dark brown, 



