SUBFAMILY IX. — PHYLIN^. 945 



apical half of corium and embolium, and spot on apical half of cuneus, 

 dark brown; membrane with cells and a submarginal stripe on apical 

 half brown, remainder of apical half and veins pale; hind femora dull 

 yellow, with two rows of dark spots, front and middle femora with rows 

 of smaller spots; under surface chestnut-brown, shining, the sides of 

 ventrals in part pale. Joint 1 of antenna? black, its tip pale, two-thirds 

 as long as width of vertex; 2 pale yellow, basal fourth black, three and 

 a half times longer than 1 ; 3 and 4 yellowish, 3 two-thirds the length of 

 2, 4 five-eighths as long as 1. Pronotum twice as wide at base as long, 

 calli large and low, separated by an impressed line; disk minutely punc- 

 tate. Length, 3.5 — 3.8 mm. 



Marshall Co., Ind., June 11 ; beaten from its host plant, Alnus 

 incana (L.). Described as a variety of albatus Van D. 



1070 ( — ) . Plagiognathus cary^e Knight, 1923, 448. 



Color as in key, clothed with fine pale yellow pubescence; tylus and 

 lower half of face fuscous; pronotum dark brown, middle of disk and calli 

 more or less yellowish; scutellum brownish-yellow, median stripe and 

 mesoscutum brownish-black; elytra as in key, basal half of embolium, 

 anal ridges and inner basal angle of cuneus yellowish-translucent; mem- 

 brane fuscous, veins yellowish, small spot near apex of cuneus whitish; 

 legs straw-yellow tinged with dusky, femora often with two rows of small 

 vague black spots on front face; ventrals fusco-yellowish. Joint 1 of 

 antennae black, its tip pale, three-fourths as long as width of vertex; 2 

 yellowish with fuscous ring at base, the apex dusky, four and two-fifths 

 times the length of 1 ; 3 and 4 dusky yellow, 3 three-fifths as long as 2, 

 4 three-fifths the length of 3. Length, 3.4 — 3.9 mm. 



Ithaca, N. Y., June 22 (Minn. Univ. Coll.). Recorded else- 

 where from Batavia, N. Y., and Agricultural College, Miss. 

 Occurs on hickory and pecan. 



V. Microsynamma Fieber, 1864, 74. 



Elongate-oval species having the head feebly exserted, twice 

 as wide across eyes as long, its front pointed, subvertical ; ver- 

 tex convex, its crest almost level with upper margin of eyes; 

 beak reaching hind coxae ; antennae shorter than body ; eyes 

 large, prominent ; pronotum trapezoidal, nearly twice as wide 

 at base as long, sides straight, disk slightly declivent forward, 

 hind margin straight ; elytra entire, slightly surpassing abdo- 

 men, clavus convex, deflected to corium, cuneus and membrane 

 slightly deflexed ; femora rather stout, hind ones flattened on 

 sides. One introduced European species occurs in the eastern 

 states. 



1071 ( — ). Microsynamma bohemanni (Fallen), 1829, 106. 



Fuscous-brown, shining, clothed with short yellow hairs; head with 

 base of vertex and a streak along inner side of each eye yellowish; disk 



