Fig. 190, X 12. (After Forbes). 



SUBFAMILY IX. — PHYLI1NLE. 947 



1072 (1260). Chlamydatus associatus (Uhler), 1872, 419. 



Oblong, subparallel, male; suboval, female. Black or fuscous-black, 

 shining, sparsely clothed with fine black, suberect hairs; membrane dusky 

 translucent, feebly iridescent, joints 1 and 2 of antenna? black, 3 and 4 



and sometimes apex of 2 dusky yel- 

 low; front and hind coxa?, hind 

 femora except tips and spines of 

 tibia? black; remainder of legs pale 

 yellow; tips of tarsi and beak pice- 

 ous. Beak reaching tips of hind 

 coxa?. Front of pronotum less nar- 

 rowed and calli more distinct than 

 in our other two species. Length, 

 2.5 mm. (Fig. 190). 



Marion and Putnam coun- 

 ties, Ind., May 22— Oct. 5 ; fre- 

 quent locally on both great 

 and common ragweeds, flowers 

 of Cratagus, etc. (W.S.B.). 

 Swannanoa, N. Car., Oct. 5 

 (Brimley). Ranges from Que- 

 bec and New England west to the Pacific and southwest to 

 North Carolina, Texas and New Mexico. Forbes (1900, 88) re- 

 ports it as somewhat injurious to sugar beets. The elytra in 

 some specimens taken in early summer are more fuscous-brown 

 and more thickly pubescent with grayish hairs than those of 

 later dates. 



1073 (1259). Chlamydatus suavis (Reuter), 1876, 92. 



Smaller and more oval than associatus. Color much the same; all 

 the coxa? and femora black; tibia? dull yellow to fuscous, their spines 

 black, and, as in associatus, without spots at base; antenna? sometimes 

 wholly fuscous-black, more often with apical half of joint 2 and all of 3 

 and 4 dusky yellow. Pronotum with front narrower and calli less evident 

 than in associatus. Length, 2 — 2.3 mm. 



Marion, Knox and Posey counties, Ind., Aug. 19 — Sept. 22; 

 swept from roadside herbage. Dunedin, Fla., Jan. 20 — April 

 4 ; swept from ferns along the margins of hammocks. Raleigh 

 and Hendersonville, N. Car., June — July (Brimley). Ranges 

 from Ontario and New York west to Kansas and southwest to 

 Florida, Texas and California. Host plant, ragweed. 



1074 (1258). Chlamydatus pulicarius (Fallen), 1807, 95. 



Oblong-oval. Fuscous-black, sparsely clothed with short grayish or 

 yellowish hairs; membrane and veins uniformly blackish, iridescent; 



