SUBFAMILY IX. — PHYLIN^. 951 



vertex, 2 four times longer than 1 ; 3 and 4 dusky yellow, united slightly 

 longer than 2. Length, 3 — 3.4 mm. 



Frequent throughout southern Indiana, less so in the north- 

 ern counties, June 10 — Sept. 13. Dunedin, Fla., Oct. 28 — April 

 13 (W. S. B.). Agricultural College, Miss. (Weed). Recorded 

 from Sanford and Crescent City, Fla. Occurs on weeds and 

 other low herbage along roadsides and on ferns in dense woods 

 and hammocks. Ranges from Ontario and New England west 

 to Colorado and Kansas, and southwest to Florida, Texas and 

 the West Indies. The older records were under the generic 

 name Episcopus Reut., which was preoccupied. A color variety 

 with outer half of clavus pale and cross-bar of corium reduced 

 to a spot on each, is known as variety uvidus (Dist.) . Host plant, 

 ragweed. 



1078 (1217). Reuteroscopus sulphureus (Reuter), 1907b, 23. 



Dull yellow, often with a greenish tinge; clothed with yellowish to 

 fuscous hairs, each arising from a minute fuscous spot, also with minute 

 tufts of silvery scale-like hairs arranged in rows on median line and 

 outer margins of head and pronotum, and disks of clavus and corium; 

 inner apical angles of corium, tip of clavus and spot on inner margin of 

 cuneus, fuscous; membrane hyaline, with minute fuscous spots near apex 

 and on margins just behind tip of cuneus. Length, 3.3 mm. 



Rock Island, Tex., June 9 (Minn. Univ. Coll.). A neotropical 

 species, described from Jamaica and recorded from Estero, 

 Tampa and Sevenoaks, Fla., by Van Duzee and from Massa- 

 chusetts and Missouri by Knight. Occurs on ragweed. 



X. Lepidopsallus Knight, 1923, 470. 



"Form short, ovate; body clothed with closely appressed 

 scale-like pubescence, interspersed with more erect simple 

 pubescent hairs ; head broad ; antennal segment 2 in length 

 not equal to width of head ; tibiae strongly spinose ; claws and 

 pseudarolia as shown in pi. X, fig. 3." (Knight). 



This genus was founded by Knight with Sthenarus rubidus 

 Uhl. (1895, 41), the No. 1256 of the Van Duzee Catalogue, as 

 the genotype. Seven species are known from the eastern states. 



KEY TO EASTERN SPECIES OF LEPIDOPSALLUS. 



a. Beak not reaching beyond hind coxae. 

 b. Second antennal scarcely longer than length of pronotum. 

 c. Larger, length, 3.2 — 3.5 mm.; joints 3 and 4 of antenna? united 

 slightly longer than joint 2; color black and reddish (wholly 



