SUBFAMILY IX. — PHYLIN^. 953 



legs black, tarsi fuscous, some of the tibial spines more than twice as 

 long as the thickness of tibia ; ventrals black, clothed with silvery scales. 

 Joints 1 and 2 of antennae black, 2 cylindrical, equal in thickness to 1, one- 

 fifth longer than width of pronotum at base; 3 and 4 pale fuscous, 3 

 three-fifths as long as 2, 4 two-thirds the length of 3. Length, 2.4 — 

 2.6 mm. 



Recorded only from White Plains, N. Y., where it was taken 

 July 10 by Bueno on apple. 



1081 ( — ). Lepidopsallus olseni Knight, 1923, 473. 



Oblong-oval, flattened above. Black with pubescence as in the 

 other species, the silvery scales scarcely truncate at tip ; membrane pale 

 fuscous, veins reddish-brown; legs black, tibiae tinged with reddish. Joint 

 1 of antennae one-half as long as width of vertex, 2 four times as long as 

 1, feebly thickened from base to apex, more slender than 1; 3 one-half 

 as long as 2. Length, 2.7 mm. 



Described from a single female taken July 28 by Olsen at 

 Pigeon Cove, Mass. 



1082 ( — ). Lepidopsallus miniatus Knight, 1926a, 226. 



Oblong-oval. Above fuscous-brown and reddish, sparsely clothed 

 with conspicuous appressed scale-like hairs and finer suberect brownish 

 ones; head fuscous or reddish-fuscous; pronotum fuscous-brown at mid- 

 dle, the sides reddish; mesoscutum and scutellum reddish to fuscous; 

 elytra in great part fuscous-brown, cuneus and usually the apical third 

 or more of embolium, a clearer red; membrane pale brownish translucent, 

 veins reddish or yellowish; femora reddish, their apical fourth pale yel- 

 low; tibiae dull yellow with conspicuous black spines, coxae and tarsi fus- 

 cous; under surface dull yellow, ventrals tinged with reddish. Joints 1 

 and 2 of antennae wholly pale yellow, 3 and 4 dusky yellow; 1 very short, 

 scarcely one-half as long as width of vertex, 2 feebly but visibly thickened 

 from base to apex, four times longer than 1, 3 and 4 united one-fifth 

 shorter than 2, 4 two-thirds as long as 3. Pronotum twice as wide at 

 base as long, apex two-thirds as wide as base, disk minutely transversely 

 wrinkled. Costal margins of elytra broadly but distinctly curved. Length, 

 2.8—3 mm. 



Dunedin, Ft. Myers and Hillsboro Canal, Fla., Feb. 19 — 

 April 8 ; beaten from foliage of live oak and wax-myrtle, sifted 

 from the mucky debris of an extinct wet weather pond and 

 swept from low herbage along the bay front. Known also from 

 South Carolina. 



1083 ( — ). Lepidopsallus australis sp. nov. 



Elongate-oval. Dull red, above thickly clothed with conspicuous, 

 oval appressed whitish scales, intermixed with short inclined blackish 

 hairs; scutellum, embolium and cuneus a somewhat brighter red; mem- 



