SUBFAMILY IX. — PHYLIN^E. 957 



New Hampshire, New York and Minnesota. Host plant, Alnus 

 rugosa (Du Roi). 



1088 (1218). Psallus seriatus (Reuter), 1876, 91. 



Pale greenish-yellow, thickly flecked with minute reddish-brown or 

 fuscous dots; head and margins of pronotum sometimes a deeper yellow; 

 extreme tip of cuneus often dark brown; membrane pale hyaline, the 

 basal half vaguely fuscous, veins yellow; legs greenish yellow, femora 

 dotted with fuscous; tibial spines and spots at their base black, the spots 

 conspicuous; tarsi fuscous; under surface straw-yellow, finely pubes- 

 cent. Joints 1 and 2 of antennas yellow, dotted with black; 1 two-thirds 

 as long as width of vertex; 2 four times longer than 1, nearly as stout, 

 male, more slender, female; 3 and 4 fuscous, much more slender, united 

 slightly shorter than 2. Pronotum more than twice as wide at base as 

 long; calli rather prominent, well separated; disk, as well as that of 

 elytra, with suberect black hairs intermixed with very fine prostrate ones. 

 Length, 2.5—2.8 mm. 



Dunedin, Fla., March 28 — April 16 ; swept from grasses along 

 the margins of hammocks and ponds (W.S.B.). Claremont, 

 Cal. (Gerhard). Recorded from Sevenoaks, Tampa and Atlan- 

 tic Beach, Fla. Ranges from Maryland southwest to Arizona 

 and from Colorado to the Pacific. The Claremont specimens 

 are smaller, paler, with fewer dots on antenna? and smaller ones 

 on hind femora than those from Florida. 



1089 (— ). Psallus strobicola Knight, 1923, 467. 



Fuscous-black, clothed with closely appressed silvery-gray hairs 

 mixed with suberect dusky ones ; membrane and veins uniformly fus- 

 cous; legs yellow, coxa? blackish, paler at tips; tibial spines black, with- 

 out black spots at base. Antennae yellow, joint 1 one-half as long as 

 width of vertex, 2 five and three-fifth times as long as 1, 3 two-thirds the 

 length of 2, 4 three-fifths as long as 3. Beak reaching first ventral. 

 Length, 3.1 — 3.5 mm. 



St. Anthony Park, Minn., July 14 (Minn. Univ. Coll.) . Re- 

 corded elsewhere only from Quebec and New York. Breeds on 

 white pine, Pinus strobus L. 



1090 (1244). Psallus variabilis (Fallen), 1807, 88. 



Head dull yellow to black; antennae straw-yellow, base of joint 1 

 black; pronotum and scutellum usually black or brownish-black; elytra 

 variable, reddish-yellow to piceous, corium in dark specimens with outer 

 half dark brown, tinged with reddish ; cuneus reddish-brown or black, its 

 base narrowly pale; membrane fuscous, iridescent, often with a vague 

 curved pale streak at middle, a white mark between cells and tip of 

 cuneus, basal half of outer cell white, veins brown; legs reddish-brown 

 to blackish, in darker forms the femora more or less yellowish apically, 

 tibiae yellow with short erect black spines arising from black spots; 



