SUBFAMILY IX. — PHYLIN^E. 959 



2 of antennas brownish-black, 1 almost as long as width of vertex, 2 

 four times as long as 1 ; 3 and 4 dusky yellow, 3 two-thirds as long as 2, 

 4 slightly more than half the length of 3. Length, 4 — 4.5 mm. 



Hennepin Co., Minn., Aug. 2 (Minn. Univ. Coll.) . Recorded 

 from Massachusetts, New York and Minnesota. Occurs on the 

 low birch, Betula pumila L. A form with femora black, tips pale 

 and corium wholly brownish-black is var. fuscatus Knight. 



1094 (— ). Psallus waldeni Knight, 1923, 468. 



Oblong, suboval. Fuscous-brown, pronotum and elytra clothed with 

 erect pubescent hairs, intermixed with appressed paler ones; membrane 

 pale fuscous, veins paler; legs yellowish to fuscous-brown, femora with 

 dark spots as in key; tibiae with two rows of prominent black spines, each 

 with a large black spot at base; tarsi fuscous; ventrals black. Joints 1 

 and 2 of antennae black, finely pale pubescent, 1 scarcely one-half as long 

 as width of vertex, 2 four times as long as 1 ; 3 and 4 fuscous-brown, 3 

 two-thirds as long as 2, 4 two-thirds the length of 3. Beak reaching 

 middle of hind coxae. Length, 2.5 mm. 



New Haven, Conn., May 30 (Walden). Known only from 

 there. 



1095 (— ). Psallus piceicola Knight, 1923, 469. 



Oblong, sides subparallel. Head and pronotum brownish-black, 

 elytra fuscous-brown, pubescence yellowish; base of cuneus and tip of 

 embolium pale translucent, remainder of cuneus reddish-brown; mem- 

 brane pale fuscous, paler at middle and near tip of cuneus, veins tinged 

 with reddish; legs as in key; ventrals brownish-black tinged with reddish, 

 pale pubescent. Joints 1 and 2 of antennae dull yellow, 1 three-fifths as 

 long as width of vertex, 2 three and one-third times as long as 1 ; 3 and 

 4 dusky, 3 three-fifths as long as 2, 4 slightly shorter than 3. Beak reach- 

 ing first ventral. Head strongly vertical, subcompressed. Length, 2.8 — 



3 mm. 



Canby, Minn., June 24 (Minn. Univ. Coll.). Recorded only 

 from New York and Minnesota. Breeds on spruce. 



1096 (1243). Psallus ancorifer Fieber, 1858, 336. 



Elongate-oval. Brownish-black to black, moderately shining, thickly 

 clothed with yellowish appressed pubescence intermixed with suberect 

 blackish hairs; elytra often brownish or brownish-yellow, cuneus some- 

 times reddish; color of legs as in key. Joint 1 of antennae black, half 

 as long as width of vertex; 2 slender, black, brownish apically, one-fourth 

 longer than width of head across eyes; 3 and 4 dusky yellow, 3 three- 

 fifths the length of 2, 4 two-fifths as long as 3. Beak reaching hind 

 coxae. Length, 3.8 — 4.2 mm. 



Washington, D. C, June 19 (Minn. Univ. Coll.). Southern 

 France (British Mus. Coll.). A European species ranging in this 



