EDMUND H. GIBSON 191 



9. All five frontal spines erect, long. Nervures of elytra concolorous. 



fasciata StM 



The two basal spines not erect, median spine long, anterior spines not long. 



Nervures of elytra not of uniform color patricia St§,l 



10. Costal area with two rows of areolae 12 



Costal area with three rows of areolae 11 



1 1 . Nervures of elytra concolorous. Hood nearly as broad as long. 



albescens Drake 



Nervures of elytra not of a uniform color. Hood nearly twice as long as 



broad irideseens Champion 



12. Subcostal area with two rows of areolae 13 



Subcostal area with three or more rows of areolae 14 



13. Lateral margins of pronotum angulate. Hood comparatively small. 



General color dark condensa new species 



Lateral margins of pronotum rounding. Hood larger. General color 

 light vanduzeei new species 



14. Subcostal area with less than four rows of areolae 15 



Subcostal area with four rows of areolae lasciva new species 



15. Pronotal carinae low, without distinct areolae opacula Uhler 



Pronotal carinae high, with large clear areolae carinata new species 



Gargaphia angulata Heidemann 



1899. Heidemann, Can. Ent., xxxi, p. 301. 



1900. Chittenden, U. S. Dept. Agr., Div. Ent., Bull. n. s. xxiii, p. 32, fig. 8. 

 1910. Smith, Cat. Ins. N. J., edn. 3, fig. 63, p. 149. 



1916. Csborn and Drake, Ohio St. Univ. Bull, xx, p. 233, fig. 6. 



1917. Parshley, Occasional Papers Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vii, p. 56. 

 1917. McAfee, Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc., xii, p. 79. 



1917. Van Duzee, Catalogue of Hemiptera of North America, p. 218, no. 657. 

 Head dark shiny. Three frontal spines reduced to mere light colored conical 

 stubs. Ba.sal head spines mere decumbent hairs, not plainly visible without 

 removing pronotal hood. First three segments of antennae light, concolorous, 

 hairy. Fourth segment dark except basal third. Pronotum dark, punctate. 

 Pronotal hood twice as long as broad. Three parallel carina with one row of 

 areoles. Lateral membranous margins wide, with four rows of areoles at its 

 widest point, distinctly angular. Membranous portions of pronotum yellow- 

 ish or dirty white and hairy. Elytra with four rows of areoles at the widest 

 part of costal area, subcostal area with two rows of areoles. Nervures of 

 elytra yellowish. Length, 3.4 mm; width, 1.6 mm. 



Type, a male from Auburn, Alabama, number 4371, in the 

 United States National Museum. This and a long series of 

 specimens from New Jersey to Arizona have -been examined. 

 Mr. H. M. Parshley records its capture in Massachusetts and 

 Connecticut. It would, therefore, appear that its present dis- 

 tribution reaches from the New England States south and west 



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