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Two specimens labelled types, in the collection of the United 

 States National Museum, numbered 18810, have been examined. 

 One was collected at Kirkwood, Missouri, the other in Lavaca 

 County, Texas. Many other specimens are in the same collec- 

 tion from Maryland, west to Arizona. It would appear that this 

 species occurs over the entire southern half of the United States. 

 Its food plants include Solanum carolinense (Horse nettle), 

 Solanum elaeagnifoliurn, Cassia species (Coffee weed), Amphia- 

 chrus species, Salvia pitcheri, Solanum species, eggplant, potato, 

 and cotton. Mr. David E. Fink in Bulletin number 239, U. S. 

 Dept. Agriculture gives an economic treatise of this species and 

 includes descriptions of the egg and nymphal stages. He terms 

 it the eggplant lace-bug. 



Gargaphia panamensis Champion 



1901. Champion, BioL Centr.-Amer., Heteropt., ii, j). 10. 



The writer, having seen no specimens of this species, is unable 

 to give a redescription, and therefore includes a copy of the 

 original description, which is in such detail as to make its identity 

 fairly certain. 



"Moderately elongate; ferrugineo-testaceous, the liody black beneatli, the 

 margins of the pronotum and the elytra subhyaHne; the antennae testaceous, 

 with the basal and apical joints black; the legs testaceous, with the tarsi and 

 the greater part of the tibiae infuscate; the margins of the pronotum and the 

 costal margin of the el>i:ra to about the middle very minutely denticulate. 

 Head with three short slender frontal spines, meeting at the tip; antennae long 

 and slender, joint one three times as long as two and nearly as long as four, two 

 very short. Pronotum with the membranous margins moderately wide, 

 rounded in front and behind and .sHghtly recurved, with three rows of small 

 areolae; hood rather small, oval, comj^ressed, angularly projecting in front; 

 the three carinae feebly foliaceous, the interspaces closely, finely punctate. 

 Elytra moderately long, arcuatelj' widened from the base, broadly rounded at 

 the tip; discoidal area narrow, barely one-third the length of the elytra, closely 

 reticulated; subcostal area as wide as the discoidal, closely reticulated; costal 

 area with four rows of areoles at the middle, diminishing to three at the base, 

 the areolae, except towards the base, where they are small, moderately large 

 and (like those of the sutural area) subequal in size. Length 2^, breadth 1| 

 millim. Hab. Panama, Caldera in Chiriqui (Champion)." 



No record of food plants was given. 



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