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The type, a male, number 1150, in the collection of the United 

 States National Museum, has been examined, together with a 

 long series from states including New Hampshire, Connecticut, 

 New York, Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, Tennessee, 

 Illinois, Missouri, and Wisconsin. The species probably is well 

 distributed over the entire eastern half of the United States and 

 southern Canada. 



Basswood appears to be the most common food plant of the 

 species. It has also been recorded on wild cherry. 



Gargaphia amorphae Walsh 



1864. Wiilsh, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phila., iii, p. 409. 



1886. Uhler, Check List, p. 22. 



1892. Bergroth, Revue d'Ent., xi, p. 264. 



1904. Wirtner, Ann. Cam. Mus., iii, p. 202. 



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



1916. Osborn and Drake, Ohio St. Univ. Bull., xx, p. 235. 



1917. McAtee, Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc, xii, no. 4, p. 79. 



1917. Van Duzee, Catalogue of Hemiptera in North America, p. 217, no. 654. 



Differing from tiliae Walsh only in the slightly smaller and 

 narrower pronotal hood, and in the apical angle of the discoidal 

 area of the elytra not being about median, but instead noticeably 

 nearer the outside than center, thus making the angle larger than 

 in tiliae. This is true in both sexes. 



The type, a female, numbered 1141, is in the collection of the 

 United States National Museum. Other specimens from West 

 Virginia and North Carolina have been examined. 



Walsh records False Indigo {Atnorpha fruticosa) as its food 

 plant. 



Gargaphia fasciata St&l 



1873. St&l, Enum. Hemip., iii, p. 125. 



Head small, black, all five spines erect, the anterior pair about one-half as 

 long as median spine. Median and basal spines about equal in length. First 

 three segments of antennae j'ellowish brown, fourth black. Hair.s short and 

 comparatively few in numbers. Pronotal hood small, tw-ice as long as broad. 

 Pronotum l^hick. Parallel carinae normal. Lateral membranous margins 

 rounding, with four rows of areoles at point of greatest width. Nervures of 

 membranous portions yellowish brown, no dark markings except discoidal 

 area somewhat tlarkened toward apex. Costal area of elytra with five rows 



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