AKT. IS JASSID GENUS TYPHLOCYBA McATEE 19 



Ilolotype. — Male and allotype female, Colorado Springs, Colo.; 

 July 19, 1901; paratype female. Trindad, Colo., July 13, 1899 /T.. 

 D. Ball). 



TYPHLOCYBA FLAVOMARGINATA, var. SCORTA, new variety 



Male. — -General color pale yellow; teamen anterior to cross>eins 

 washed with pinkish or vinaceous red. the costa and apical cells 

 flavescent. 



Female. — Similar to male, the tegmina without j^elowish colora- 

 tion and more exclusively covered with the reddish tinge; apical 

 cells nearly hyaline. 



Holotype. — Male and allotype female, Altus, Utah, July 30, 1911; 

 paratype male and female Salt Lake City, Utah, July 13, 1908 

 (E. D.Bali). 



TYPHLOCYBA TUNICARUBRA Gillette 



Tijphloruba tiinicdruhra Gillette, C. P.. American Tyiililocybinae, Proo. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus.. vol. 20. IS'.KS. pp. -.".2-7.1::; [Midi. Aut. College.] 



3/ale. — Head and thorax yellow, the scutellum somewhat dusliy 

 posteriorly; tegmina from all but extreme base nearly to crossveins 

 scarlet when fully colored, apical cells yellowish hyaline the veins 

 deeper yellow ; face yellow, other underparts whitish. Hypopygium : 

 with tiie side of 9th segment widened apicalh\ both the upper and 

 lower angles squarish, prominent. Outer claspers, turgid projui- 

 nent at bend, the upcurved terminal third much narowed, roun<led 

 apically; inner claspers of the simpl}^ curved type, the apices directed 

 outwardly, and acute. Aedeagus somewhat longer than connective, 

 the basal two-thirds a simple shaft (as seen from above) Vv-hich 

 expands distally, and is bified into two laterally and upwardly 

 directed, inflated, rami ; from the inner side of apex of each arises 

 an inwardly, downwardly and posteriorly directed acuminate 

 process, which crosses its fellow near apex (fig. 43-44). 



Female. — Coloration as in male; eighth sternite long, evenly con- 

 vex posteriorly; apparent slight emargination medialy in some speci- 

 mens probably caused by pressure of ovipositor. 



Length, 3.6-4 mm. 



Records: Conesus Lake, N. Y., July 16, 1916, H. H. Knight (Ball, 

 Kans. LTniv.) ; Holotype, female, Agr. College, Mich., July 15, 1S91 

 (U.S.N.M.) ; Lake Geneva, Wis., July 21, 1918, on bur oak; Ames, 

 Iowa, July 26, 1919, E. D. Ball (Ball) ; Douglas County, Kans., 

 August, 1923, W. Robinson (Kans. Univ.). 



flolotype.— Cat. No. 3442, U.S.N.M. 



TYPHLOCYBA LANCIFER, new species 



Male. — Head and thorax pale yellow, tegmina to crossveins cad- 

 mium to light orange yellow; apical cells whitish hyaline; under- 



