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1840, p. 85, pi. 173, fig. 534 [St. Thomas]; 1850, p. 162.— Fiebcr 

 1844, p. 104, pi. 9, fig. 5.— Guerin-Meneville 1857, p. 409 [Cuba; 

 cotton]. -Walker 1873a, p. 180. 



Tingis decens Stal 1862, p. 324. 



Galeatus gossypii: Stal 1868, p. 93. 



Corythucha decens: Stal 1873, p. 123. — Champion 1897, p. 7 (in part). — 

 Lutz 1929, p. 233 [Pa.]. 



Corythucha gossypii: Stal 1873, p. 123.— Barber 1914, p. 507 [Fla.]; 

 1939, p. 368.— Osborn and Drake 1917b, p. 300 [Grenada; Ichthyo- 

 methia piscipula].— Gibson 1918, pp. 72, 77, 96.— Drake 1919a, p. 

 418; 1926a, p. 87; 1928e, p. 5 [Honduras; soursop]. — Van Duzee 

 1923, p. 140 [Coronados Islands; Atamisquea emarginata]. — Wilson 

 1923, p. 9 [St. Croix].— Gowdy 1925, p. 19 [congo pea; Hibiscus]; 

 1926, p. 35.— Leonard and Mills 1931, pp. 309-321 [Trinidad; 

 N. Mex.; Tex.; Venezuela; Antigua; Guatemala; Costa Rica; 

 Panama; Haiti; Montserrat; Dominican Republic; St. Vincent; 

 Union; orange; grapefruit; Jatropha; Dahlia; Prunus persicus; Citrus 

 medica; Cassia emarginata; Annona diver sifolia]. — Fenton 1934, p. 198 

 [mango; Cajanus indicus; Solanum torvum]. — Monte 1940d, p. 102 

 [Colombia]. — Drake and Hambleton 1945, p. 366 [Salvador; Ecua- 

 dor; Nicaragua; eggplant]; 1946b, p. 123. — Bruner, Scaramuzza and 

 Otero 1945, pp. 14, 15, 29, 45, 72, 84, 114, 132, 152, 155, 188 [Annona 

 squamosa; Arachis hypogaea; Erythrina berteroana; Gossypium; Musa 

 paradisiaca; Phaseolus limensis; Roystonea regia; ^anthoxylum martini- 

 cense]. — Ramos 1946, p. 25 [Mona Island; Capparis flexuosa]. — Gomez - 

 Menor 1956a, p. 112.— Drake and Cobbcn 1960, p. 91, fig. 88d 

 [Aruba; Curacao; Bonaire; St. Eustatius; Saba; St. Martin; Ja- 

 tropha gossypifolia; Jatropha multifida; Capparis cynophallophora; Hi- 

 biscus rosa-sinensis; Hibiscus esculentus; Solanum lycopersicum; Solanum 

 melongena; Lagenaria leucantha]. 



Corythuca gossypii: Van Duzee 1907, p. 18 [Jamaica]. — Jones 1915, p. 

 4 [yautia; Canavalia ensiformis; Ricinus communis]. — Wolcott 1923, p. 

 246 [Puerto Rico; Carica papaya; Annona muricata]. — Blatchley 1926, 

 p. 460. 



Type: Holotype 9, macropterous; "Americae mcridionalis, Insulis 

 Dom."; Kiel Coll. (Copenhagen Mus.). 



Distribution: Jamaica; Haiti; Dominican Republic; Trinidad; Leeward 

 Islands (Antigua; St. Eustatius; Saba; St. Martin; Montserrat); Windward 

 Islands (St. Vincent; Grenada); Virgin Islands (St. Croix; St. Thomas; 

 St. John); Cuba; Puerto Rico; Netherlands Antilles (Bonaire; Aruba; 

 Curacao); Ecuador; Colombia; Venezuela; Panama; Costa Rica; Nica- 

 ragua; El Salvador; Honduras; Guatemala; Mexico (Coronados, San 

 Esteban Islands); Mona Island; U.S. (Tex.; N. Mex.; Fla.; Pa.). 



