82 Journal New York Entomological Society. 1 VoL xxvil 



Aknisus multispinus Ashmead. 



Hoplinus multispinus Ashmead, W. H. Hemipterological Contributions (No. 



i), Entomologica Americana, Vol. 3, No. 8, Nov., 1887, p. 155 [Florida]. 

 Jalysus perclavatus Van Duzee, E. P. Observations on some Hemiptera taken 



in Florida in the spring of 1908. Bui. Buffalo Soc. Nat. Sci., Vol. 9, No. 



2, 1909, pp. 163-4. [Crescent City, Sanford, Tampa and St. Petersburg.] 



Nomenclatorial and critical notes on Hemiptera, Can. Ent., Vol. 46, No. 



11, Nov., 1914, pp. 380-381. 

 Jalysus (Hoplinus) multispinosiis Barber, H. G. Descriptions of some new 



Hemiptera-Heteroptera. Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc, Vol. 19, No. 1, March, 



191 1, p. 24. 

 Hoplinus (?) multispinus Van Duzee, E. C. Check List of the Hemiptera 



... of America, North of Mexico, 1916, p. 17, Catalogue, id., 1917, p. 144. 



In addition to the characters mentioned in the keys it is necessary 

 only to state that this insect is pale stramineous with eyes, terminal 

 antennal segments, tips of tibise and tarsi darker, sometimes black. 

 Rarely specimens have irregular dark spots on the thorax. Length 

 5-6 mm. 



Specimens examined are from: 



Duval Co., Florida, W. H. Ashmead (type). 

 Langdon, Mo., Aug. 28, 1901, H. G. Barber. 

 Clarendon Siding, Kans., July 26, 1891. 

 Horace, Kans., July 28, 1891. 



Wades, Tex., May 22, E. A. Schwarz ; Dallas, Tex., Sept. 8, 



1906, Sept. 23, 1911; Brewster Co., Tex., June 13-17, 1908. 



San Antonio, Tex., H. Osborn. All specimens to this point 



in National Collection. 

 St. Petersburg, Fla., April 28, 1908, E. P. Van Duzee. Para- 

 type of Jalysus perclavatus in collection of E. P. Van Duzee. 

 Citations in the synonymy indicate that the systematic* position of 

 this species has been the subject of controversy. The original de- 

 scription was poor and the original generic reference to Hoplinus 

 Stal inexcusable. At the same time it must be said that Stal's de- 

 scription of Hoplinus 1 is very generalized and by no means fits the 

 insect he makes the genotype, namely Neides spinosissimus Signoret. 2 

 The latter is described as having a large number of spines on head, 



1 Stal, C, Enumeratio Hemipterorum, 4, 1874, p. 127. 



2 Signoret, V., Revision des Hemipteres du Chile, Ann. Soc. Ent. de 

 France, 4th Ser., Vol. 3, 1863, p. 555. 



