FOUR NEW SPECIES OF NORTH AMERICAN CHLOROPID/E 63 



Botanobia ( = Oscinis) catalp2e, new species. 



Female : Glossy black ; einterior margin of frons, antennae, palpi, fore 

 coxae, and all tarsi yellow, more or less tinged with brown. Face brown- 

 ish, and, with cheeks on upper half, silvery white poUinose. Hcilteres 

 yellow, with white knob. Wings vitreous, veins yellow. 



Frons highly glossy, with numerous slight longitudinal striae ; frontal 

 triangle rather narrow and ill-defined, occupying slightly more than one- 

 half the wadth of frons at vertex, reaching almost to anterior margm ; 

 width of frons about equal to that of either eye at anterior margin, dis- 

 tinctly wider at vertex ; surface hairs absent except for some eJong the 

 margins of the frontal triangle ; eyes bare, elongate, the length being 

 about 1 1-3 that of the height ; face concave in profile, keel slight ; 

 cheek about one-third as high as eye, and of almost regular height on its 

 entire length, the lower half glossy brown from near anterior margin, and 

 meeting the concolorous occiput, rather wider than at its anterior portion ; 

 marginal hciirs on cheek weak, peJe ; palpi large, rather spatulate, slightly 

 projecting, almost bare ; antennae of average size, third joint disk-like, 

 arista heiir-like, bare, basaJ joints slightly thickened, length of arista barely 

 more than that of breadth of frons at anterior margin. Mesonotum thickly 

 covered with pale hciirs, each of which is set in a shallow puncture ; scu- 

 tellum flattened on surface, in outline rounded, disk with numerous hairs, 

 except at base, and with distinct punctures, margin with two closely 

 approximated long bristles and two short ones, at the base of each of 

 which there are very slight indications of a swelling on the margin. Legs 

 rather stout, surfaces covered with short, pale hairs. Wing with second 

 costal division twice as long as third ; third and fourth veins slightly diver- 

 gent, third turned up at apex, and ending rather farther from apex of wing 

 than usucJ ; outer cross vein at an acute angle and slightly bent, the upper 

 extremity distinctly nearer to apex of wing than the lower. 



Length, 1.5 mm. 



Type: Cat. No. 15743, U. S. Nat. Mus. 



Locality of type : Germantown, Pennsylvania. 



Locality of other specimens in collection : North Bend, Ohio. 



Reared from larvae found in pods and seeds of Catalpa. 



This species was identified as Oscinis longipes Loew,' which is a 

 slender species with black palpi. The nearest described species to catal- 



'Bull. 10. n. ser.. U. S. Dept. Agr., Div. Ent., p. 74. 1898. 



