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CoRIMELAENA PULICARIA Germ. 
Odontoscelis pulicarius Germar, Zeit. f. Ent., Vol. 1, p. 39. 1839. 
Very common and widely distributed (V.D.). Taken in numerous 
localities in all parts of Illinois, March 4 to October 6; common from 
April to August; nymphs in June, July, and August. Our commonest 
species. 
Dr. S. A. Forbes says of this species*: “The favorite food plants of 
the species seem to be New Jersey tea (Ceanothus americanus), Spanish 
needles, and a small dooryard weed, Veronica peregrina. It is probable 
that the insect breeds principally on these plants. Wheat, blue-grass, 
strawberry, and celery have been injured by them, and they often occur 
on cultivated berries, to which they give a disagreeable taste. The species 
is single-brooded, and is widely distributed east of the Rocky Mountains. 
The adults hibernate and appear in early spring, laying eggs in May and 
June. The young which hatch from these eggs rarely fail to reach ma- 
turity by the early part of July, after which the adult insect is common 
until fall.” 
CoRIMELAENA INTERRUPTA, Sp. nl. 
Male—Black, highly polished. Wing with a broad pale yellow 
margin which is widest near base, and broadly interrupted in middle by a 
blackish brown mark. Antennae yellowish brown. Legs glossy black, 
knees paler, tarsi yellowish. 
Head much broader than long, dorsum with large, deep, subcontigu- 
ous punctures except on two small areas on middle of posterior margin; 
tylus broad apically, not reflexed; lateral margin of head in front of eyes 
slightly and regularly emarginate. Pronotum with a few faint striations 
and numerous very indistinct shallow punctures on disc, the large deep 
punctures confined to a patch on middle of each side, which does not 
extend to margin, and a few in the transverse depression. Scutellum 
highly glossy, the punctures large and rather closely placed laterally on 
basal half, very sparse and smaller on disc, the whole surface with a sub- 
obsolete secondary microscopic punctuation. Venter with large punctures 
’ laterally, almost impunctate on disc; penultimate segment without sharp 
lateral carina. 
Length, 3 mm. 
Type and paratype, Brownsville, Tex., November 23, 1911. Swept 
from pastures in South Texas Garden (C. A. Hart). 
CoRIMELAENA! MINUTISSIMA, Sp. n. 
Male.—Differs in color from the preceding species in having the 
antennae paler, the pronotum subopaque, the tibiae as pale as the tarsi, 
and the pale border of wing complete. 
Head less glossy than in preceding species, the margin in front of 
eye slightly sinuate. Pronotum microscopically shagreened, with closely 
placed shallow punctures on anterior third, the large punctures as in 
preceding species, but extending to lateral margin, and the transverse 
* Twenty-third Rep. State Ent. Ill., p. 116. 1905. 
