LACEBUG GENUS ACALYPTA — DRAKE AND LATTIN 335 



9. Form elongate-ovate; antenna rather short, 0.79 mm. long, segment III twice 



the length of IV (pi. 14) A. vandykei 



Form obovate; antenna 0.94 mm. long, segment III more than two and a half 

 times as long as IV (40:15) (pi. 15) A. vanduzeei 



Acalypta duryi Drake 



Plate 3 



Fenestrella ovata Osborn and Drake 1916a, p. 223, fig. 3; 1917, p. 155, pi. 8, fig. 



d.— Van Duzee 1917, p. 212. 

 Drakella [ovata]: Bergroth 1922, p. 152. 

 Drakella ovata: Blatchley 1926, p. 482, fig. 112. 

 Acalypta ovata: Drake 1928b, p. 3, fig. l,a. 

 Acabjpla duryi Drake 1930, p. 268.— Hurd 1946, p. 463.— Drake and Ruhoff 



1959, p. 138. 



Brachypterous form. — Ovate, brown or grayish brown to black- 

 ish fuscous; antennae dark brown or fuscous with fourth segment 

 black and subclavate; body beneath blackish fuscous; legs with femora 

 fuscous, the tibiae and tarsi usually brown. Antennal measurements: 

 segment I, 0.10 mm.; II, 0.09 mm.; Ill, 0.56 mm.; IV, 0.20 mm. 

 Pronotum unicarinate, median carina slowly tapering posteriorly, 

 with one row of three to five areolae behind hood, without areolae 

 behind pronotal disc; paranotum slightly variable in areolation, 

 angulate at anterolateral corner, usually three areolae deep in front 

 and two opposite humeral angle. Costal area with one complete row 

 of areolae, with a variable number of areolae in partial second row at 

 base and apex, uniseriate in middle portion. Division of elytron as 

 shown in illustration (pi. 3). Length 2.00-2.50 mm., width (elytra) 

 1.25-1.60 mm. Macropterous form unknown. 



HoLOTYPE. — Brachypterous 9, Cincinnati, Ohio, in Ohio State 

 University, Columbus, Ohio. 



Distribution. — Ohio (Cincinnati), Tennessee (Great Smoky Mts., 

 Sevier Co.), and North Carohna (Great Smoky Mts., Newfound Gap, 

 elevation 5,000-5,200 ft.). Feeds and breeds on mosses. A brachyp- 

 terous 9 from the Great Smoky Mts., Tenn., is illustrated. 



Acalypta saundersi Downes 



Plate 4 



Drakella saundersi Downes 1927b, p. 60. 



Acalypta saundersi: Drake 1928b, p. 4, fig. l,b; 1930, p. 268.— Hurd 1946, p. 

 463.— Drake and Ruhoff 1959, p. 138. 



Brachypterous form. — Small, ovate or obovate, sometimes more 

 elongate-ovate, reddish brown to dark fuscous; body beneath flavous 

 to dark fuscous. Legs brownish with femora broadly banded at middle 

 with dark fuscous. Antenna with first, second, and third segments 



