﻿AMERICAN 
  TTPHLOC 
  YBIXAE—dlLLETTE. 
  

  

  765 
  

  

  Dr. 
  Fitch's 
  description 
  of 
  this 
  species 
  is 
  as 
  follows 
  : 
  

  

  Fulvous 
  brown 
  spotted 
  and 
  lined 
  witL 
  whitish: 
  elytra 
  with 
  au 
  abbreviated 
  

   yellowish-white 
  vitta 
  on 
  the 
  outer 
  margin, 
  iuterrnjjted 
  near 
  the 
  middle 
  by 
  an 
  

   obli(|ue 
  black 
  line, 
  and 
  toward 
  the 
  apex 
  by 
  an 
  obliijue 
  sanguineous 
  one; 
  tips 
  duskv 
  

   with 
  whitish 
  nervnres 
  and 
  spots; 
  a 
  whitish 
  medial 
  line 
  coninuHi 
  to 
  the 
  vertex 
  

   thorax 
  and 
  scute] 
  ; 
  beneath 
  black, 
  legs 
  j)al]id. 
  Length 
  0.12 
  (inch). 
  (See 
  Figs. 
  128. 
  129). 
  

  

  On 
  raspberry 
  bushes, 
  gra))evine8 
  and 
  other 
  situations 
  where 
  the 
  foliage 
  is 
  dense, 
  

   often 
  in 
  great 
  numbers. 
  

  

  I 
  have 
  received 
  speciineus 
  of 
  this 
  species 
  as 
  follows: 
  From 
  Mr. 
  Per- 
  

   gaiide, 
  labeled 
  "D. 
  C. 
  on 
  elm:" 
  from 
  Mr. 
  C, 
  A. 
  Hart, 
  takeu 
  at 
  Havana, 
  

   Illinois, 
  on 
  grape, 
  and 
  others 
  taken 
  near 
  Champaign 
  in 
  general 
  collect 
  

   ing: 
  from 
  Professor 
  H. 
  E. 
  Weed, 
  taken 
  at 
  the 
  Mississippi 
  Agricnltural 
  

   College: 
  fiom 
  Mr. 
  E. 
  D. 
  Ball, 
  taken 
  at 
  Ames, 
  Iowa; 
  from 
  Mr. 
  Otto 
  

   Ileidemann, 
  marked 
  "1). 
  C.;" 
  from 
  the 
  U. 
  S. 
  National 
  ^Mnseum., 
  

   marked 
  '-Denver, 
  Colo., 
  on 
  grape, 
  V. 
  Devinny,"' 
  and 
  "Mo.;" 
  from 
  

   Mr. 
  F. 
  F. 
  Crevecteur, 
  Onaga, 
  Kansas, 
  taken 
  among 
  leaves 
  in 
  the 
  

   spring; 
  from 
  Professor 
  J. 
  W. 
  Tou- 
  

   mey, 
  marked 
  "Salt 
  River 
  Valley, 
  

   Ariz., 
  very 
  bad 
  on 
  grapes."' 
  

  

  1 
  have 
  taken 
  this 
  insect 
  in 
  Colo- 
  

   rado 
  oWClemntis 
  1igt(,sticifoli((, 
  on 
  

   Virginia 
  creeper, 
  and 
  on 
  grape. 
  

  

  Variety 
  nifjer, 
  new 
  variety. 
  — 
  I 
  

   have 
  a 
  nnmber 
  of 
  specimens 
  of 
  a 
  

   very 
  dark, 
  almost 
  black, 
  form 
  of 
  

   this 
  species. 
  They 
  have 
  been 
  re- 
  

   ceived 
  from 
  the 
  Illinois 
  State 
  

   Laboratory 
  of 
  Natnral 
  History, 
  

   Cornell 
  University, 
  Mr. 
  E. 
  D. 
  Ball, 
  Ames, 
  Iowa, 
  Mr. 
  Th. 
  Pergande, 
  Dis- 
  

   trict 
  of 
  Columbia, 
  and 
  Mr. 
  F. 
  F. 
  Crevec<pur, 
  Onaga. 
  Kansas, 
  and 
  I 
  have 
  

   also 
  taken 
  this 
  form 
  at 
  Fort 
  Collins, 
  Colorado. 
  

  

  The 
  color 
  above 
  is 
  almost 
  entirely 
  black 
  but 
  the 
  large 
  light 
  colored 
  

   spot 
  on 
  the 
  middle 
  of 
  the 
  costal 
  margin 
  of 
  the 
  elytron 
  is 
  always 
  present, 
  

   and 
  nearly 
  always 
  a 
  yellow 
  spot 
  on 
  the 
  inner 
  basal 
  angle 
  of 
  the 
  elytron, 
  

   and 
  yellow 
  spots 
  or 
  narrow 
  lines 
  in 
  the 
  places 
  of 
  the 
  ordinary 
  light 
  

   lines 
  of 
  the 
  thorax 
  and 
  vertex, 
  and 
  a 
  median 
  yellow 
  line 
  on 
  the 
  scutellum. 
  

  

  Type.—^o. 
  3152, 
  U.S.N.M. 
  

  

  The 
  specimens 
  sent 
  me 
  by 
  Professor 
  Toumey 
  from 
  Salt 
  Hiver 
  N'alley, 
  

   Arizona, 
  are 
  verv 
  light 
  colored. 
  

  

  Figs. 
  128 
  and 
  129.— 
  Elytron 
  and 
  wing 
  of 
  typhlo- 
  

  

  CYBA 
  VCLXERATA. 
  

  

  TYPHLOCYBA 
  DENTATA, 
  new 
  species. 
  

  

  Light 
  Straw 
  color 
  marked 
  with 
  orange 
  yellow 
  above; 
  length 
  3 
  mm. 
  

  

  Face 
  pale 
  yellow, 
  unicolorous, 
  hardly 
  longer 
  than 
  broad, 
  clypeus 
  

   unusually 
  small. 
  Vertex 
  moderately 
  produced, 
  one-half 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  

   pronotum 
  and 
  a 
  little 
  less 
  than 
  one 
  third 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  head 
  is 
  broad, 
  

   concolorous 
  with 
  the 
  face 
  and 
  having 
  two 
  illy 
  defined 
  orange, 
  or 
  lemon 
  

   colored 
  spots 
  which, 
  in 
  one 
  specimen, 
  extend 
  forward 
  over 
  the 
  crest 
  of 
  

  

  