1916] Parshley — On Some Tingidoe from New England 163 



As matters are, however, I prefer to consider it a form for which 

 I propose the name arctica. 



The male is 12 mm. in length, face black with light yellowish 

 pile, pile on vertex dull yellow, antennae dark brown, aristae 

 brown. Thorax black with black pile, except the post-alar 

 callosities which are yellow with yellow pile, pleura black with 

 black pile, scutellum yellow, with yellow pile. Abdomen black, 

 the second and third segments largely yellow with only a dorsal 

 line of black, all the pile of the abdomen yellow. Legs black, 

 tarsi dark brown. Clouding on the wings slight. 



The female is similar to the male. The pile on the front is 

 yellowish and on the entire thorax (except the post-alar callosities) 

 a dull yellow more or less mixed with black, when viewed from 

 above the appearance is black. The yellow markings on the 

 third segment are much smaller or obsolete and the pile on the 

 entire abdomen noticeably thicker and a darker yellow. This 

 species resembles the species of the Bomhus horealis group. 



One male and nine females. Rama "N. of three line," 1898 

 (J. D. Sornborger); Rama, 1898, 1899 (A. Stecker and J. D. Sorn- 

 borger); Nain (J. D. Sornborger); Nain, August 18, 1908 (Owen 

 Bryant). Holotype, allotype and six paratypes in the IVIuseum 

 of Comparative Zoology, and two paratypes in the author's 

 collection. 



ON SOME TINGID.E FROM NEW ENGLAND. 



By H. M. Parshley, 

 Bussey Institution, Harvard University. 



In working on the New England Tingidse I have come across 

 three apparently undescribed forms, which are characterized here- 

 with. The first belongs to the genus DicUjonota, not hitherto repre- 

 sented in the American fauna, of which twenty species and one 

 variety are recognized in the Palaearctic region. Some of the 

 species live on the broom and furze, and the naturalization of 

 these plants along our eastern coast may possibly account for the 

 presence of the insect in question, although D. tricornis Schrank 

 is not itself recorded as dependent on the plants mentioned. 



