abundant at Helena, July 13, 1920. Both of these have 

 also been taken by the writer at Columbia, So. Car., Aug. 

 1916; and at Durant, Miss., July 14, 1921, and by Geo- G. 



Fig. 13 Phylloscelis atra var. albovenosa Melichar, enlarged. 



(Original) 



Ainslie at Nashville, Aug. 1921, Knoxville, Sept. 14, 1916, 

 and Union City, Tenn., Aug. 29, 1919. The writer has also 

 taken this species and its variety. in Florida and at Colum- 

 bia, So. Car., Aug. 18, 1919. 



Phylloscelis pallescens GERMAR 

 (1839 Zeit. fur. Ent, i, p. 192). 



Recorded from Mass., N. Y., N. J., Pa., N. C., Fla., la., 

 Ark. and Texas. 



Grayish-yellow, thickly and finely dotted with black. Frons with 

 three distinct, parallel longitudinal carinae which are thickly and 

 finely spotted; clypeus with black transverse-oblique streaks. Eyes 

 gray, with dark transverse bands. Elytra grayish, nearly translucent, 

 with numerous, branched, longitudinal veins which are prominent 

 and flecked with black and white. Wings lacking. Entire underside 

 black finely dotted with white. Legs black, the leaf-like expanded 

 fore femora black, dotted with white, a large white marginal area 

 in the middle of the upper and lower edges and on the tip; front 

 tibiae black at base, dotted with white, white in the middle, the tip 

 black. The middle and hind legs black, dotted with white, the disc of 

 the middle tibiae and the base of the hind tarsi whitish. 



Length to tip of brachypterous elytra 4 1-2 mm.; width 2.75 mm. 



A single specimen was taken by the writer while sweep- 



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