Acanalonia conica SAY 

 (1830 Jr. Acad. Phila., vi, p. 238, Amphiscepa) 



Recorded from Va., N. C., Miss., La., Ohio, Ky., Ind., 

 111., Mo., Ark. and Texas. 



Fairly common in Mississippi, and distinguished at once 

 by its conical vertex. 



Body and elytra pale green in color. Vertex somewhat longer than 

 the pronotum, angularly produced, anterior margin separated from the 

 frons by a sharp edge; surface of the vertex flat, lightly granulated 

 and faintly carinated in the middle. Frons broader than long, smooth, 

 a short faint median carina at the tip, lateral margins parallel, form- 

 ing outwards an obtusely-angled corner. Antennae yellow, pronotum 

 with margin slightly emarginate, the surface faintly granulated or 

 wrinkled, two small impressions on disc. Scutellum faintly tricar- 

 inate, the median carina very obscure, two dark round spots posteriorly 

 placed. Elytra long-oval, one and a third times as long as broad, 

 rounded behind, apical margin with rusty-brown points; costal margin 

 strongly curved, the inner vein of the outer ulnar vein forked; veins 

 stand out forming a delicate net work. Wings milk-white. Legs pale 

 green with the tips of the femoral spines black. 



Length of body 6-8 mm.; length to tip of elytra 9-12 mm. 



Redescribed from numerous specimens taken at Agr. 

 College, Miss., Oct. 1, 1915, by E. H. Dickey, on cowpeas; 

 Brookhaven, Miss., Sept. 1913, K. W. Holloway; Goodman, 

 Miss., 1915, G. D. Cowsert; and Agr. College, Miss., June 

 21, 1920, on grapes, H. L. Dozier. Several were collected by 

 the writer at New Orleans, La., July 23, 1922. Three spec- 

 imens, collected by George G. Ainslie at Knoxville, Tenn., 

 July 8, 1919, also have been available for study. 



Host plants Grape, cowpeas, and cotton. Swezy records 

 also the osage orange, lilac, corn, ragweed, catnip, milk- 

 weed and sugar beet as food plants. Murtfeldt gives notes 

 on life-history in U. S. Dept. of Agr. Ent. bulletin XIII, 

 page 61, 1887. 



SUBFAMILY FLATINAE (SPIN.) 



(Spinola, Ann. Soc., Ent. Fr., viii, pp. 204, 387, 1839, 



Flatoides) 



Represented in North America by six genera, three of 

 which, however, are known only from California and Ari- 

 zona and in all probability do not occur in our territory. 



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