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Washington. For the benefit of those interested in the fauna 

 of Phunmers Island, Maryland, it may be said that lo of the 

 species have been collected on the island and 3 others nearby. 



Livia Latreille. 

 L. maculipennis Fitch. — Obtained by sweeping in marshy situations 

 in May and June and by beating pine foliage January to June, also 

 in October. Abundant. 

 L. marginata Patch. — The only specimens seen were collected at 

 Falls Church, Virginia, July 24, by Nathan Ranks. These were 

 living in tufts of sedge, the upper leaves of which were entirely 

 etiolated. 

 L. vernalis Fitch. — Swept in marshy places in Alay and beaten 

 from pine from January to September ; has been taken also in 

 October. Abundant. 



Aphalara Forster. 

 A. calthae Linnaeus. — .\ very abundant species: propagates here 

 apparently exclusively upon Polygonum, commonly on P. lapathi- 

 folium. Has been collected on the food plant from June to Oc- 

 tober and upon pine from. January to April. 

 A. eas new species. (Text figs.) 



Named in honor of Mr. E. A. Schwarz, who has done much 

 careful study of Psyllidae, and published some excellent pa- 

 pers on the family. 



A species of Aphalara, recognizable at a glance by its 

 chunky appearance, and broad milky fore wings with some 

 of the veins darkened distally. This species belongs to the 

 section of Aphalara that has the clypeus rounded truncate and 

 projecting but little beyond plane of face, and from compari- 

 son with descriptions in Crawford's monograph and with speci- 

 mens in the U. S. National Museum appears to be undescribed. 



Length of body, 1.74 to 2.31 mm.; of 

 wing, 2.24 to 2.64 mm. Width of head, .69 

 to .76 mm. ; of thorax. .82 to i mm. 



(leneral color of the body yellowish- 

 green to yellow-brown, with following 

 brown to blackish markings: last 2-3 joints 

 of antenna, underside basal two joints : im- 

 pressions of vertex and pronotum ; a divid- 

 ed semicircular spot on front of praescu- 

 tum : 4 vittae on scutum, those of inner 

 Aphalara eas rt.sxy. Upper pair curved and pointed anteriorly: distal 



figure, forewiiig. Lower figure, .,.,., , ^ i--i i.r 



male genitalia ends of tibial and tarsal jomts; most of 



