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ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 



[Dec, '17 



The figures of the male genital claspers are all drawn to 

 the same scale. 



Lopidea heidemanni new species. (Fig. 1.) 



In general appearance, most closely resembling media, but 

 larger and usually with more fuscous ; certain color phases of 

 the female sometimes difficult to distinguish from the females 

 of media. 



Fig. I. 

 Fig. I. — Lopidea heidematini, male genital 

 claspers — a right clasper, dorsal aspect. 

 b right clasper, caudal aspect. 

 c left clasper, ventral aspect. 

 d left clasper, dorsal aspect. 



Fig. 2. 

 Fig. 2. — Lopidea salicis. male genital clas- 

 pers— a right clasper, dorsal aspect. 

 b right clasper, caudal aspect. 

 c left clasper, ventral aspect 

 d left clasper, dorsal aspect. 



(5 . Length 6.7 mm., width, 2.14 mm. Dark red, having more fuscous 

 on the pronotum and scutellum than in media; larger and more elon- 

 gate than media, the hemelytra always showing a strong tendency to 

 shrivel and wrinkle longitudinally. The species may always be dis- 

 tinguished by the form of the male genital claspers (fig. i); the right 

 clasper showing a close relationship to cnneata and salicis. 



5. Length, 6.2 mm.; width, 2.08 mm. Slightly more robust than the 

 male, otherwise very similar; the costal margins of the hemelytra 

 frequently pale as in media: in certain color phases, dull orange red 

 with fuscous. 



Near Batavia. New York, the species was found breeding 

 on elm (Uhnus), the nymphs feeding and maturing on the 

 tender terminal growth, usually of young trees. At Four Mile, 

 New York, nymphs were taken on Yarrow (Achillea viille- 



