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ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 



[Dec. '17 



The species was taken by the writer only on the black wil- 

 low (Salix nigra), and is apparently very scarce. The writer 

 puzzled over the females for two years before the male was 

 taken and the status of the species determined. The speci- 

 mens from Honeoye Falls were taken on black willows found 

 growing along the banks of a small stream that ran through 

 an open pasture. 



Holotype : $ , June 27, 1916, Honeoye Falls, New York, 

 (H. H. Knight) ; author's collection. 



Allotype : taken with the type. 



Paratypes: 2$ 59, topotypic. 9 June 30, 1914, Batavia, New- 

 York, (H. H. Knight). 29 June 22, 1914. Rochester Junction, New 

 York, (M. D. Leonard). 



Lopidea davisi new species (Fig. 3). 



Short and robust, about the size of media but more robust; 

 very similar to confluens in coloration. 



$ . Length, 5.5 mm.; width, 2.0 mm. Yellowish orange to reddish: 

 antennae, legs, front of the head and rostrum, black: calli, base of the 

 pronotum. scutellum, clavus, inner half of the corium and the mem- 

 brane, fuscous; species distinguished by the form of the male genital 

 claspers (fig. 3). 



9 . Ver}^ similar to the male only more robust. 



This species is named in honor of Mr. Wm. T. Davis, who 



Fig. 3. Fig. 4 



Fig. T,. — Lopidea davisi, male genital clas- Fig. a,.— Lopidea staphyleae, male genital 



pers-a right clasper, internal lateral aspect. claspers— a right clasper, dorsal aspect. 



b left clasper, dorsal aspect. b left clasper, caudal aspect. 



is noted for his wide interest in collecting, he having taken 

 the first specimens of this species seen by the writer. 



