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Holotype: $, July 22, 1915, HoUister, Missouri, (H. H. 

 Knight) ; author's collection. 

 Allotype : taken with the male. 



Paratypes: 2$, 18 9 , topotypic. ^ July 22, Ramapo (Wm. T. 

 Davis), and $ July 27, Lake George (A. K. Fisher), New York. 

 $ July 16, Southbridge; $ Aug. 3, Sharon; 2 $ Aug. 8, Chester; 

 9 Aug. II, Fall River; $ 9 Aug. 31, Rutland; $ Aug. 7, Williams- 

 burg, all in Massachusetts, (C. W. Johnson). $ July 10, Portland 

 (A. E. Moss), and $ Aug. 10, Portland (B. H. Walden), in Con- 

 necticut. 9 July, Hewitt, and 9 July, Newfoundland, New Jersey 

 (Wm. T. Davis). 9 Sept. 6, Red Rock, Luzerne Co., Pennsylvania 

 (Wm. T. Davis). $ July 25, Glencarlyn, and 9 July 25, Paeonian 

 Springs, Virginia (Nathan Banks). 



Lopidea staphyleae new species. (Fig. 4.) 



Resembling robiniac in general appearance but slightly larg- 

 er and not so black on the dorsum ; the male genital claspers 

 distinctive of the species (fig. 4). The claspers of this species 

 are not typical of the genus Lopidea, but until more work is 

 done on the genitalia in the various genera it does not seem 

 wise to erect new ones. 



$ . Length 6.5 mm., width 2.05 mm. Orange yellow, fuscous on 

 the calli, narrowly at the base of the pronotum, scutellum, apical two- 

 thirds of the clavus, inner half of the corium, and membrane; anten- 

 nae, tylus, two bars on the front, base of the head, rostrum, and legs, 

 black; the fuscous shading on the dorsum much paler than in robiniac; 

 genital claspers distinctive of the species (fig. 4). 



Antennae: segment L length .71 mm.; width .15 mm.; II, 2.48 mm., 

 width .10 mm., tapering slightly smaller toward tlie apex; lU, 1.82 

 mm., slender and almost linear; IV, .52 mm. 



9 . Length 6.8 mm., width 2.2 mm. Similar to the male in structure 

 and coloration, but usually slightly larger. Sometimes very similar 

 in size and coloration to the female of conftucns; but the length of 

 the first antennal segment in conflucns is shorter than the width of the 

 vertex, while in staphyleae its length is as great as, or slightly longer 

 than, the width of the vertex. 



Holotype: $ , July 29, 1916, Batavia, New York (H. H. 

 Knight) ; author's collection. 

 Allotype : July 30, topotypic. 



Paraiypes: 2$ S9 J"ly 18, 9 July 20, 9 July 21, all reared; 12$ 

 33 9 J"ly 29, 4 5 6 9 July 30, 1916, $ July 23, 1913, Batavia, New 



