78 Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society Vol. XII 



A FEW NOTES CHIEFLY ON THE NAMES OF NEARCTIC 



TINGID^. 



By W. L. McAtee, Washington, D. C. 



Acalypta grisea Heidemann. Acalypta grisea Heidemann, 

 Otto. Two new species of lace-bugs (Heteroptera; Tingidae). 

 Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, i8, 

 No. 4, December, 1916 (June 11, 1917), pp. 217-9, Pl-i?- Ac- 

 cording to Mr. J. R. de la Torre Bueno, this is a synonym of his 

 A. lillianis. This is a fault for which I must own responsibility. 

 I prepared Mr. Heidemann's article for the press, but had never 

 seen A. lillianis and its publication therefore did not register 

 very deeply on my memory. 



Corythucha marmorata Uhler. The food plants of this species 

 in the vicinity of Washington, D. C, are various members of the 

 genus Aster. 



Corythucha crataegi Morrill. Corythuca arcuata cratcegi 

 subsp. nov. Morrill, August, W. Notes on the Immature Stages 

 of some Tingitids of the Genus Corythttca, Psyche 10, pp. 132- 

 133, August, 1903. 



In their paper "The Tingitoidea of Ohio,"* Osborn, H. and 

 Drake, Carl J., describe the adult of this form, noting that they 

 find it a distinct species. They call it Corythucha cratcegi sp. 

 nov., but it is clear that Morrill must be the authority for this 

 name since he describes the €igg of cratcegi and calls attention to 

 its distinctness from that of arcuata. Article 27b of the Inter- 

 national Rules of Zoological Nomenclature asserts that the law 

 of priority obtains "When any stage in the life history is named 

 before the adult." 



Corythucha cratcegi has been collected in the vicinity of Wash- 

 ington, D. C, upon the following plants: Cratcegus, Cephalan- 

 thus, and Amelanchier. 



Corythucha incurvata Uhler. C. heteromelei Heidemann ms. 

 is a synonym. 



Corythucha pallida Osborn and Drake. Corythucha pallida 

 O. & D., op. cit., pp. 230-231. This species was described from 



* Ohio State Univ. Bulletin, 20, No. 35, June, 1916, pp. 229-230. 



