Oct., 1978 Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society 87 
Calotingis knighti n. sp. 
Antenne long, slender; first segment about twice the length of the 
second; third segment very long, slender; fourth segment slightly swollen, 
fusiform. Head with the tips of anterior spines projecting out beneath 
the hood. Rostral lamine greatly widened on the metasternum, the ros- 
trum extending slightly beyond the meso-metasternal suture. Hood highly 
elevated, narrow, the sides nearly flat, rounded dorsally. Pronotum dis- 
tinctly tricarinate; median carina moderately elevated, uniseriate, the 
areolz hyaline; lateral carinzee much less elevated, rather widely separated 
from the hood; paranota slightly higher than the hood, the anterior and 
posterior margins strongly turned in and leaving an opening at the middle, 
the anterior margin touching the hood and the posterior margin extending 
over the lateral carina; apex of triangular process reticulate. Legs rather 
slender. Elytra with the outer margins rounded, costal area biseriate to 
beyond the middle and with a few extra areolz for a short distance towards 
the apex, the areole quite large; subcostal area mostly triseriate, the 
areolz small. Claspers strongly curved in the male. Wings longer than 
the abdomen. Length, 2.45 mm.; width, 1.2 mm. 
Color.—General color yellowish white; body beneath black. Distal seg- 
ment of antenne and tarsi black. Hood and paranota mostly light fuscous, 
the disc of pronotum blackish. Elytra with the areole hyaline, a brown 
or light fuscous spot at the base of the discoidal area. 
One male and three females, taken on Malvaviscus Drum- 
mond T., at Helotes, Texas, July 1, 1917, by Dr. H. H. Knight. 
The insect is not very closely allied to any American tingid. 
_ Leptoypha minor McAtee. This insect was described from 
two specimens taken in Siskiyou County, California. Numerous 
specimens are at hand from Huachuca Mts., Arizona, collected by 
Ecote. G. Barber, July v5. 
Leptoypha costata Parshley. Parshley, Heidemann and Mc- 
Atee list this species from Maryland, Washington (D. C.) and 
Virginia. Numerous specimens are at hand from the above 
localities, also from Colorado, Arkansas and Illinois. 
Leptoypha elliptica McAtee. Numerous specimens aré before 
me from Victoria, Texas, and Stone Mt., Georgia, and one spec- 
imen from Jacksonville, Florida. The Texas specimens bear the 
food plant label “swamp bush” and Dr. Knight collected the 
Georgia specimens on J/ex sp. 
Leptoypha mutica Say. McAtee gives the distribution of this 
common species as Indiana, Ohio, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Ontario, 
New Jersey, Tennessee, Texas, and states as follows: “. . . very 
