A NEW GARDEN SMYNTHURID. 

 Smynthurus albamaculata n. sp. 



By F. L. Harvey. 



Body dull blue-black with steel blue reflections in direct light, 

 obscurely marked with numerous small whitish blotches of 

 variable shape and size, arranged in poorly defined transverse 

 bands, giving a marbled appearance. Head, terminal segments 

 of the body, antennae, legs and elater pale purple. Underside 

 of body pale brownish. Sides of head and the vertex yellowish 

 brown. Eye patches black, bordered on the inner margin by 

 a whitish band which is constricted in the middle giving the 

 appearance of two spots. Antennae more than half as long as 

 the body. Ratio of segments i :2^2 :3:5- The basal joint widest, 

 globular and whitish. Base of the second segment light. Term- 

 inal segment composed of nine joints. (In young specimens 

 apparently eight jointed by the coalescence of the two terminal). 

 Antennae, legs, elater and body clothed with hairs. Body 

 widest behind, abruptly narrowing into the terminal segments. 

 Anal tubercles prominent. Claws medium size. The larger, 

 .031 m. m. with a single tooth on the inner edge near the end. 

 Short claw, .017 mm. plain, broadest in the middle. Two 

 tenent hairs about the length of the longer claw and extending 

 about two-thirds the length of the claw. Furcula short and 

 stout. Ratio to body 4:7. Ratio of parts of furcula: manubrium 

 4, dentes 4, mucrones 1. Dentes with about ten bristles on the 

 lower edge. Mucrones curved near the base, narrow lanceolate 

 and plain. Length of insect .8 to 1.4m m. 



Habitat: — Found abundantly during May and June in 

 gardens. Doing much damage to early garden plants. 

 Attacks radishes, beans, cucumbers, squashes, etc., eating 

 numerous holes in the epidermis of the leaves and sucking the 



