156 CONNECTICUT GEOL. AND NAT. HIST. SURVEY. [Bull. 



green, pronotum with two central black spots at base, a small one 

 and a curved line behind each eye. Elytra greenish hyaline, 

 smoky at tips, nervures pale and a few cells spotted with fuscous. 

 Length 3 mm. 



A common form on catnip, sage and other Labiates. An Euro- 

 pean species, now known to occur in the United States both on 

 Atlantic and Pacific coasts. 



Granby, 10 Sept., 1909 (W. E. B.) (on sage). 

 T. vanduzei (Gillette). 



Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xx, 748, 1898. 



Vertex produced, scarcely angled, black in color. Pronotum 

 and scutellum black, elytra milky white, smoky at tips, often a dark 

 area along middle of costa. Length 3.75 mm. 



Occurs on ferns in New England in July and perhaps August. 



Cromwell, 18 July, 1921 (B. H. W.), on ferns. 

 T. flavoscuta (Gillette). (Fig. 14, 5.) 



Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xx, 749, 1898. 



Vertex produced, bluntly rounded at apex. General color 

 smoky above, yellow beneath. Face, anterior margin of vertex, 

 median spot on posterior portion of pronotum, scutellum, costal 

 and inner margins of elytra yellow. Length 3 mm. 



On ferns in wooded areas during July and August. 



Bridgeport, 20 Sept., 1920 (B. H. W.) ; East Haven, 21 July, 1920 

 (B. H. VV.) ; Guilford, 13 July, 1920 (B. H. W.) ; Huntington, 9 July, 

 1920 (B. H. W.) ; New Haven, 11 July, 1920 (B. H. W.), on ferns; Corn- 

 wall, 5 June, 1921 (B. H. W.). 



T. nigra (Osborn). 



Kept. N. Y. St Ent., xx, 543, 1905. 



Vertex bluntly rounded, more robust than others of the group, 

 black above anterior margin of vertex and costal margin, broadly 

 yellow just before apex, which is smoky with nervures pale. 

 Length 3.75 mm. 



Taken only in shaded areas in woodland from ferns in cool 

 moist habitats during July and August. 



Bridgeport, 20 Sept., 1920 (B. H. W.) ; Guilford, 13 July, 1920 

 (B. H. W.) ; Hamden, 20 June, 1920 (B. H. W.) ; New Haven, 11 July, 

 1920 (B. H. W.) ; Portland, 25 July, 1920 (B. H. W.) ; Huntington, 9 July, 

 1920 (B. H. W.). 

 *T. inscripta Sanders and DeLong. 



Proc. Ent Soc. Wash., 24, 99, 1922. 



Milky white washed with yellow, elytra with a large central area 

 on apical cross veins dark brown, from which brown lines radiate 

 along veins to apex, costa and corium. Elytra with outer apical 

 margin rounded, then concavely truncate toward inner margin. 

 Female last ventral segment four times as long as preceding, 

 posterior margin roundingly excavated one-third the distance to 

 the base, either side of a broad, central rounded tooth one-third 



