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but more distinct black line on lower margin of apical half ; cuneus 

 strongly yellowish, sometimes darker on its disk ; membrane dark 

 fuscous, veins yellowish, narrowly pale bordering veins, a clear 

 spot by tip of cuneus. 



Female: Length 4.2 mm., width 1.9 mm.; more ovate than the 

 male but very similar in coloration ; sometimes more broadly pale 

 than male. 



Holotype: Male, 26 July, 1916, Ithaca, N. Y. (H. H. Knight) ; author's 

 collection. Allotype : same data as the type. Paratypes : Male taken with 

 types. District of Columbia — Females (2), 5 Sept., 1890, Washington 

 (O. Heidemann). Ohio — Male, 17 Aug., Apple Grove; male, 23 Aug., 

 1915, Crown City (C. J. Drake). Females (2), 24 Aug., 1916, Springfield 

 (W. S. Adkins). Virginia — Male and females (3), 10 Aug., 1906, Great 

 Falls (O. Heidemann). 



P. albatus (Van Duzee). 



Pomona Jour. Ent. Zool., vii, 116, 1915. 



Length 4.2 mm., width 1.4 mm. ; whitish, tylus, basal segment of 

 antennae, more or less broadly on lateral margins of pronotal disk, 

 inner half of clavus, subapical spot on corium or in darker speci- 

 mens covering the apical half, sternum, and venter, black; calli 

 and antennal segment ii frequently yellowish; membrane pale, a 

 distinct fuscous ray along margin just beyond clear spot at tip of 

 cuneus; hind femora with group of black spots on apical half, 

 sometimes with a subdorsal row of spots extending upon basal 

 half ; tibiae with small and sometimes indistinct spots at base of 

 spines ; female more broadly pale than the male. 



Food plant: Sycamore (Platanus occidentalis) . 



Guilford, 13 July, 1920 (B. H. W.) ; Orange, 22 June, 1920 (P. Garman). 



*P. albatus var. vittiscutis Knight, new variety. 



Apparently a color variety of albatus although the writer has 

 taken this form only on butternut (Juglans cinerea). 



Color pattern very similar to albatus but having the apical half 

 of cuneus and median line of scutellum black. 



Holotype: Male, 30 June, 1920, Ithaca, N. Y. (H. H. Knight) ; author's 

 collection. Paratypes: Males (3) and female, taken with types; male, 2^ 

 June, 1920, topotypic. Connecticut — Female, 22 June, 1920, Orange 

 (P. Garman). Quebec — Male, 10 July, 1920, Montreal (G. A. Moore). 



*P. albatus var. similis Knight, new variety. 



Suggestive of albatus but distinguished by the black base of 

 antennal segment ii, black juga and lora, two rows of spots on 

 hind femora, and more prominent black spots on tibiae. This 

 form may prove to be a good species but in the absence of more 

 material and better characters, it seems best to place it as a variety 

 of albatus. 



Female: Length 3.5 mm., width 1.5 mm.; ovate, robust, white 

 and marked with black. Head : Width .63 mm., vertex .33 mm. ; 

 yellowish white, tylus and extending upon median line of front, 



