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



Lepidopsallus new genus. 



Form short ovate, body clothed with closely appressed scale-like 

 pubescence, and interspersed with more erect simple pubescent 

 hairs ; head broad, antennal segment ii, in length, not equal to 

 width of head ; tibiae strongly spinose ; claws and pseudarolia as 

 shown in figure 49: 3. Genotype: (Sthenarus) rubidus Uhler. 



Differs from the genotype, Europiella stigmosa (Uhler), chiefly 

 by shape of head, shortness of antennal segment ii, in type of 

 pubescence, and in general by the more ovate and robust form. 



Key to Species. 



1. Rostrum extending beyond posterior coxae 2 



Rostrum not extending beyond posterior coxae 3 



2. Antennal segments i and ii pale yellowish; sides of venter without 



scale-like pubescence claricornis n. sp. 



Antennal segment i black, base of segment ii dusky ; sides of venter 

 and pleura bearing scale-like pubescence rostratus n. sp. 



3. Antennal segment ii scarcely longer than length of pronotum 4 



Antennal segment ii, in length, equal to length of pronotum plus 



the dorsal width of an eye ; small, length 2.y mm olseni n, sp. 



4. Combined length of antennal segments iii and iv greater than length 



of segment ii ; antennal segment ii thickened in both sexes, 

 cylindrical and equal to thickness of segment i; black, length 



2.6 mm minusculus n. sp. 



Combined length of antennal segments iii and iv less than or 

 scarcely equal to length of segment ii ; antennal segment ii more 

 slender in female, distinctly thinner on basal half and not equal 

 to thickness of segment i; color black with reddish, embolium 



and cuneus strongly reddish rubidus 



(a) Color uniformly black, antennal segment ii always black; 

 scale-like pubescence silvery white variety atricolor n. var. 



L. rostratus Knight, new species. 



Piceous black; antennal segment ii yellowish, dusky at base; 

 rostrum extending to base of ovipositor. 



Female: Length 2.8mm., width 1.31mm. Head: Width 

 .74 mm., vertex .34 mm. ; front and vertex more nearly flat and 

 tylus more produced than in claricornis; black pubescent and inter- 

 mixed with pale silvery scale-like hairs. Rostrum, length 1.47 mm., 

 extending posteriorly as far as base of ovipositor, piceous. 



Antennae: Segment i, length .17mm., black; ii, .70mm., 

 slender, slighdy thickened toward apex, yellowish, dusky at base ; 

 iii, .44 mm., pale fuscous ; iv, .34 mm., fuscous. 



Pronotum: Length .48mm., width at base 1.06 mm. ; rather 

 thickly clothed with silvery, scale-like pubescence, and intermixed 

 with black simple pubescence ; propleura thickly covered with scale- 

 like hairs. Scutellum with pubescence and coloration similar to 

 disk of pronotum. Sternum, pleura, and ostiolar peritreme, 

 uniformly black ; episterna and pleura bearing scale-like hairs. 



Hemelytra : Embolar margins moderately arcuate ; uniformly 

 piceous black; clothed with closely appressed, silvery scale-like 



