502 



CONNECTICUT GEOL. AND NAT. HIST. SURVEY. 



[Bull. 



I. stalii Reuter. 



Ofv. Kongl. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Forh., xxxii, No. g, 86, 1876. 



Length 5.5 mm., width 1.8 mm. ; pale greenish white; dorsum 

 bearing patches of black scale-like hairs, forming a prominent spot 

 behind each callus, one at base of scutellum, and one at inner angle 

 of cuneus. 



Occurs on Cocklebur and other weeds. 



New York. 



Lopidea Uhler. 



L. confluens (Say). 



Capsus confluenta Say, Heter. N. Harm., 23, 1832; Compl. Writ., i, 341, 

 1859. 



Ent. News, xxix, 211, 1918. 



Male: Length 6.3mm., width 2.1 mm.; yellowish orange and 

 tinged with reddish, broadly each side of commissure, membrane. 



confluent 



Fig. 67. Lopidea confluens 

 Say, — male genital claspers, (a) 

 left clasper, dorsal aspect, (b) 

 right clasper, internal lateral 

 aspect. Greatly enlarged. 

 Drawing by Dr. H. H. Knight. 



'a//s/ 



Fig. 68. Lopidea davisi Knight, — 

 male genital claspers, (a) left clasper, 

 dorsal aspect, (e) right clasper, inter- 

 nal lateral aspect. Greatly enlarged. 

 Drawing by Dr. H. H. Knight. 



scutellum, and more or less on pronotal disk, darkened with 

 fuscous ; antennae, tylus, rostrum, base of head, and a stripe each 

 side of front, black; legs blackish, trochanters and coxae except 

 basally, yellowish; genital claspers (fig. 6y), distinctive of the 

 species. 



Female: Length 6.5 mm., width 2.4 mm. ; more robust than the 

 male but very similar in coloration. 



Breeds on Polymnia uvedalia, and probably P. canadensis. 



Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York. 

 L. davisi Knight. 



Ent. News, xxviii, 458, 1917. 



Male: Length 5.5 mm., width 2 mm. ; yellowish orange to red- 

 dish ; antennae, legs, front of head, and rostrum, black ; calli, base 



