No. 34-] HEMIPTERA OF CONNECTICUT I TINGIDAE. 703 



coloration; usually there are two small brown dots on disk of 

 hemielytra. 



Westville, 2 Aug., 1905 (W. E. B.) ; New Canaan, 14 Sept., 1905 

 (W. E. B.) ; New Haven, 3 Aug., 1909 (B, H. W.), 19 Sept., 1910 

 (W. E. B.) ; Hartford, 26 Sept., 1910 (G. H. H.) ; Manchester, 18 Sept., 

 1911 (W. E. B.), II Sept., 1914 (B. H. W.) ; Portland, 14 Aug., 1913 

 (B. H. W.) ; Meriden, 8 March, 1914 (H. L. J.) ; North Stonington, 21 

 Jan., Mystic, 4 March, 191 5 (M. P. Z.). 



Galeatus Curtis. 



The extraordinary species belonging to this genus have the 

 paranota and hemielytra widely explanate, surface vitreous, areoles 

 large and often rectangular ; pronotal hood small ; lateral carinae 

 greatly enlarged, forming two erect hemispheres with convexity 

 outward; angulate process vesiculate. One species occurs in 

 North America. 

 G. peckhami (Ashmead). 



Ent. Amer., iii, 156, 1887. 



Body black, antennae, rostrum, and legs yellowish brown, areoles 

 of the lateral carinae of the pronotum and sutural area of hemi- 

 elytra clouded with dark brown, the rest colorless, vitreous. Para- 

 nota with one series containing five areoles. Costal area with one 

 series of large areoles. Length 4.2 mm. 



Has been found in Maine and New Hampshire. 



Leptobyrsa Stal. 



Head covered by pronotal hood; hemielytra ample, widening 

 from base, rounded at apex. One species occurs in North 

 America. 



L. rhododendri Horvath. Leptobyrsa explaiiata Heidemann. 

 Rhododendron lace bug. 



Ann. Mus. Natl. Hung., iii, 567, 1905. 



Body black, membranous portions pale yellow, the veinlets 

 darker ; a spot on the median carina and a transverse stripe before 

 the middle of hemielytra, brownish. Legs and antennae yellow. 

 Bucculae, sternal ridges, and pleurae pale. Length 3.6 mm. 



Feeds on Kalmia and rhododendrons, often doing considerable 

 damage. 



Rockville, 28 June, 1909 (H. Wood) ; Greenwich, 3 July, 1913, New 

 Haven, 30 June, 1915 (W .E. B.) ; Cromwell, 6 July, 1921 (M. P. Z.) ; 

 Pomfret, 4 Aug., 1922 (B. H. W.). 



Stephanitis Stal. 



This genus, characterized by the gradually widened hemielytra 

 and short lateral carinae, is represented in our fauna by a single 

 species recently imported, probably on azaleas from Japan. 



