704 CONNECTICUT GEOL. AND NAT. HIST. SURVEY. [BuU. 



S. pyrioides Scott. (PI. xvii, 8.) 

 Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (4), xiv, 440, 1874. 

 New Canaan, 20 Sept., 1919 (P. G.). 



Gargaphia Stal. 



Pronotal hood small, not entirely covering head; hemielytra 

 widely explanate, extending much beyond apex of abdomen. 



Key to Species. 



1. Head with five long acute spines ; length more than 4 mm 2 



Head with very short blunt spines ; length less than 4 mm. . . . angulata 



2. Paranota much narrower than disk of pronotimi, evenly rounded 



laterally tiliae 



Paranota almost as wide as disk of pronotum, angulately rounded 



solani 



G. tiliae (Walsh). 



Proc. Ent. Soc. Phila., iii, 408, 1864. 



Pale yellow^ish brown; head, apical antennal segment, disk of 

 pronotum, and a few veinlets before the middle of the hemielytra, 

 dark brown. Length 4.2-4.6 mm. Feeds on the basswood. 



Pleasant Valley, 5 Sept., 1915 (G. P. Englehardt). 

 G. angulata Heidemann. (PI. xvii, 7.) 



Can. Ent, xxxi, 301, 1899. 



Coloration much as in the preceding ; veinlets varying from pale 

 to brownish yellow. Head with three short blunt spines. Length 

 3.4 mm. 



Injurious to the bean in some regions. 



Brookfield, 27 July, 1910 (E. L. D.) ; Hartford, 15 June, 1913 

 (W. E. B.) ; New Haven, 19 Aug., 1913 (L B. R.) ; 23 July, 1920 (P. G.). 



G. solani Heidemann. 



Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., xvi, 136, 1914. 



Length 4 mm. ; is widely distributed from Virginia toward the 

 south and west, and may yet be found within our limits. It feeds 

 on several species of Solanum, being very injurious to the eggplant. 



Gelchossa Kirkaldy. 

 (Leptostyla Stal.) 



Species having explanate and membranous hemielytra, but of 

 elongate form. Hemielytra extending much beyond apex of abdo- 

 men, usually somewhat constricted at middle, without discal 

 elevation. 



Key to Species. 



1. Costal area without a band ; frontal spines long 2 



Costal area with a distinct black band before the middle; frontal 



spines short .clitoriae 



2. Veinlets of costal area brown in part heidemanni 



Veinlets of costal area white oblonga 



