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Antennae: Segment i, length .30mm., black, extreme tip pale; 

 ii, 1.22mm., black; iii, .83mm., fuscous; iv, 47mm., fuscous. 



Pronotum: Length .61 mm., width at base 1.16 mm., brownish 

 black. Scutellum, sternum, pleura, and ostiolar peritreme, black. 



Hemelytra : Black, cuneus pale to yellowish at base ; anal ridge 

 pale; clothed with yellowish to golden pubescence. Membrane 

 uniformly fuscous, veins pale, a small clear spot bordering apex of 

 cuneus. 



Legs : Pale to yellow, coxae fuscous at base ; hind femora with 

 two rows of small fuscous spots on anterior face, upper row near 

 dorsal margin, the lower row less distinct and along median line ; 

 anterior femora with one row of small dots, hind pair somewhat 

 dusky on anterior face; tibiae with small black spots at base, 

 becoming obsolete toward apex. Venter uniformly black, finely 

 pale pubescent. 



Female: Length 4.2 mm., width 1.7 mm. ; more robust but very 

 similar to male in coloration. 



Food plant : Aster sp. 



Holotype: Male, 8 July, 1920, Ithaca, N. Y. (H. H. Knight) ; author's 

 collection. Allotype : same data as type. Paratypes : Female taken with 

 types. New Hampshire — Female, 8 July, 1908, Hanover (C. W. Johnson). 

 New York— Male, 29 July, 1915, Batavia ; female, 26 July, 1916, Ithaca 

 (H. H. Knight). Vermont — Males (2), 8 July, 1908,. Norwich ; male, 23 

 July, 1912, Mt. Ascutney (C. W. Johnson). , 



P. annulatus var. nigrofemoratus Knight, new variety. 



Similar to variety cuneatus but the femora black except on 

 apices ; cuneus black, fracture only very slightly translucent. 



Holotype: Male, 8 July, 1920, Ithaca, N. Y. (H. H. Knight) ; author's 

 collection. 



*Plagiognathus nigrolineatus Knight, new species. 



Uniformly pale greenish, pale pubescent, distinguished by black 

 lines on antennae and femora. 



Male: Length 4.3 mm., width 1.58 mm. Head : width .75 mm., 

 vertex .33 mm. ; pale, apex of tylus black. Rostrum, length 

 1.5 mm., reaching to middle of hind coxae, pale, apex fuscous. 



Antennae : Segment i, length .28 mm., pale, two longitudinal 

 black lines on dorsal surface; ii, 1.38mm., pale, a slender black 

 line on anterior surface extending from base to near middle ; iii, 

 .69mm., pale; iv, .31 mm., pale. 



Pronotum: Length .64mm., width at base 1.22mm.; pale, 

 somewhat greenish anteriorly. 



Hemelytra: Embolar margin only very slightly arcuate; uni- 

 formly pale greenish translucent. Membrane and veins pale, 

 streak on anal area bordering vein and spot in smaller areole, 

 fuscous. 



Legs : Pale ; slender line on dorsal margin of femora, line on 

 apical half of postero-ventral margin of hind femora, spot on 

 knee, and a single dot on anterior face of hind femora at near 



