234 NEW SPECIES OF TINGITID^E 



Described from eight specimens, males and females. Sev- 

 enoaks, Fla., May ist, 1908 (E."P.|VanDuzee) ; Florida (Uhler). 



Type (from Sevenoaks, Fla., May 1, 1908, male and fe- 

 male) — No. 1 2 187. U. S. National Museum. 



This neat Tingitid may be distinguished from Atlieas in- 

 signis by the narrowness of body and somewhat smaller size ; 

 the cross-nervures of costal area are not blackish, as in the first 

 species, and the areoles of the sutural area towards the apex are 

 considerably smaller and of a more uniform size. This new 

 species was found in the south-western part of Florida by my 

 friend Mr. E. P. VanDuzee who kindly sent me his specimens 

 for description with a manuscript name which I have adopted. 

 Another specimen labeled Florida is from Prof. Uhler's 

 collection. 



Atheas mimeticus n. sp. 



Body elongate - oval, depressed and black. 

 Head slightly broader than long, the very acute 

 antenniferous tubercles diverging a little. Anten- 

 nae slender, the first two joints and the fourth thick- 

 ened and black; third thin, nearly twice as long as 

 the terminal, pale-yellowish with the basal one 

 third blackish. Pronotum slightly convex, narrow- 

 ing towards the front, very closely punctured, black; 

 the membranous lateral margins straight, narrowly 

 rounding at the shoulder, widening anteriorl}^; yel- 

 lowish-white, uniseriate; the three carinae feebly 

 raised, yellowish; triangular portion of the prono- ATHEAS MIMETICUS 

 notum pale yellowish towards apex, with a few 

 small areoles, tip obtusely rounded. 



Elytra elongate, widest at the middle, lateral margins almost evenly 

 rounding towards apex, hyaline, yellowish-white; discoidal area long, ex- 

 tending to beyond the middle of the elytra, with four to five rows of small 

 areoles, yellowish, outer and inner longitudinal nervure fuscous or brownish; 

 subcostal area narrow throughout with two rows of minute areoles; costal 

 area nearly as broad as the subcostal with two rows of areoles, those at the 

 edge of the margin much smaller than the others, nervures blackish only at 

 the inner side of the costal area. Legs dull yellowish with the tarsal joints 

 and claws black. Male and female uniform in size. This species has a 

 brachypterous form which is shorter and stouter with the elytra less elong- 

 ated, wider behind the middle and hardly surpassing the abdomen. 



Length 2,4 m.m.; width across the widest part of the elytra 0.8 m.m. 



Described from seven specimens, males and females and 

 one brachypterous female. Milwaukee, Wis. (W. H. Ashmead) ; 

 Minnesota (P. R. Uhler); Baldwin, Ks., January 2, 1898 (Brid- 



