Jan., 1910.] Phlox stolo?iifera Rediscovered in Ohio. 
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A NEW SPECIES OF TINOBREGMUS (Homoptera Jassidae). 
Herbert Osborn. 
Tinobregmus pallidus n. sp. Smaller than vittatus and with- 
out the stripes on the elytra nor the dark markings on the pro- 
thorax, but with a distinct terminal border on the elytra, dark 
brown or black. Underneath somewhat tinged with black. 
Female, length six millimeters to tip of ovipositor. 
The vertex narrow as in vittatus, enlarging anteriorly, distinctly 
rounded to the front: front narrow, elongate, polished; clypeus elongate, 
widening toward the tip; the apex eraarginate; beak equaling the clypeus in 
length and extending to hind coxae. Cheeks long, sinuate on the border; 
lorae narrow, elongate, extending half the length of the clypeus; prothorax 
short, hind border sinuate; elytra ovate, extending to the pvgofer; veins 
rather indistinct; apical cells shortened. 
Color, light yellowish or pallid with ivory luster, the vertex and pro- 
thorax unmarked the front with a central lighter stripe bordered by brown- 
ish suffused stripes becoming darker on the clypeus; beak blackish at base 
and tip; elytra with a distinct black border at the apex, fading toward the 
disk; abdomen above irregularly marked with black; the pygofer with 
black at base and sides and along the inferior border; venter blackish with 
segments bordered with whitish; the ovipositor black. 
Genitalia: Last ventral segment of female slightly sinuous, the hind 
border of ovipositor for extending about one-fourth its length beyond the 
pygofer. 
Described from four specimens, all females, received from Mr. 
E. S. Tucker, and collected at Plano, Texas, May, 1907. This 
species at first sight closely resembles vittatus, but is distinctly 
smaller and lacks the characteristic markings of that species for 
the elytra, prothorax, vertex and front. Its food plant is not 
known. 
PHLOX STOLONIFERA REDISCOVERED IN OHIO. 
Robert F. Griggs. 
Phlox stolonifera Sims., or as it is better known Phlox reptans 
Michx., was reported from Ohio by Riddell in his “Western Flora” 
in 1835 as occurring on “argilaceous hillsides.” No more precise 
locality is given than the simple notation, “0., Ky. ” Since that 
time until the present season the plant has never been observed 
within the borders of the state and its known range, “The Alleg- 
heny region, Pa. to Ky. and Ga.” gave no ground for expecting 
it in Ohio. For this reason Dr. Kellerman in making his “Fourth 
State Catalog of Ohio Plants” excluded it from the list. It was 
therefore a great pleasure to come upon a bed of it in full flower 
on Little Rocky Branch of Big Pine Creek in Hocking County, 
May 30, 1910, where it was growing in a deep cold Hemlock 
forest. 
