880 N. C. AGR. EXP. STA. BUL. 239 
G. fennahi, n. sp., is very similar in appearance to G. coccinea (Forster) in 
which the male does not have the dorsoapical pygofer projection. Also, usually 
the orange markings of the forewings are more extensive in most specimens of 
coccinea than even the most extensively marked specimens of fennahi, but this 
difference tends to break down in the northern part of the range of coccinea, 
e.g. Massachusetts, Ontario, and Michigan, where fennahi is not found. 
G. fennahi was formerly confused with coccinea which has a larger range and 
more varied food plants. It is remarkable that although Olsen (1918b:120) 
conferred names, perhaps unintentionally, on varieties now placed in syn- 
onymy under coccinea (Forster), he recognized one form from North Carolina 
on Rhododendron maximum as more distinct. He described the specimens as 
yellowish-brown to dark velvety brown, but this may have been the result of 
his light source. The host plant suggests that the specimens were the species 
described here as fennahi, but Olsen did not confer a name on it. 
Morcos (1953a) gives an account of the introduction of fennahi, n. sp., (as 
coccinea) to England, and its biology, reporting that although nymphs and 
adults could be collected on plants other than Rhododendron, the eggs were 
laid in the sepals of the latter. 
Graphocephala soluna, NEW SPECIES 
FiGuRE 690, PAGE 857 
Length of male 9.0 mm. Head with anterior margin subangulate in dorsal 
view, median length of crown slightly less than one-half interocular width and 
slightly less than one-third transocular width, ocelli located before a line be- 
tween anterior eye angles, each approximately equidistant from adjacent an- 
terior eye angle and median line of crown, surface with round punctures on 
disk, lenticular punctures behind apex; antennal ledges with anterior margins 
oblique and slightly convex in lateral view; face without a lenticular sclerite 
bordering lateral clypeal suture on each side below eye, clypeus with muscle 
impressions distinct. Thorax with pronotal width greater than transocular 
width of head, pronotal margins convergent anteriorly, disk transversely 
rugose; scutellum weakly rugulose behind transverse sulcus; forewing with 
veins indistinct, outer anteapical cell without supernumerary crossveins, hind- 
leg with length of first tarsomere approximately equal to combined length of 
two more distal tarsomeres. Male pygofer broadly rounded at apex, with 
numerous macrosetae on apical half, with a dorsal anteapical undifferentially 
sclerotized process; plates extending as far posteriorly as pygofer apex; 
aedeagus in lateral view with a quadrate space between dorsal apodemes and 
shaft; paraphyses with rami both tapered’gradually, one longer than other. 
Female unknown. 
Color of crown, pronotum, and scutellum black, with a dull gray marking 
on each side of crown at base, and a number of dull gray dots on posterior 
two-thirds of pronotum; forewing dull reddish; face, thoracic pleura, and 
tibiae of first two pairs of legs black, remainder of thoracic venter and legs 
dull orange to red. 
