A new species of North American Tingitidae

136 PROCEEDINGS ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY

males and

are in

the

collection of

the

Illinois State

Laboratory

of

Natural History under No. _45690, one mounted on card

_point,

the

_other,

with the

cast larval

and _pupal

_skins,

on a

slide in

Can- ada balsam. The

larval skin of

the dry-mounted specimen was not found, but the pupal

^skinis

mounted on _{a separate}

slide

under

the

above number.

A NEW SPECIES OF NORTH AMERICAN TINGITID^E.

BY OTTO HEIDEMANN, Bureau

ofEntomology.

Gargaphia

^solani

new

species

Body

^ratherflat, dark brown;the angulated, yellow rim^ofthe rostral groove very distinct at base ofmetasternum.

Head

_{dark, deeply punc-}

tured; ^atthe frontal part three small, slenderspines, theupper one

more

prominent,

two

others near to the eyes a ^little longer. Antennas _quite long, hairy; basal joint comparatively thick, black

and somewhat

_longer thanthe terminal_joint,

which

isfusciform

and

blackat theapex; second joint the _shortest, testaceous; third

more

thanfour times as long as the fourth _joint, yellowish-white; bucculae moderately expanded, yellowish, with one

row

ofminute areoles.

Fig. ^1.

Pronotum

feebly convex, black, with three low_; yellowish carime, the

median

one a little higher before the middle, tapering toward _{the pale} apex ^of the triangular, posterior portion of

pronotum;

^{the lateral}

mem-

branous_part of the

pronotum

angularlyexpanded, with

two

tofive series of irregular areoles, the edge

somewhat

_{broadly reflexed,}

some

of the nervuresexteriorly blackish. Head,

pronotum and

theedge^ofthe

membra-

OF WASHINGTON, VOLUME

_XVI, 1914 137

nous dilation densely covered with very fine, soft hairs; pronotal

hood

rather large,

much

_longerthan wide, covering the hind part ^of the head, leaving the eyesfree;surface yellowish-white, opaque, with ^afewminute areoles.

Hemelytra

extending about one third

beyond

^the

abdomen;

oblong-oval, broadly rounded ^atthe end, feebly sinuate toward_{the base;}

the discoidal areas pyriform, reaching to about the middle of the_elytra, reticulated, blackishatbase

and

atapex, a pale stripeacrossthemiddle;

the subcostal biseriate, yellow; ^costal margin yellowish-white, trans- lucent, withfour orfive series of

medium

sized areolesatthe widest _part, thosetowardthebasesmaller;^fivetransverse obliquenervuresblackat the costal area

and

allnervures attheapex

more

orlessblackish. Legspale, yellow. Length, ⁴

mm.

;width, ²

mm.

Described from

several

specimens, males and

females.

Kirk- wood, Mo., August ¹⁰

(Riley,

Pergande) found on Solanum

caro- linense

and Solanum

ei&agnifolium;

Lavaca

_Co.,

_Texas, June

21;

Columbus, Texas, July

29,

1879

_(Riley collection)

on,

^coffee

weed and _Solanum; El Reno,

Okla.,

July

^{12, 1909; Norfolk, Va..}

June

12,

1914

_(Fink). ^{It is}

recorded

as

found on

egg-plants

and potatoes

ⁱⁿ great

abundance.

Type: No. 18810 U.

S.

National Museum.

This new

_species

resembles Gargaphia

angulata

Heid.

in

the gen-

eral outline,

but

differs

considerably by ^the

larger ^size

and by ^the prominence

^of

the hood, being much

_longer. It

belongs

^to

a group

of

Gargaphia

species

which have the membranous

dilation of the

pronotum angularly expanded

^{instead of}

^roundly

^{dilated, as in} G. tilia

Walsh;

^G. patricia Stal; G.

opacula Uhler and

others.

Judging from the

localities

already known,

this species

seems

to

have a wide _range

of distribution,

from the

Atlantic coast to the

Southwestern

States.

FORCIPOMYIA PROPINQUUS WILLISTON, A CORRECTION.

BY

J. R.

MALLOCH,

^Urbana, Illinois.

In a footnote

hi

an

article

on Ceratopogonince ante

^p.

63

ofthese

Proceedings

^{it isstated}

that the

_{figures of}

the

tarsus

and the wing

of

Fordpomyia propinquus

-given

by

^{Williston are}

^those

^{of the}

female and not the male.

^I

considered that the statement was an

error

because the

_single

specimen

^described

by

Williston, ^hi addi- tionto

being

indicated as

a male,

^is

from the

description

obviously

of

that

sex.

The

_{figure of}

the

tarsusis also clearlythatof

a

male.

possibly ^of eriophorus,

though

^the

wing

^is

drawn too

blunt

and

short.

'

The

description ^of eriophorus ^is

that

of

the

female,

an

error

being made

in

the

insertion of

the

sex

symbol.