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forms were included under the same generic term. Mr. Howard 
said this agreed with his ideas on the subject. 
Mr. Heidemann made the following 
REMARKS ON THE HEMIPTERA COLLECTED BY MR. SCHWARZ 
IN DADE Co., FLORIDA. 
BY O. HKIDEMANN. 
The material collected by Mr. Schwarz is now in the hands of Prof. Uhler, 
in Baltimore, who has promised to determine it and to make a list of 
the species. 
I recently spent an afternoon in looking over Prof. Uhler's large collec- 
tions, and also obtained from him considerable information about these 
interesting insects. There appear to be about 95 species altogether, every 
one of which belongs to the fauna of Cuba, San Domingo, or some other 
part of the West Indies. All but four or five obscure little Aradidce and 
Capsidce and a few Pentatomidce are well known and described. 
Among the Pentatomidce were Euschistus variolaris Pal. Beauv., and a 
Nezara, which I made out to be Say's Pentatoma abrupta, now ranked as 
a synonym of Nezara pennsylvanica De Geer. Prof. Uhler said that the 
insect was a typical specimen of N. pennsylvanica. N. hilaris, which is 
quite common in the vicinity of Washington, differs in having the hind 
angles of the pronotum triangular instead of rounded. 
It would be interesting to know more certainly the geographical distri- 
bution of these species how far they may extend beyond southern Florida. 
As soon as \ receive a list of the species I hope to be able to give more 
and better information concerning them. 
Mr. Smith, referring to the character of this fauna, stated that 
among the Lepidoptera, so far as they had been studied, the West 
Indian fauna predominates, and in his opinion they really belong 
to this fauna, and not to that of temperate North America. He 
would not add them to our catalogues for that reason. 
Mr. Schwarz said that this fauna extends much further north 
than is generally supposed. He finds considerable difficulty in 
determining the species, but gradually, as he succeeds in working 
them up, he finds that they all belong to the West Indian or Cen- 
tral American fauna. 
Mr. Howard mentioned that among the specimens brought home 
by Mr. Schwarz are some short-winged chinch bugs, peculiar in 
having quite sharply-pointed elytra. He has seen the same form 
from other localities, always from the sea-shore, and he believes 
that it is a sea-coast form. 
