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var. affinis Harr. In all localities ; common. 



ocellata Hald. Carlisle Jc., VII 4 08 on sumac; Heckton Mills, 

 VI 22 10; Harrisburg, VI 11 10, VI 22 10. 



tripunctata Swed. In all localities; common. 



var. my ops Hald. Heckton Mills, VI 25 08 flying; Inglenook, 

 VI 21 10; Brandtsville, VI 1410. 



var. mandarina Fab. In all localities ; common. 



gracilis Fab. Carlisle Jc., VI 24 10; Heckton Mills, VI 21- 

 09. 



ruficollis Fab.. In all localities on sumac; not rare. 



TETROPS Steph. 

 jutunda Lee. Inglenook, VI 21 10 flying. 



TETRAOPES Serv. 



canteriator Drap. Rockville, VII 29 06 on milk-weed. 

 tetraophthalmus Forst. In all localities on milk-weed. 



DYSPHAGA Lee. 



tenuipes Hald. Harrisburg, reared from beech twigs. Found in 

 the pupa stage during winter. 



Nezara viridula Linne, an Hcmipteron new to the 

 Northeastern United States. 



By J. R. DE LA TORRE BUENO, White Plains, New York. 



Nesara viridula was one of the species included by Linne in 

 his comprehensive genus Cimex, in the tenth edition of the 

 great Systema Naturae. Owing to its variable nature and 

 world-wide distribution it has been redescribed under no less 

 than twenty-one different specific names cited by Distant in 

 the first volume of the Hemiptera part of the Biologia Cen- 

 tr ali- Americana. It is recorded from the whole of Europe, 

 except the extreme North, Asia, Africa, Malaysia, Australia, 

 New Zealand, South America, at least in the north, Central 

 America and enters into the United States at the south, being 

 found in Texas and Florida; the former mentioned by Stal 

 and the latter by Van Duzee. 



It has been my good fortune to come into possession of a 

 specimen taken in a greenhouse in Brooklyn, on December 10, 

 1911. So far as can be ascertained, this is the first authentic 



