Vol. XXvii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 9 



Additions to Insects of New Jersey, No. 3. 



By HARRY B. WEISS, New Brunswick, New Jersey. 



According to Mr. Buchholz, the Lencania e.rtincta Gn. 

 (Lep.) records in the 1909 list, "Insects of New Jersey," re- 

 fer to Leucania linita Gn., which was wrongly identified as 

 e.vtincta. Mr. Buchholz further informs me that Leucania 

 extinct a is a Southern species and has never been taken in 

 New Jersey. This correction was made in my second list 

 (Ent. News, June, 1915, p. 261) without the above explana- 

 tion. In Dyar's "List of N. A. Lepidoptera," linita Gn., scirpi- 

 cola Gn. and amygdalina Harvey are given as synonyms of 

 Heliophila (Leucania} e.vtincta Gn. Leucania scirpicola Gn. 

 is recorded as a distinct species in my second list by Mr. Buch- 

 holz. In Smith's "Check List of the Lepidoptera of Boreal 

 America," extinct a Gn. is listed with amygdalina Harv. as a 

 synonym. I would appreciate hearing from interested per- 

 sons concerning the above confusion and difference of opin- 

 ion. 



Ochria sauselitae (Lep.) should be cancelled from my first 

 list (Ent. News, March, 1915), as Mr. M. H. Mead informs 

 me that the record was based on a misidentification. Papai- 

 penia necopina Grt. (Lep.) is mentioned by Smith in his 1909 

 list as being sure to occur in New Jersey. In my first list of 

 additions it is definitely recorded from Passaic Park by M. H. 

 Mead. In my second list, Mr. Buchholz states that necopina 

 has never been taken south of Buffalo, New York, and that 

 Papaipcma maritima Bird, which he records from Union 

 County, New Jersey, should take the place of necopina in the 

 1909 list which was wrongly identified. In order to clear up 

 the doubt in this matter, it will be necessary for the gentlemen 

 in question to compare their specimens. 



To Mr. J. R. de la Torre Bueno, I am indebted for the fol- 

 lowing notes and corrections relating to the Heteroptera in 

 the 1909 list. Thyreocoris latcralis Fab. equals Thyrcocoris 

 gilletteii V. D. and all records under the latter should apply 

 to the former. Lygaeus reclivatus Say is a \Yestern form and 

 not found in New Jersey. Orsillus scolopa.v Say is still tin- 



