308 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 



Notes on Leptoypha mutica Say (Hemip.). 

 By EDGAR L. DICKERSON and HARRY B. WEISS. 



(Plate XVI) 



In Banks' Catalogue of the Nearctic Hemiptera-Heterop- 

 tera is found the following reference to this species, "New 

 Harm. 26, 1832; Compl. Writ, i, 349, 1859 (Tingis), U. S." 

 In Smith's List of the Insects of New Jersey, it is recorded by 

 Barber from Madison as rare. Mr. H. M. Parshley 

 states that he has no records of it from the New England 

 States and Mr. H. G. Barber says that he has come across it 

 only rarely in material which he has examined from the South- 

 ern States. Taking everything into consideration, it is evi- 

 dent that the species is not at all common. 



An additional locality can now be listed from New Jersey, 

 namely, Hammonton, where for the past few summers it has 

 been extremely abundant on Chionanthus virginica L. growing 

 in a nursery. These plants originally came from Norma, New 

 Jersey, some years ago, but the bugs were noted by the writers 

 only recently. In Stone's Report of the Plants of Southern 

 New Jersey (N. J. State Mus. Rept. 1910), Chionanthus rir- 

 ginica is listed as occurring "only in low woods along the 

 lower part of the Maurice River and Cohansey Creek and up 

 the tributaries of the former to Buena Vista." Hough, in his 

 Handbook of the Trees of Northern United States and Canada 

 gives the natural range of this plant as along both sides of 

 the Allegheny Mountains from southern Pennsylvania to 

 southern Texas and states that it rarely attains a size greater 

 than twenty-five or thirty feet and eight or ten inches in 

 diameter. It is known by various common names among which 

 are fringe tree, old-man'sTbeard tree, snow-flower tree, sun- 

 flower tree and flowering ash. While spoken of as a tree, it 

 is really grown in the nurseries and sold as a bush most fre- 

 quently, and is listed by the nurseryman as white fringe. 



At Hammonton, the insects were abundant enough to in- 

 jure practically every leaf on all the fringe bushes in the 

 nursery. The injury first appears as a slight, whitish dis- 

 coloration on the upper surface along 1 the mid-rib, due to the 

 abstraction of sap by the insect on the under surface. These 



