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I soon found that I had more Lepidoptera than I could well 

 handle, so the Geometridae were taken by Louis W. Swett, 

 who is working in that group, and the Noctuidae by the Amer- 

 ican Museum of Natural History, New York City. 



The remainder of her collection is now at the Boston So- 

 ciety of Natural History, under the care of its efficient curator, 

 Charles W. Johnson. 



Miss Morton begged me not to forget to mention her very 

 dear friends, Mrs. Herring and the late Mrs. Gilbert, both of 

 Plainfield, New Jersey, and the delightful two weeks spent 

 with them at a hotel at Liberty, New York. They used to 

 hire the Liberty stage and go on collecting trips in that beau- 

 tiful section, where many rare specimens were taken. 



Miss Morton has lived an active, industrious life and al- 

 though she has written very little for scientific publications, 

 her work was of the practical, useful kind and her best efforts 

 were devoted to helping others in their entomological studies 

 and pursuits. 



(The photograph from which Plate VIII was made was taken about 

 thirty or thirty-five years ago.) 



The Azalea Lace-Bug, Stephanitis pyrioides Scott 

 (Tingitidae, Hemiptera). 



By EDGAR L. DICKERSON and HARRY B. WEISS.* 



(Plate IX.) 



For the past several years this tingid has been present in 

 New Jersey, but only recently has it become abundant and 

 widespread enough to do considerable damage. It was origi- 

 nally described by John Scott in his paper "On a Collection of 

 Hemiptera Heteroptera from Japan, Descriptions of Various 

 New Genera and Species," which appeared in the Ann. Mag. 

 Nat. His. (4) XIV, p. 440. 1874. Horvath, in the Ann. Mus. 

 Hung. III. p. 568, 28 (1905) et IV. p. 55, 3 (1906), contribut- 

 ed to synonymy by renaming it Stephanitis azalcac. In Van 

 Duzee's check list of the Hemiptera of America, north of Mex- 

 ico, it appears as Stephanitis pyrioides Scott. 



*The arrangement of the authors' names is alphabetical only and in- 

 dicates neither seniority nor precedence. 



