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2 (i) Without hairs near ocelli; anterior femora spined only to- 

 ward apex from large spine. 



3 (4) Membrane grey; clavus with three rows of punctures, 



S. atlanticus Horvath. 



4 (3) Membrane dark brown, marked with white; clavus with 

 four rows of punctures, basally confused S. diffidcns Horvath. 



Scolopostethus thomsoni Reuter (1875, Ann. S. E. F., 562) 

 is a widespread species through Europe. With us it has been 

 recorded by Horvath from Canada and California, and later by 

 Barber in Insects of New Jersey (Smith), from Roselle Park, 

 New Jersey, taken by sifting. In his Hemiptcra of Buffalo, 

 Van Duzee states it is not uncommon among moss and rubbish 

 in fence rows ; long- and short-winged forms were found hiber- 

 nating together, in company with Blissus leucopterus; the 

 young occurred in July. It is also known from Alaska. 



Scolopostethus atlanticus Horvath (1893, op. c. 239) is 

 seemingly the most abundant species about New York. Hor- 

 vath recorded it from Massachusetts and New Jersey. In 

 Journal New York Entomological Society it was recorded from 

 White Plains, from clumps of tussock grass or sedge, at the 

 base, in May, June and July. My last catch was in June of 

 last year, when I collected 54 by sweeping the tussock sedge 

 growing in a marshy spot. These individuals came from the 

 flowers or seeds at that time, however. In May I also took it 

 under a board on a dike running through a marsh or swale. 

 The species is to be found overwhelmingly in the short-winged 

 form; out of some 80 before me only five are fully winged. 

 It also seems particularly prone to defective antennae, three 

 specimens having three joints only on one or the other antenna, 

 and one has both antennae 3- jointed. It seems that Costa 

 founded his genus Tritomaccra on such a defective specimen, 

 and it may be that we shall eventually call the genus under dis- 

 cussion by this name. 



I received this species from Colorado under the name Scolo- 

 poscdis discoidalis, a member of the family Anthocoridae. 

 New Mexico (Ft. Wingate) and Newfoundland (East Coast) 

 are new records ex my collection. 



Scolopostethus diffidens Horvath (1893, op. c. 240) is re- 



