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Knob of halteres yellow, stem darker. Winys tinged with grayish 

 brown; a distinct hyaline spot back of the base of the fifth vein and 

 brown clouds on the cross-vein and middle of the last section of 

 fourth vein. 



Described from two males from California; one taken at 

 Los Cerritos, Los Angeles County, March 21 st, the holotype 

 at Berkeley, Alameda County, May 27th. Type in my collec- 

 tion. 



A female, taken at San Diego, California, on April 25th, 

 may belong to the same species but has the pollen of the face 

 more yellowish or brownish yellow, but otherwise about as in 

 the male. 



This species is quite distinct from //. wtcntns Aid., although 

 this difference is difficult to put into words, but intcntus is 

 covered all over with a distinctly yellow pollen, while in this 

 species the pollen is more gray, that of the face is silvery or 

 only a little yellowish at most. This species is also a little 

 stouter than intent us. 



Corrections to "New York Scolopostethi" (Family 



Lygaeidae : Heter.). 



By H. G. BARBER, Roselle Park, New Jersey. 



In the February, 1917, number of ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS, 

 pp. 65-68, appeared a paper on the "New York Scolopostethi" 

 by J. R. dc la Torre-Bueno, in which occur a number of grave 

 errors which need correction. The sub- family Aphaninae or 

 Rhyparochrominae (page 65, lines 18-23) is characterized by 

 having the suture between the third and fourth ventral seg- 

 ments (not. the second and third) more or less curved. The 

 tribe Lethaeini (page 65, lines 23-26) was separated by Stal 

 from the other tribes or divisions because of the position of the 

 posterior glandular opaque spot on both sides of the fourth 

 ventral segment, which in this case is placed closer to the an- 

 terior spot, far removed from the posterior margin of the seg- 

 ment. In 1913 Dr. Bergroth called in question the tribal value 

 of these glandular spots, so far at least as the Lethaeini of 



