36 PROC. ENT. soc. WASH., VOL. 21, NO. 2, FEB., 1919 



Material is at hand from Straight Creek, Lee Co., Virginia; 

 Kanawha Station, West Virginia, on Lobelia; Springfield, Massa- 

 chusetts; Pen Mar, Pennsylvania; New York; Grand Ledge, 

 Michigan; Kansas City, Missouri; Pontchatoula, Louisiana; 

 Baldwin, Florida. It breeds in the seed pods of Lobelia inflata 

 and L. syphilitica. 



Miarus (Cleopomiarus) micros Germar. 



Cionus micros Germar, Mag. der Ent., vol. 4, p. 309, No. 21. 

 A European species which breeds in the capsules of Jasione 

 montana. 



Two specimens from Winnipeg, Manitoba, collected by Han- 

 ham, run to this species in Reitter's table. 



Miarus (Cleopomiarus) puritanus Casey. 

 Miarus puritanus Casey, 1910, Can. Ent., vol. 42, pp. 143, 144. 



No material is at hand which can be definitely placed here, 

 although a Massachusetts specimen of hispidulus answers rather 

 closely. 



Miarus (Cleopomiarus) nanus Casey. 

 Miarus nanus Casey, 1910, Can. Ent., vol. 42, p. 144. 



No material is at hand which can be attributed to this species. 

 It is also described from Massachusetts. 



Miarus (Cleopomiarus) illini Casey. 



Miarus illini Casey, 1910, Can. Ent., vol. 42, p. 144. Described 

 from Illinois. 



No material is at hand from Illinois, nor are there any speci- 

 mens which can be definitely assigned here. 



Miarus (Cleopomiarus) meridionalis Brisout. 

 Gymnetron (Cleopus) meridionalis Brisout de Barneville, 1S62, 



Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., ser. 4, vol. 2, p. 668. 

 Miarus consnetus Casey, 1910, Can. Ent., vol. 42, p. 144. 



A European species recorded from France, Spain, Italy, Algeria, 

 and Tunis. Casey's species was described from Kansas. One 

 specimen is at hand from Douglas Co., Kansas, altitude 900 ft., 

 collected by F. H. Snow. In Europe this species breeds in the 

 ovaries of Linaria fih 'folia, and L. striata. 



THE IDENTITY OF SMYNTHURODES BETAE WESTWOOD (HOM.). 



By A. C. BAKER, Bureau of Entomology. 



In the Gardners Chronicle, July 7, 1X49, p. 420, J. O. West- 

 wood erected the genus Smynthurodes for a species of aphid which 



