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The other form, Conocephalus attcniiatus (Scudder), herein 

 recorded for the first time from New Jersey, is like 0. volan- 

 tuin, best known as a characteristic species of the Great Lakes 

 Region and upper Mississippi Basin. East of the Appalachians 

 it is, according to Rehn and Hebard, 7 "very local and usually 

 scarce everywhere." The easternmost locality from which the 

 species has hitherto been recorded is Cornwells, Bucks County, 

 Pennsylvania, where in 1906 and 1914 Rehn and Hebard found 

 it "very scarce in high grasses (Panic um virgatum} and plants 

 along the shore of the Delaware River, and in moderate num- 

 bers in a small marshy area, particularly in a restricted growth 

 of low marsh grass (Panicularia scptcntrionalis)." As this 

 locality is separated from New Jersey by only a river, which 

 at this point is scarcely more than *4 mile wide, the occurrence 

 of the species in the state would seem to be highly probable, 

 but, so far as I am aware, this is the first time it has been 

 definitely reported. My earliest attempt to find attcniiatus in 

 New Jersey was made in the late summer and early fall of 1919 

 when I searched for it in the marshy flats at the mouth of 

 Pensauken Creek in Camden County, but at this place no trace 

 of it was found. In the season of 1920 the territory assigned 

 me in the Japanese beetle field survey was that section of Bur- 

 lington County which lies north of Rancocas Creek. My first 

 attempt to find attcnitatus in this region was made in a marsh 

 at Beverly on the Delaware River, directly opposite the place, 

 Cornwells, where Rehn and Hebard had taken it. but I found 

 none at this locality. The first place at which I finally located 

 it was in a marsh at the mouth of a small stream emptying into 

 the Delaware about midway between Burlington and Florence, 

 where on August 9th I took a single male and quite a number 

 of nymphs, the greater part of the latter being in the last instar. 

 Two weeks later (August 23rd) I collected in the same place 

 12 males, 4 females and 2 nymphs. Other localities in which 

 I also obtained the species include Burlington, where on Sep- 

 tember 7th I found adults locally rather frequent in a tidal 

 marsh along Assiscunk Creek just below the bridge of the 

 Mt. Holly branch of the Pennsylvania R. R., and in smaller 



'Rehn and Hebard, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., XLI, 1915, p. 209. 



