XXXJi, '21] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



The adults were first observed at \Yestbury, New York, 

 May 25. Both sexes were observed upon the foliage and new 

 growth, feeding, mating and egg laying. They were very 

 abundant, five or six examples occurring on one stem. The 

 adults damage the stems in feeding and in making egg punctures 

 which are sometimes so plentiful as to cause the stem to wilt. 

 The eggs hatch about ten days after being deposited. The 

 larvae work in the shoots and leaf stems, making holes and 

 mines that weaken them. \Yhen severe, the new growth dies 

 and the leaves wilt or the weakened stems blow off or the con- 

 ditions are attractive for oilier inject trouble or fungus disease. 

 About the last of July the larvae are full grown and leave the 

 stems and go into the ground. 



Cryptorhynchus fallax I.ec. Reared from Qucrcus ulhu and Cercis 

 ftiihidauis. Humme!sto\vii, I'a.. YIII-.i. VIII-22 Kirk and Knull. 



New Records of Aquatic Hemiptera for the United 

 States, with Description of New Species. 



By T- R- DE LA ToRKF.-BuENo, White Plains, New York. 



Prof. H. B. Hungerford, of the Universitv of Kansas, sent 

 me a number of odd water-bugs for examination. These pre- 

 sent a number of new and noteworthy occurrences, some be- 

 ing recorded for the first time from the United States, to 

 which special attention should be drawn through a separate 

 note, rather than to lose them in a general paper on a group. 



Buenoa elegans Fie1>. Cherokee County. Kansas, Aug., 1920. 

 (Hungerford and Beamcr). First record for the State. 



Buenoa margaritacea Bueno. Cherokee County, Kansas, Aug., 

 1920. (Hungerford and Beamer). Another first record. 



Ranatra kirkaldyi I'.ueno. Cherokee County, Kansas. (Hunger- 

 ford and Reamer). This liki wise is new to Kansas. 



It may not be. amiss to comment here on the validity of this 

 species, in advance of a future careful anal\>i< ot the genus. 

 Prof. Montandon. without knowing the -pecies in narure. pro 

 ceeds to synonvmi/e it ( 1 ( '10. Hull. Soc. Sci. Hue., xviii, IX.} i 

 with I\. fitsca P. H.. in which, naturally, Yan I )u/er follows 

 him in his Catalog (1017. ]>. 462). However, then- arc speci- 

 mens in the I'. S. National Museum named fnscti I'. P>. by Pro!. 

 Montandon, which are the same form I recognize as Pahsol 



