May, '09] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 23! 



will make further mention on the habits of this thrips in a 

 forthcoming bulletin of the Bureau of Entomology, U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture. 



NOTES ON OTHER SPECIES. 



September 19, 1908, I found two females and two larvae of 

 Megalothrips (?) spinosus Hood under the bark of a dead limb 

 of white birch at St. Anthony Park, St. Paul. The two larvae 

 were both considerably less than half grown and they were 

 purplish red in color. On October 15, 1908, I also discovered 

 a single female of Trichothrips buffae Hood at St. Anthony 

 Park, under plum bark. 



North American Heteroptera. 



BY E. P. VAN DUZEE, Buffalo, New York. 

 These descriptions may be considered as a second install- 

 ment of a paper by the same title published in the December, 

 1906, number of the ENT. NEWS, xvii, pp. 384-391. They 

 represent new species which have come into my hands from 

 various sources. 



Thyreocoris montanus n. sp. 



Size and general aspect of lateralis, but with a broader pale border to 

 the corium. Pronotum more convex, with the lateral margins more 

 rounded, thus giving the insect less of the appearance of being triangu- 

 larly narrowed anteriorly which we find in the allied species ; these mar- 

 gins entire and rounded below the humeri, not longitudinally impressed 

 as in that species. Margins of the cheeks slightly sinuated, the tylus 

 scarcely attaining the apex of the cheeks. In lateralis the tylus is dis- 

 tinctly longer than the cheeks, giving the head a more pointed appear- 

 ance ; whole surface closely punctured. Antennae pale, becoming dusky 

 at apex. Legs piceous brown. Elytra : coriaceous portion white, with a 

 black vitta which does not attain the tip. This black vitta is narrower 

 than in lateralis, and at base is deflected along the inner margin ; when 

 the elytra are closed it conforms to the form of the scutellurn leaving the 

 white margin enlarged within and concentric with this scutellar margin 

 which is not the case in lateralis. Length 3/^-4 mm. 



Described from numerous examples representing the follow- 

 ing localities : Ogden, Utah, on the Wasatch Mountains (type 

 locality) ; Provo and Parowan, Utah, Wickham ; Wenatche, 

 Washington, Wickham ; Riverside, California, Cornell Univ. 

 collection ; and Klikitat V., Wyoming. Those from Ogden I 



