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Our phylace are from southern Colorado and New Mexico, 

 several bearing the date June, which would tend to upset the 

 seasonal form theory. 



As further evidence for the distinctness of the two species, 

 we would call attention to the great and constant difference 

 in the stigma on the fore wing of the males, a point which 

 has always been considered of excellent specific value, and 

 which is used in Europe with great success in separating the 

 nearly allied species lineola and thaumas. In bellus the stigma 

 is long and narrow, consisting usually of three distinct tufts 

 of black hair, extending in a line from the space between veins 

 Cui and Cu2 across the former to the anal vein. In phylace 

 the stigma is much shorter and somewhat stouter: it con- 

 sists of two tufts of hairs and is largely confined to the space 

 between Cui and Cu2, extending but for a short distance 

 across Cui and never reaching the anal vein. 



With regard to M. anubis G. & S. and M. bicolor Mabille, 

 which Coolidge is also inclined to place as synonyms of 

 phylace, we are unacquainted with either of these species, but 

 would advise great care in making synonyms of species 

 merely because the descriptions or figures appear to fit in 

 fairly well with each other. Sufficient confusion has already 

 been caused among our North American Lepidoptera by such 

 procedure, and unless one has had access to the actual types 

 themselves, or to specimens compared with the types by some 

 reliable authority, it would be well to hold before one the 

 motto advocated by the guides in the Alps of Switzerland, 



"Hurry slowly." 







Arrangement of the Species of Dendrocoris Bergr., 

 with the Descriptions of two new Species (Hemip.). 



BY H. G. BARBER, Roselle Park, N. J. 



In my paper on the "Hemiptera from Southwestern Texas," 

 published in the "Bulletin of the Museum of the Brooklyn In- 

 stitute of Arts and Sciences," Vol. I, No. 9, 1906, I described 

 Dendrocoris schaefferi and gave a synoptic key for distin- 



