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Explan \i ion  i Plate 6. 

 Fig. i. — Bdella corticis, n. S|>., left palpus, x 108. 

 •' 2. — " " right mandible from above, x 240. 



Fig. 3- — Bdella corticis, tip of tarsus of leg 1 with ambulacre ; from 

 the inside and below, x 500. 



Fig. 4. — Bdella muscorum, n. sp., left palpus, x 160. 

 " 5. — " •' right mandible, x 140. 



" 6. — " " tarsus of leg 1, x 160. 



" 7. — Bdella depressa, n. sp., right palpus, x 240. 



NOTES OX SOME HEMIPTERA TAKEN IX '1'Hl': BERMUDAS 



BY W. J PALMER. 



BY E. I'. VAN DUZEE, BUFFALO, X. V. 



1 am indebted to Mr. \\ '. J. Palmer, of Buffalo, X. V.. for a small but 

 very interesting collection of Hemiptera taken by him on the Bermuda 



Elands on December 9th. 190S. He was on the islands but two or three 

 d tys, and had very iittle time lor scientific work, but he was able to secure 

 120 specimens representing seventeen species. A very good showing, 

 considering the season and the limited fauna of these islands. Prof. 

 Verrill, in his " Bermuda Islands," published in 1903, lists all the species 

 known to him to have been recorded as taken in these islands up to that 

 time. Excluding the plant lice, he enumerates 20 species, to which must 

 be added one, Tinobregmus vittatus. Van Duzee, recorded by Prof. 

 Herbert Osborn, but overlooked by Prof. Verrill, and possibly the Cicada 

 recorded by Dr. Uhler as tibicen, but perhaps considered identical with 

 Bermudiana by Prof. Verrill. To these must now be added twelve of 

 the species recorded below as taken by Mr. Palmer, making a total of 

 thirty-four species now known from these islands. The identity of a few 

 of those quoted by Prof. Verrill is doubtful. The Lygus he figures at 

 plate 99, fig. 17, may be Lygus af>icalis, var. prasinus, Reut. The 

 Rliafiigaster cydnus recorded by J. M. Jones is unknown to me, and may 

 lepresent merely a clerical error. The Nabis reported by Dr. Dahl may 

 very likely be the Reduviolus capsiformis taken by Mr. Palmer. These 

 identifications may reduce the total number of recorded forms to 30 or 31. 

 It is a somewhat remarkable fact that all the species taken by Mr. 

 Palmer, and most of those recorded by Prof. Verrill, have also been taken 

 in Florida. If this holds true for all the insect fauna of these islands, as 

 it is very likely to do, we must look for the origin of this fauna to the 



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