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through and through called Caulatops. Some incidental remarks may 

 find their place here. The genus Dacerla, Sign., is placed in the Division 

 Myrmecocoraria, but the author was unable to examine the arolia in the 

 only specimen he has seen. The arolia in Dacerla are quite rudimental 

 and fused with the claws, whereas they are large and free in the Myrme- 

 cocoraria. I think this genus must be placed in the Cremnocephalaria. 

 Horcias affinis, Rent., is, according to Distant, identical with iimbatellus, 

 Walk., which has priority. The author states that Rinacloa citri, Ashni., 

 is identical with Halticus U/tleri, Giard, but he has overlooked that the 

 specific name citri has priority by several years. — E. BERGROTH, liich- 

 burg, Mass; 



FLORIDIAN HEMIPTERA TAKEN BY MR. E. P. VAN DUZEE. 



In his "Observations on Some Hemiptera taken in Florida,"* Mr. E 

 P. Van Duzee has once more rendered a service to American Hemipterists 

 especially, and in a less degree to those of other lands. As the title 

 implies, he has not presented a mere dry-as-dust list, but a very interesting 

 and helpful recital of observations in the field, synonymic notes, rectifica- 

 tions of current misapprehensions, together with a study of the Floridian 

 Hemiptera far more thorough than anything that has been heretofore done 

 for this neglected group and for that region. He enumerates 1 68 

 Heteroptera, among them eight new species, and 1 86 Homoptera, 21 of 

 them new, with two new genera. Mistakes are few, and I have noted 

 only two worthy of being pointed out. Benacus and Amorgius, by some 

 inadvertence, have been placed in the family "Nepidcf* (of which, by-the- 

 bye, none was taken). The other is mainly a matter of critical interpre- 

 tation. Cymus bitvntps, Stal, is listed on p. 166. Mr. Van Duzee. witli 

 great kindness, presented me with specimens of this catch. To my eye 

 the insect is not a Cymus at all, but belongs in the closely-related genus 

 Cymodcma, and is possibly Cytnodema exiguum, Horvath, but, from a 

 cursory examination, I should not be surprised if it turned out to be 

 undescribed. Look again, please, Mr. Van Duzee ! 



But as a whole, this list merits nothing but praise. It is characterized 

 by this author's well-known desire to be accurate, and is most certainly 

 painstaking and reliable to a high degree. Would that his kind abounded ! 

 Then we poor Hemipterists would not be compelled to be forever criti- 

 cizing, correcting and readjusting.— J. R. de la Torre Bueno, New York. 



*igo9 Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci., IX, pp. 149-230. 



Mailed May 7th, 1909. 



