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three names in the Uhler collection and in the U. S. National 

 Museum collection. Hal tic us apterus is easily recognized by the 

 large, robust, convex form, the black and very shining dorsum 

 without the golden scale-like pubescence. 



Subfamily ORTHOTYLiNiE. Tribe Orthotylini, 



Cyrtorrhinus caricis Fallen. 



12 cT 9 , Sept. 10-17, Rockaway Beach, Long Island, N.Y. 

 (H. Ruckes). cf 2 9 's, Sept. 5-10, Sea Cliff, N.Y. (Nathan 

 Banks). 9, Sept. 30, Lakehurst, New Jersey, (H. G. Barber). 



This species adds another to our fauna of those well known 

 in Europe. In the past Uhler had placed his Orthotylus marginatus 

 as a Cyrtorrhinus, but to date no species from this country has 

 been allowed to remain in that genus. The writer has worked 

 over all the literature on Cyrtorrhinus caricis Fallen and finds the 

 material here recorded agrees with that species in every respect. 

 The small size, rounded black head with two pale spots on the 

 vertex, black thorax and scutellum, pale legs, clavus and inner 

 half of the corium fuscous with the embolium and outer half of 

 corium pale greenish, will serve to distinguish the species at once. 



Saunders (British Heteroptera, p. 283) records the species 

 from "amongst rushes," and judging from the Long Island lo- 

 cality records the species will probably be found breeding on Carex 

 or other plants in the Cyperaceae. 



Heterotoma merioptera Scopoli. 



9 , Aug. 5, 1915, Honeoye Falls, New York, (M. D. Leonard). 

 This interesting addition to our fauna was taken by Mr. Leonard 

 on the land of one of the large importing nursery firms situated 

 at Honeoye Falls, N. Y. It has doubtless been introduced in the 

 nursery stock shipments or in the packing that comes around the 

 stock. In this way we have got and will probably continue to 

 import insects that deposit their eggs in the stems of various plants. 

 Saunders (British Heteroptera, p. 295) gives a good account 

 of the species which is easily recognized by the rugose character 

 of the membrane and the inflated second antennal segment. The 

 writer has compared the above specimen with forms from Spain 

 and England and finds it to be identical. 



