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with European forms of bohcmani determined by Reuter, and finds 

 them to be identical. At Honeoye Falls, N. Y., the species was 

 found breeding on ornamental willows, growing in a commercial 

 nursery. Doubtless the insect was in this case imported from 

 Europe in the egg stage on the nursery stock. One specimen 

 from Colorado has the hemelytra entirely pale, but the form of 

 the insect is distinctive. 



Subfamily Orthotylin.e. Tribe Halticini. 



Orthocephalus mutabilis Fallen. 



Specimens of this species were taken by Mr. C. W. Woods, 

 July 2, 1913, Orono, Maine. Mr. Woods reports finding the 

 species on wild daisies and only in one field. The writer has com- 

 pared two male specimens Avith European representatives of 0. 

 miitahilis determined by Reuter, and finds them identical in struc- 

 ture of the genital claspers as well as colour. 0. mutabilis Fallen 

 is easily distinguished from 0. saltator Hahn by the pale or yellowish 

 inner half of the clavus and the black tibiae. The writer has not 

 seen a specimen of saltator collected from North America. Pro- 

 vancher (1886) records 0. saltator from Canada, and his description 

 fits that species very well. Mr. Van Duzee (Can. Ent., 44: 322), 

 in reviewing the Provancher collection of Hemiptera, states: "136. 

 Orthocephalus saltator Hahn. A Capsid new to me but certainly 

 not the European saltator Hahn." If 0. saltator Hahn has been 

 taken in North America the writer would appreciate having the 

 matter brought to his attention. Mr. Van Duzee in his recent 

 tables to the genera of Miridse left out the genus Orthocephalus 

 for want of material from this continent. 



Halticus apterus Linnaeus. 



The writer has seen only one specimen of this species taken 

 in North America, and that w^as received from Mr. H. M. Parshley 

 who will shortly publish the record from the New England States. 

 This specimen was compared with European material at the U. S. 

 National Museum and found to be identical. 



Halticus citri Ash mead, which is our most common species, 

 has in the past frequently been labeled apterus. It appears under 



