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prothorax, wing-pads, connexivum, antennae, tibiae and dorsal stink-orifices 

 more or less black. The scutellum is green, with two black round spots 

 at the base. This is, of course, a very rough description, but having 

 nothing but dry specimens, it is as good as can be given under the 

 circumstances. 



One day in August I noticed climbing up the trunk of a large Maple 

 on the roadside the nymph of a Bj-ochymena. This was also taken home 

 and put in the life-cage on the bean on which it fed and throve. It 

 finally moulted, giving a somewhat small but perfect B. arborea. This, 

 in the nymph as well as the adult, had the curious habit of concealing its 

 antennae when at rest. They were bent under the body, and rested close 

 to it between the cox«, lying quite straight and parallel to the rostrum. 



Near the Bronx River, in some underbrush, was swept a winged 

 specimen of Rediiviolus subcoleoptraius. This form is very rare, and only 

 some six or eight have been recorded by different authors. 



For some reason, winged form.s of Water-striders of all genera seem 

 to have been extraordinarily abundant in the summer of 1906, at least in 

 this locality. Trepobates picius, which even in the tropics occurs mostly 

 wingless, gave one winged specimen. The macropterous form of Micro- 

 velia cifnericana also was very common, and M. pulchella in one locality 

 gave nothing but winged specimens. Mesovelia Mtihanti also yielded 

 more than the usual proportion of winged individuals, and the three 

 Rheumatobates Rileyi secured were in the same condition. 



In the summer of 1906 my poor health compelled me to indulge in a 

 long vacation, with bucolic joys to make time pass. I went to a little 

 village named Fly Creek, which my friends suggested was a most 

 appropriate abiding place for one of my " buggy " tendencies. Toward 

 the end of August all the population of the place goes hop-picking, and 

 my farmer-host insisted that I should lend my aid to the person he was 

 going to work for, which I did. The hop-vines were covered with Aphids, 

 and running over the leaves and stems in vast numbers was a black-and- 

 white Anthocorid bug, which I have not been able thus far to determine. 

 Its chief claim to distinction is its eagerness to insert its beak into anyone. 

 Th e workers on the hop-vines kept handkerchiefs stuffed around their 

 necks to prevent the bug from crawling under their clothes, but at the 

 close of the day they could always exhibit a necklace of bites, shown by 

 the red and inflamed spots where the bugs had succeeded in their purpose; 

 at times their hands also were attacked. 



