6 FAUNA OF NEW ENGLAND. 



cultural Experiment Station (W. E. Britton); IMaine Agricultural 

 Experiment Station (E. M. Patch); Massachusetts Agricultural 

 College (H. T. Fernald); Museum of Comparative Zoology (S. 

 Henshaw and N. Banks); New Hampshire Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Station (W. C. O'Kane); Rhode Island State College (J. 

 Barlow); Wellesley College (A. P. Morse); and many private 

 cabinets the owners of which are mentioned in the appended list of 

 collectors. 



It is a great pleasure to take this opportunity of expressing my 

 especial sense of obligation to Charles W. Johnson. His unusual 

 success as a collector, intimate knowledge of our region and its 

 fauna, and stimulating ad^dce have been of the very greatest 

 assistance in the present undertaking; his unfailing enthusiasm 

 and genial nature have made our frequent consultations a constant 

 source of enjoyment,— truly a rare and valued friend ! 



Analysis of the data presented in the following pages brings out 

 much of general interest, which may now be summarized in part. 



Faunal Zones. 



The lack of exact knowledge bearing on the distribution of the 

 Hemiptera in British America and many parts of the United States 

 seriously interferes with detailed speculation on the origin and 

 nature of the New England fauna, but the facts at hand seem 

 sufficient to warrant a few observations relative to this subject. 



As observed by Scudder in his distributional studies on Lepi- 

 doptera,^ the southern shore of New England as far north as Cape 

 Cod exhibits marked Upper Austral characteristics, a conclusion 

 borne out by the work of many subsequent writers on the fauna 

 and flora of the region. The present investigation furnishes 

 further evidence in support of this view, as I am able to record the 

 discovery within this area of such characteristically southern 

 Hemipterous species as Solubea jmgnax, Corizus hyalinus, Mcso- 

 miris curtulus, and Garganvs fusiformis. MacrotrachelicUa nigra 



• Scudder, S. H. The Butterflies of the Eastern United States and Canada, 

 Cambridge, 1889, vol. 1, p. 89 et seq. 



