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Melrose, Mass., \'I, 17. 1914, (F. W. Dodge), i ?, [Morse On.]. 



Wellesley, Mass., XII, 12, 1894, (Miss Hubbard; on window of Stone Hall), i 9 , 

 [Morse Cln.]. 



Framingham. Mass., \'III, i, 1914, (C. A. Frost; in grocery store), i 9, [Morse 

 Cln.]. 



Salem, Mass., V'lII, i, 1890, (E. S. Morse; in bathroom of house), i 9, [M. 

 C. Z.]. 



Albany, New York, HI, 25, 1908, i 9, [U. S. N. M.]. 



Brooklyn, N. Y., (on bananas), i 9, [Bklvn. Inst.]; IX, 8, 1891, (C. L. Gissler), 

 I 9, [U. S. X. M.]. 



Staten Island, X. Y., Ill, 1906, i 9 ; XII, 1910, i 9, [both Davis Cln.]. 



New Brighton, Staten Island, X. Y., HI, 1915. VIII. 9, 1912, (W. T. Davis; from 

 bananas), 2 9, [Davis Cln.]. 



Xewark, Xew Jersey. IX, 26, 1913, (F. Lange; on bananas), i 9, [U. S. N. M.]. 



Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, III, 9, 1914, (E. R. Casey; alive in street), i 9, 

 [Casey Cln.]; i 9, [A. N. S. P.]. 



Washington, District of Columbia, i 9; XI, 19, 1915, (F. Knab), i 9, [both 

 U. S. N. M.l. 



Arlington, Virginia, VIII, 191 3, (H. A. Allard; Experiment Farms), i 9 , [Hebard 

 Cln.]. 



Madison, Wisconsin. IV, 8 to fall, 1915 and 1916. 3 9, [Wise. Agr. E.xp. 

 Sta. Cln.]. 



Lincoln, Nebraska, I, 30, 1904, (L. Gooding; in bananas), i 9 ; (Miss Fossler), 

 I 9 ; I 9 , [all Hebard Cln.]. 



Osceola, Xebr., (R. Heald), i 9, [Hebard Cln.]. 



Douglas County, Kansas, (R. H. Beamer), i 9 , [Univ. Kansas Cln.]. 



Fort Collins, Colorado, (in bunch of bananas), i 9, [Morse Cln.]. 



Stockton, Utah, III. 1915, (from bunch of bananas), l 9, [Davis Cln.]. 



Bremerton, Washington, 1914, (F. G. Dunn), i 9. [U. S. X. M.]. 



The nomenclatural confusion in the plain green species of the 

 present genus is well shown by the past records for this series. 

 The specimen from Boston has been recorded by Scudder as 

 viridis; that from Salem by the same author as nivea, then as 

 viridis; that from Albany as hyalina of Saussure by F'elt, deter- 

 mined by Caudell; one of the Brooklyn examples by Riley as 

 viridis, and one from Philadelphia by Rehn as virescens. These 

 have further been the bases for subsequent records by Scudder of 

 poeyi from "seaboard cities," by Bruner as viridis and exoleta in- 

 definitely in the Xew Jersey list, while the species has been further 

 recorded as viridis from Wellesley, Massachusetts, by IMorse and 

 from Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, by Riley. In the discussion of the 



