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Genus ANEURUS Curtis. 

 A. politus Say. 



Staten Id. , June 26. 

 A. septentrionalis Walker. 



Perth Amboy, N. J., May 31 ; Staten Id., May 12 ; Westfield, N. J., August 

 14 and September 4. 



This species and the preceding are new records from the area under discussion. 

 The latter species appeared in the New Jersey list as Brachyrhynchus simplex Uhl. 



Family PHYMATID^E. 



Genus PHYMATA Latreille. 



P. erosa Linnaeus (= P. wolffii Stal). 



Lakehurst, N. J., July 29 and August 12; Singac, N. J., September; Staten 

 Id., N. V., April 9, August 2, 8 and 31, September 26, October 3 and 5 ; W. Heb- 

 ron, N. Y., August ; Westfield, N. J., July 30 and August 21. 



P. sp. 



Ramapo, N. Y., May 16. 



One specimen only. This is a small species, about 6 mm. long, and entirely un- 

 like the preceding in the shape of pronotum and dilated abdomen. In the absence 

 of Dr. Handlirsch's monograph, I do not care to pronounce positively on its specific 

 position. 



Family HYDROMETRID^E. 



Genus HYDROMETRA Latreille (= Limnobates Burmeister). 

 H. martini Kirkaldy (= //. lineata Say). 



Staten Id., May 7 and 16, April II (Davis), September 26; Van Cortlandt 

 Pk., N. Y. City, April II and July 4 ; Westfield, N. J., June 19, July 3 and 9, 

 September 11 ; Rahway R., Cranford, N. J., August 27. 



American entomologists, following Burmeister and Stal, have always called this 

 genus Limnobates and the family LimnobatidiE. Dr. Burmeister's facility for chang- 

 ing names has given rise to great confusion in this respect, since the more recent 

 European specialists (Montandon, Horvath, Kirkaldy, Puton, et al. ) have correctly 

 appreciated the synonymy, and have shown that Latreille founded the genus on 

 Hydrometra stagnorum Linne, and that the family is therefore Hydrometridse, and 

 the genus Hydrometra . I do not follow them in putting in the Gerridre and Veliidse 

 with it, for reasons not necessary to go into in detail, and consider these as separate 

 families. The specific name, as Kirkaldy points out* cannot stand, as it is preoccu- 

 pied by H. lineata Eschsch., from Manila, so he has changed it to martini. 



H. martini is of retiring habits. In Staten Id., at the same pond, or rather, 

 marsh, Mr. Davis and I have found it in numbers. We have taken together at least 

 150 specimens and let as many more escape. The females seem to be the more 

 abundant in numbers. In all these, we have met with but two winged individuals, 



*The Entomologist, June, 1900, p. 176. 



