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" Rhynchotographieen," where the species in question is described. Anisops 

 platycnemis is small, about 5 mm. long, while this bug is 7 to 8 mm., and, according 

 to Fieber's description, approaches the preceding. This species is the most abund- 

 ant in this vicinity. 



Genus PLEA Leach. 

 P. striola Fieber. 



Staten Id., N." V., May 7 and 16, and September 26 ; Van Cortlandt Park, New 

 York City, April 11, 18 and 25, September 13 and 19; Rahway R., Cranford, N. 1., 

 August 27 ; Westfield, N. J., July 16 and August 13. 



This small bug is abundant from early spring until late fall, hiding among the fine- 

 leaved aquatic plants and algse, where it swims about in quest of its food, crawling 

 on the stems and among the matted fibers. As far as I have been able to observe, 

 this Ilemipteron is a vegetable feeder. 



In conclusion, for the information of those of my readers who 

 have not collected about New York, I will give a few notes on the 

 localities. Central Park, of course, is the well-known pleasure ground 

 of New York City, right in the heart of it. There is a little lake at 

 about 1 ooth street and the west side of the Park, where I have taken 

 most of the aquatics for which this locality is given. Van Cortlandt 

 Park is also in the city, toward Yonkers, on the line of the N. Y. and 

 Putnam R. R. It is far more wild than Central Park, and in the lake 

 there I have made very good catches. This was drained this year, 

 unfortunately, to make some "improvements" and the insects are 

 gone. Land bugs I have taken along the edges of the lake, in the 

 bushes and grasses growing between it and the railroad tracks, and 

 also in a sandy spot between the tracks at a fork of the railroad. 

 Mosholu is about a couple of miles north of Van Cortlandt Park, and 

 in fact, the collecting grounds form a part of this park. The localities 

 where collecting is done by the New Yorkers are a meadow about a 

 quarter of a mile west of the station and the woods on the hillside 

 and those through which a little stream runs on the other side. 

 Staten Id., means the entire island, in its ponds and woods and fields. 

 Palisades, N. J., stands for the region around Fort Lee, Grantwood, 

 Edgemere, and the other small towns that are springing up, including 

 also Leonia. Bronx is the northern part of New York City, which is 

 still more or less of a wilderness, but rapidly building up. 



