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taken near his home. Mr. A. Nicolay gave me a few specimens col- 

 lected by him at Upper Montclair, N. J., and Mr. F. Wintersteiner 

 specimens from the Hackensack Meadows, N. J. I have very little 

 doubt that this species has already a much wider distribution than 

 indicated, and specimens are very likely mixed with the common 

 S. scarabccoidcs Linn. 



Several varieties are recognized in Europe based mostly on the 

 presence or absence of the subapical and subhumeral spot, color of 

 thoracic and elytral margins or having more or less distinct rows of 

 punctures on the elytra. The series before me, especially those from 

 Long Island, shows great variation in size of the sub-apical spot but 

 cannot be referred to any of the varieties except two of the New 

 Jersey specimens which are referable to the var. quadrimaculatum 

 Marsh. One of these collected by Mr. Wintersteiner is colored 

 exactly like 5*. scarabccoidcs Linn, except that the large, pale, apical 

 spot is not divided by the suture. — Chas. Schaeffer. 



Henicocephalus culicis Uhler.^ — This rare and strange Hemipteron 

 was taken by Dr. Johannsen two years ago under circumstances 

 which he describes as follows : " On the evening of July 5, while 

 walking in my garden on Cornell Heights, Ithaca, N. Y., I noticed a 

 swarm of small insects hovering in the air about six feet above the 

 ground. From their manner of flight I supposed that they were Chi- 

 ronomidse, but was surprised to find that they were small Hemipterous 

 insects belong to the strange family Henicocephalidae. During the 

 days which followed until the last week in August I never failed to 

 find these insects in small swarms flying in sunlight in the same 

 locality and at about^the same hour (/. c, from 5 P. M. until after 

 sundown). Of their further habits I could learn nothing, nor did I 

 find them at any other time of day." (O. A. Johannsen, North Ameri- 

 can Henicocephalidae, Psyche, 1909, p. i.) 



While collecting insects on the twentieth of last April at Clayton, 

 in the mountains of North Georgia, I met with an experience almost 

 identical to that described by Dr. Johannsen. It had been raining a 

 good deal, but at the time of which I write had been clear long enough 

 for the leaves to be dry. Shortly before sunset I entered an open 

 knoll, grown up with grass and studded with small pine trees. There 

 I noticed swarms of tiny insects dancing up and down in the sun- 



