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are conspicuously stouter. The antennae also recall those of P. 

 forniicarii Ehrhorn, but that species is more hairy, and differs in the 

 size and proportions of the legs." 



MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 



Soronia decumana Er. in Alabama. — Mr. H. P. Loding has found 

 this Mexican species of the family Nitidulidas at Spring Hill, Ala., 

 February i6, under bark of oak. It has previously been reported by 

 Mr. Schaeffer as occurring near Brownsville, Texas (Science Bulle- 

 tin, Mus. Brooklyn Inst. I, 15, p. 375, Apl., 1909). — C. W. Leng. 



Distribution of Hemiptera. — Some interesting records of distribu- 

 tion of certain Hemiptera that have recently come to my attention are 

 herewith reported. Mr. John D. Sherman while collecting near the 

 Huron Mountain Club, Lake Superior, Michigan, in June, 191 1, took 

 two specimens of Pyrrhotcs hccmatoloma H. S. The occurrence of 

 this species so far north of its usual range, in the southern states, is 

 worthy of note. 



Mr. George P. Engelhardt, collecting along the beach at Rocka- 

 way, Long Island, found a single specimen of Ccraleptus americanus 

 Stal. Mrs. Slosson has a single specimen taken at Lake Worth, Fla. 



In my collection is a specimen of Lygccus albulus Dist. which I 

 took at Woods Hole, Mass., in August, 1898. The occurrence of this 

 species in the east seems extremely rare. Having some doubt about 

 the identity of this specimen I referred it to Mr. Van Duzee, who 

 compared it with a specimen of L. albulus determined by Mr. Distant, 

 and the determination was correct. 



I have three specimens of Phyinata ricina Handl. in my collection 

 from New Jersey, one taken at Madison by Mr. Paulmcier and the 

 other two by myself in Lakehurst in June. This species has hitherto 

 not been known from so far north. 



Mctatropiphorus belfragci Rent, was described from Texas. Mr. 

 Wm. T. Davis has taken a specimen of this at Cape May, N. J., in 

 Aug., 1910, and another at Yaphank, Long Island, July 25, 1908. 

 In Julv, 1910, I took a single specimen of this species near Sanger- 



