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the ventral surface of these lobes less pinched in or appressed; the 

 sinus between them narrower and the slightly notched central lobe 

 more prominent as viewed ventro-posteriorly as it is more sharply 

 convexed. 



T. ccdccata Say seems to be confined to the territory east of the 

 Appalachians, and judging from the localities from which I have 

 seen material, appears to be more characteristic of the highlands and 

 mountainous districts, while T. custator, at least in the East, occurs 

 more in the low lands. 



Professor Wilson has collected calccata at Madison, N. J., where 

 it is fairly common in the fall. Black Mt. and Southern Pines, N. C. 

 Professor W. E. Britton has loaned me a specimen taken at New 

 Canaan, Conn., which is the farthest north from which I have any 

 record, although Professor Uhler has reported T. ciistator which is 

 probably calccata in the Harris Collection from Cambridge, Mass. 

 In my own collection are specimens from Madison, N. J., and Cold 

 Spring Harbor, Long Island. 



T. custator ranges across the United States from New York in 

 the North and Florida in the South to Oregon, California and the 

 Southwest. I have not seen specimens from northern New York 

 or New England. Professor Wilson has this species from Southern 

 Pines and Black Mt., N. C, Savannah, Ga., Memphis, Tenn., Colo- 

 rado and Arizona. One specimen from Black Mt. has the humeral 

 angles spinose. I have this species from Lakehurst, N. J., the north- 

 ernmost point in my records, Thomasville, Ga., Enterprise and Leon, 

 Fla., Pass Christian, Miss and from various points in the West 

 where it is more abundant, as Dakota, western Nebraska, Missouri, 

 Texas, Arizona, California and Oregon. 



PYRRHOCORIS APTERUS LINN. IN THE UNITED 



STATES. 



By H. G. Barber, 

 RosELLE Park, N. J. 



Pyrrhocoris aptcnts Linn, has a wide range in the old world. In 

 1883 Mr. W. L. Distant, in the Biol. Cent. Amer., p. 414, states: 



