40 Journal New York Entomological Society, t^'oi. xxvi. 



Oscinella coxendix Fitch. Gulf crest, Kushla, Saraland, Springhill, 



Alobile, Coden. 

 0. frit pusilla Aleig. (carbonaria Loew). Kushla, Mobile. 



B0RBORID.E. 



Borborus equinus Fall. Kushla. 



? B. neglectus Malloch. Kushla, Spriughill. 



? Leptocera ferruginata Stenh. Kushla. 



Also a number of unidentified species of Leptocera. 



SCIOMYZID^. 



Sciomyza nana Fall. [Mobile, Coden. 



S. pubera Loew. ^Mobile. 



Tetanocera umbrarum Linn. Kushla, Mobile. 



T, arcuata Loew. Saraland. 



Helomyzid.e. 

 Helomyza quinquepunctata Say. Kushla (April). 



SYNOPTIC KEY TO THE SUBFAMILIES OF MIRID^ 

 (HEMIPTERA-HETEROPTERA). 



By Harry H. Knight, 

 Ithaca, New York. 



In preparing a paper on the Miridae of Connecticut the writer was 

 confronted with the necessity of preparing suitable keys for the 

 determination of the species. The first big problem was to prepare 

 a workable key for separating the subfamilies and the respective 

 tribes. Renter (1910) in his " Phylogenie und Systematik der Miri- 

 den " has given a classification of the subfamilies and divisions of 

 [Mirids but no other worker has as yet been able to make practical 

 use of his keys. We must give Renter great credit for pointing out 

 the characters by which the subfamilies should be separated but it is 

 unfortunate he was unable to prepare tables that could be readily 



