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PSYCHE. 



[October, 1900. 



THE DISTRIBUTION OF LEPTYSMA MARGINICOLLIS (SERV.). 



BY SAMUEL H. SCUDDER, CAMBRIDGE, MASS. 



A single mature and one or two im- 

 mature specimens of a Leptysma taken 

 July 13 by Mr. A. P. Morse at Palm 

 Springs in Southern California (on 

 bunch grass in Palm Canon) , and a 

 single specimen from the Colorado 

 Desert, Aug. 13, sent me by the Stan- 

 ford University, had the pale lateral 

 stripe so faint and were found so far 

 west of the regions from which our only 

 known i]iec\e.s, L. marginiconis (Serv.), 

 had been reported, that I at first thought 

 I had an undescribed species before 

 me. Comparison, however, showed 

 that there was no other mark of distinc- 

 tion and this mark was absent from 

 several other specimens I found in my 

 collection, collected by Crotch about 

 San Diego, Cal., that is, in the same 

 or adjoining counties. This greatly 

 extends the published distribution of the 

 species. In my recent Catalogue I gave 



this as the " Southern States east of 

 Mississippi." If I had gone over my 

 collection carefully, I should have found 

 specimens from the above localities and 

 also from northeast Fla., Feb. (May- 

 nard) , Ft. Reed, Fla., April (Comstock) 

 Appalachicola, Fla. (Thaxter), Georgia 

 (Morrison), North Carolina (Shute), 

 Smithville, N. C, Nov. 22 (Maynard), 

 Vigo Co., Ind. (Blatchley) , Auburn, Ala. 

 (Baker), Houston, Tex., on water plants 

 Belfrage), Dallas, Tex., March 6 (Boll), 

 Kansas (Uhler), and Nebraska (Miss 

 Walker). Bruner does not give it in his 

 list of Nebraska insects. It has also 

 been reported from South Carolina 

 (Stal) and Tennessee (De Haan), and 

 I have received it from Biscayne Bay 

 Pla. (Slosson). The range should there- 

 fore have been stated as Southern 

 States from Atlantic to Pacific. 



MISCELLANEOUS NOTES ON COCCIDAE FROM WESTERN 



MASSACHUSETTS. 



BY GEO. B. KING, LAWRENCE, MASS. 



All of the Coccids cited below were 

 collected in the vicinity of Springfield, 

 Mass. (Hampden County), by Dr. 

 George Dimmock, who sent them to me 

 for study, and the following records add 



considerably to our already large list, 

 and many new food plants are here 

 listed for the first time. 



(i) Lccafiium qiiercitronis Fitch. 

 Several lots of this have been received, 



