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in the Oriental, one in Australia, and seven in North and Central 

 America. To these should be added three Oriental species of 

 Suragina Walker, which, according to Bezzi,i is not generically 

 distinct from Atherix. In addition, a number of fossil species have 

 been described from Baltic amber (Lower Oligocene) and from 

 the Miocene shales of Florissant, Colorado. - 



As suggested by Knab,^ it is by no means certain that all the 

 species included at present in Atherix are congeneric. In this con- 

 nection it is of considerable interest that the female of the Mexican 

 Atherix longipes Bellardi has been reported as a fierce biter and 

 blood-sucker, a habit unknown in the common European A. ibis 

 and in the North American A. variegata.^ 



lAnn. Mus. Nat. Hungarici, 10, 1912, p. 445. 



- Atrichops hesperius Cockerell, Canadian Entomologist, 46, 1914, p. 101. 

 sproc. Ent. Soc. Washington, 14, 1912, pp. 186-187. 



* Knab, F. Blood-sucking and supposedly blood-sucking Leptidae. Proc. 

 Ent. Soc. Washington, 14, 1912, pp. 108-110. 



A NEW PTINID FOR NEW ENGLAND. 

 On November 3rd, Dr. J. Payson Clark of Boston brought to the 

 Boston Society of Natural History a small beetle that he was fre- 

 quently finding in his house. I could not name it at the time, but 

 a few days later, Mr. II. C. Fall determined it as Niptus hololeucus 

 Hald., a European species, the only previous record for North 

 America being ^lontreal, Canada. Dr. Clark continued finding a 

 few each week, and as late as December 27. In all, some thirty-five 

 specimens were obtained. C. W. Johnson. 



SYMPETRUM CORRUPTUM IN MASSACHUSETTS. 

 On September 10, 1911, I took two males and one female of this 

 dragonfly at the south end of Plum Island, Ipswich, Mass. This 

 is, I believe, the first record of this species in Massachusetts. At 

 the same time and place I also secured a female of Tramea lacerata, 

 making the second record of that species for New England, the first 

 having been taken at Chelsea Beach about (it'ty years ago, and the 

 specimen being now in the collection of the Boston Society of 

 Natural History. The first specimens referred to are in the Essex 

 County collection of the Peabody Museum of Salem^ Mass. 



A. P. Morse. 



