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about as long as the head. Thorax with prominent bristles, scutellum with four 

 strong marginal bristles; pleura brownish below the humeri and wings; a long 

 curved bristle midway between the base of the wing and posterior coxa. Abdomen 

 with a large bristle at the posterior angles of the third and fourth segments. Legs 

 black, bases of the femora and all of the tarsi brown; middle tibiae with two very 

 large, spine-like bristles at about one-fourth the length of the tibia from the base, 

 and a corresponding pair at about one-fourth the length of the tibia from the apex, 

 the intermediate and apical spines much smaller; metatarsi with three large, apic-al 

 spines; posterior femora with an upper and lower row of large bristles. Hal teres 

 black. Wings dark smoky brown, with the greater portion of the first basal cell, 

 the anterior and middle of the discal cell, a long slightly curved stripe in the middle 

 of the marginal cell, and a large crescent shaped mark beyond the discal cell, sub- 

 hyaline; the bristles on the first section of the costa double the length of those on 

 the second and third, the length of all the sections about equal. Length 2. ,5 mm. 



One specimen, Framingham, Mass., Oct. 19, 1913, collected by 

 Mr. C. A. Frost while sifting for coleoptera and presented with 

 many other interesting species to the New England collection of 

 the Boston Society of Natural History. 



Leptocera palliceps sp. nov. 



Female: Front, face and occiput light yellow, shining; antennae- dark brown with 

 prominent bristles, third joint hairy, arista pubescent, as long as the width of the 

 head; vertex with three orbital bristles on each side with narrow black lines ex- 

 tending from the central bristles to a point at the verve:*, ocelligerous area brown 

 and bearing two bristles; tip of the proboscis black. Thorax and abdomen black, 

 shining. Legs yellow, middle and posterior femora black. Wings brownish hya- 

 line, with a slightly darker spot in the marginal cell. Length of the third section 

 of the costa about double the length of the second. Length 1mm. 



One specimen, Clemonton, N. J., May 12, 1899. Type in the 

 author's collection. This little species seems to be readily dis- 

 tinguished by its entirely light yellow head. 



HEMIPTERA-HETEROPTERA OF MAINE. 



Corrections and Additions. 



Since the publication of my list,^ it has come to my notice that 

 there are a number of changes which should be made in the records. 

 Some of these have been very kindly brought to my attention in 

 correspondence, others I have noted myself. I am changing here 

 chiefly such things as might cause confusion, preferring to leave 

 for the present matters which are more or less debatable. In a 



1 Psyche, Vol. XXL, 1914, p. 139. 



