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Other slight variations like these are mentioued, and he further 

 states that he saw, many years ago, in some collection, an hermaphro- 

 ditic specimen from the South, iu which the wings of the left side and 

 the left half of the body were female of the glaucus variety, while the 

 right half was male and normally yellow, the valves being developed 

 only on the right side.' This was j^erhaps the same individual figured 

 by \V. H. Edwards, and first described by him in the Transactions of 

 the American Entomological Society (vol. ii, p. 207). 



GENERAL NOTES. 



A NEW APPLE-TREE ENEMY. 



We have received from Mr^ Samuel E. Coleman, of Virginia, a number 

 of specimens of a large Pentatomid bug {Brochymena annulata Fab.), 

 recorded by Uhler as common to the Atlantic States, which Mr. Cole- 

 man says attacked the new growth of his apple trees in the month of 



Fig. 17. — Brochymena amiulata: adult; under surface shown at left — enlarged (original). 



May, pumping up sap from the tender wood, and which is known in his 

 locality as the "large chinch bug." Many twigs and limbs were killed. 

 We advised the kerosene-soap emulsion spray, and while mc do not 

 anticipate any great damage from the species, the record of the habit 

 is sufficiently interestingto justify itspublicatiou. The specimensof this 

 insect in the U. S. National Museum collection show that it occurs in 

 Kew York, District of Columbia, Virginia, North Carolina, Florida, Mis- 

 souri, and Colorado. The adults have been found under old bark in mid- 

 winter, and the eggs and young larvai have been found upon pea- vines 



