1911] Hypera and Phytonomus in America 441 



(coll. Conn. Agr. Exp. Sta.); Meriden (Britton in litt. May 

 29, 1911); Colebrook, June, 1911 (Titus); Hartford, June, 1911 

 (Titus). 



New Jersey: Ramsey, 31 May, 1908 (Schaeffer) ; Hewit 

 (Schaeffer) ; Rahway, 23 July (Bischoff) ; Newfoundland, 30 May 

 (Bisehoff) ; Lake Hopatcong, 30 May (J. A. Grossbeek). Also 

 Mt. View (Bischoff in litt). 



Mr. E. A. Bischoff writes me that this is the species listed as 

 Phytonomus castor in the Smith Cat. Ins. of New Jersey. He 

 states further, "Mr. Dow from New York was the first to collect 

 it at Rockaway Beach and had it identified as castor. He was 

 kind enough to let me have a pair; Mr. Grossbeek of New 

 Brunswick collected it at L. Hopatcong and let me have another 

 pair, after which I collected it at Mountain View, Newfound- 

 land, and Rahway, N. J." 



Mr. R. P. Dow (in litt. 16 May, 1911) states that he first 

 collected this species in June, 1907, in the "Rockaway Washup. " 

 In 1908, he collected specimens in a back lot in Brooklyn and 

 received specimens from Torre Bueno collected in White Plains. 

 Mr. Dow states that he took the same species in Claremont, 

 N. H., "June 23-29, 1909-10." 



Food Plants and Life History: Gyllenhal and Germar both 

 report the species as feeding on clover in Europe, and Herbst 

 certainly must have taken his trifolii from clover. Kaltenbach 

 (1874) notes that it feeds on young shoots of lucern; Brischke 

 reported it as feeding on lucern in Germany, and Laboulbene 

 took it from Trifoliuni pratense in France. 



Kleine gives the food plants as Medicago sativa, M. falcata, 

 M. liipulina, M. media. Trifoliuni pratense and T. incarnatiini. 

 It has been reported as causing injury in Germany, Austria 

 and Southeast Russia to lucern. 



Dr. E. P. Felt bred his specimens at Albany, N. Y., from red 

 clover. 



Dr. Britton very kindly sent me living specimens collected 

 by Mr. Champlain at New Haven, in May. From these I 

 secured eggs. The eggs were deposited on and in the stems and 

 leaf petioles of clover and alfalfa and on blossoms of clover. 

 Five to nine in a place in the stems and singly in the other 

 situations. 



