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posterior margin of an eye. Mesoxyphus a^w/^/y triangular. Terminal 

 segment of antenna elongate, somewhat thickened. Intermediate femur 

 equal in length to tibia, tarsus and claw together ; tarsus one-half longer 

 than a claw, which is equal in length to the tibia. Subcostal furrow much 

 as in M. vanduzeei. Length 3X mm. 



Australia, Victoria {xny collection). 



M. erato sp. n. — Head and underside pale stramineous. Pronotum pale 

 sordid yellow, with a broad blackish brown median transverse stripe 

 which does not reach the lateral margins. Tegmina sordid stramineous • 

 clavus with two narrow dark brown lines running parallel to interior and 

 corial margins, uniting at the apex of clavus. Cerium with two elongate 

 suboval areas narrowly dark-brown-bordered, and the exterior lateral 

 margins also brownish black. Pronotum, scutellum and tegmina some- 

 what superficially punctured. Head rounded in front, longer than the 

 pronotum ; lateral margins of pronotum obsolescent ; membrane apically 

 angulate. Length about 3 mm. 



Australia, Victoria (my collection). 



[Note. — M^- friend, Mr. G. W. Kirkaldy, has sent this 

 paper to the publisher through my hands, thinking I might be 

 able to add a more definite localit}' to his new species Micro- 

 ncda vanduzeei, and I have ventured to draw attention here to 

 two additional species of Micronecta just published by Dr. Hor- 

 vath in a paper entitled " Hydrocorisge tres novae " in volume 

 two of the Annales Musei Nationalis Hungarici, pages 594- 

 595. 1904. This paper could hardly have reached Professor 

 Kirkaldy in Honolulu at the time he mailed his paper to me. 

 The species are : 



P. 594. — Micronecta haliploides Horvath from Ceylon. Near 

 M. punctata, but with a shorter pronotum. 



P. 595. —Micronecta carbonaria Horvath from New Guinea. 

 Differs from all previously known specimens in being black. 



The other aquatic bug described in this paper is Plea japonica 

 Horvath from Japan. — E. P. Van Duzee, July 17th, 1905.] 



Mr. O. W. Barrett recently resigned his position as enomologist 

 and botanist of the Porto Rico Experiment Station at Mayaguez, Porto 

 Rico, to accept the position of Plant Introducer in the office of Seed and 

 Plant Introduction and Distribution, Foreign Explorations, United 

 States Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Plant Industry, Washing- 

 ton, D. C. This title has been created for this position. Besides attend- 

 ing to the distribution of tropical and subtropical plants stock, he will 

 have charge of the inspection and quarantine of both incoming and out- 

 going plant shipments of this section of the Bureau of Plant Industry. 



