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Lakehurst by Torre Bueno. This list also includes a Staten 

 Island record by Davis. Miss Patch, in Bull. 134 of the Maine 

 Agric. Exp. Sta., records it as occurring on willow and alder 

 between Bangor and Orono, Maine, and it also occurs in Ohio, 

 according" to Osborn and Drake, in Bull. 8 of the Ohio Biol. 

 Survey. Heidemann, in the Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., vol. viii, 

 Nos. 1-2, cites records from Pennsylvania. District of Colum- 

 bia, Virginia, Massachusetts, Illinois and Kansas and states 

 that the National Museum contains specimens labeled as found 

 on elm, crab apple and hazel. Van Duzee in his check list of 

 the Hemiptera of America North of Mexico gives the general 

 distribution as Eastern States and Canada. 



It was described by Heidemann in Vol. viii, Nos. 1-2, of the 

 Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., in which brief mention is also made of 

 the larval forms and eggs. The adult overwinters, having 

 been found by Barber while sitting under alder during Novem- 

 ber. Heidemann states "under fallen leaves and in crevices of 

 the bark." In New Jersey the insects appear during the latter 

 part of May or first of June, according to the weather, and 

 eggs are deposited on the under sides of the leaves in the 

 pubescent tissue found in the axils formed by the main rib 

 and its side branches. From one to five eggs were found 

 in each axil, each egg usually being inserted at right angles 

 to the leaf surface and all being completely hidden. Eggs 

 were found similarly placed in the leaves of birch. Heide- 

 mann records finding the eggs on black alder (probably AJ- 

 )i!!s vulgaris). Considerable feeding takes place during egg 

 deposition. The nymphs after hatching feed in colonies 

 on the under sides of the leaves causing a discoloration of the 

 upper surfaces, which, however, is not as pronounced on alder 

 as the discoloration following the feeding of other species 

 on other plants. On birch, however, the eflects of the feed- 

 ing were much more evident. 



By the middle of July adults of the first brood are present 

 and copulation takes place followed by egg-laying during the 

 last of this month. From five to six weeks are required for 

 a complete life cycle and during the last of August or first of 



