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Knob of halteres yellow, stem darker. Wings tinged with grayish 
brown; a distinct hyaline spot back of the base of the fifth vein and 
brown clouds on the cross-vein and middle of the last section of 
fourth vein. 
Described from two males from California; one taken at 
Los Cerritos, Los Angeles County, March 21st, the holotype 
at Berkeley, Alameda County, May 27th. Type in my collec- 
tion. 
A female, taken at San Diego, California, on April 25th, 
may belong to the same species but has the pollen of the face 
more yellowish or brownish yellow, but otherwise about as in 
the male. 
This species is quite distinct from H. intentus Ald., although 
this difference is difficult to put into words, but intentus is 
covered all over with a distinctly yellow pollen, while in this 
species the pollen is more gray, that of the face is silvery or 
only a little yellowish at most. This species is also a little 
stouter than intentus. 
Corrections to ‘New York Scolopostethi” (Family 
Lygaeidae: Heter.). 
By H. G. Barser, Roselle Park, New Jersey. 
In the February, 1917, number of ENTomMoLocicat News, 
pp. 65-68, appeared a paper on the “New York Scolopostethi”’ 
by J. R. de la Torre-Bueno, in which occur a number of grave 
errors which need correction. The sub-family Aphaninae or 
Rhyparochrominae (page 65, lines 18-23) is characterized by 
having the suture between the third and fourth ventral seg- 
ments (not the second and third) more or less curved. The 
tribe Lethaeini (page 65, lines 23-26) was separated by Stal 
from the other tribes or divisions because of the position of the 
posterior glandular opaque spot on both sides of the fourth 
ventral segment, which in this case is placed closer to the an- 
terior spot, far removed from the posterior margin of the seg- 
ment. In 1913 Dr. Bergroth called in question the tribal value 
of these glandular spots, so far at least as the Lethaeini of 
