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turc at West Point. New York, by Col. Wirt Robinson, of four 

 specimens of the extremely rare bug Acantholoma dmticulata 

 Stal, known heretofore only from the type locality and type 

 specimen from Illinois, and recorded only twice since from 

 other parts of the country. Another find on the Long Island 

 beaches is Lrptoglossus magnolias Heid., taken by Mr. F. M. 

 Schott on the tide line at Rockaway, the first record from 

 north of Washington, D. C. 



At Point Pleasant. New Jersey, on July 27, 1905, a little 

 girl brought me a small can full of insects cast up by the waves 

 of the Atlantic on the beach — there were Diptera, Hymenop- 

 tera, Colcoptcra, all much the worse for wear, and among them 

 the following Heteroptera : hUneus strigipes H. S.. Apateticus 

 sp., Euschistus variolarius P. B. and £. ictericus Linne. This 

 last was not uncommon in the sedges in the salt marshes about 

 the beach. 



On August 8. although I had watched for a repetition of the 

 phenomenon from day to day in vain till that date, I secured 

 one Ariius ctistatus Linne, drowned. 



Four years bter (1909), I was on the beach at Rockaway. 

 I^ng Island, on September 12. for the specific purpose of get- 

 ting Heteroptera in the drift. Only six species were collected 

 in the course of the day, which was rather cold and windy. Of 

 these, Ap<Uetieus cynicus .Say was the most abundant, no less 

 than 13 being secured. The others were Apatetiats serieven- 

 trit Uhler, also common; Amaurochrous dmctipes Say, two 

 only ; EuschisHu ruschistoides \'oll.. and E. i-ariolarius P. B., 

 both very commnn. and Ligyrocoris diffufui l'hl«?r. one speci- 

 men. 



While the insects were pretty wet and draggled, they were 

 not dead, and as soon as they began to get dry they showed 

 sipis of getting ready for flight. 



.Xnother four years passed before it was possible for me to 

 stvurc some more beach drift Heteroptera, although I had in 

 the meantime been on the beaches at times supposed to be pro- 

 pitious for this form of collecting. While spending a July day 

 (the 19th) on Fire Island Beach, at Smith's Point, on the long 

 sand dunes separating the ocean from Great South Bay, the 



