308 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [ July, 16 
Notes on Leptoypha mutica Say (Hemip.). 
By Epcar L. Dickerson and Harry B. WEIss. 
(Plate XVI) 
In Banks’ Catalogue of the Nearctic Hemiptera-Heterop- 
tera is found the following reference to this species, “New 
Harm. 26, 1832; Compl. Writ. i, 349, 1859 (Tingis),—U. S.” 
In Smith’s List of the Insects of New Jersey, it is recorded by 
Barber from Madison as rare. Mr. H. M. Parshley 
states that he has no records of it from the New England | 
States and Mr. H. G. Barber says that he has come across it 
only rarely in material which he has examined from the South- 
ern States. Taking everything into consideration, it is evi- 
dent that the species is not at all common. 
An additional locality can now be listed from New Jersey, 
namely, Hammonton, where for the past few summers it has 
been extremely abundant on Chioxanthus virginica L. growing 
ina nursery. These plants originally came from Norma, New 
Jersey, some years ago, but the bugs were noted by the writers 
only recently. In Stone’s Report of the Plants of Southern 
New Jersey (N. J. State Mus. Rept. 1910), Chionanthus vir- 
ginica is listed as occurring “only in low woods along the 
lower part of the Maurice River and Cohansey Creek and up 
the tributaries of the former to Buena Vista.” Hough, in his 
Handbook of the Trees of Northern United States and Canada 
gives the natural range of this plant as along both sides of 
the Allegheny Mountains from southern Pennsylvania to 
southern Texas and states that it rarely attains a size greater 
than twenty-five or thirty feet and eight or ten inches in 
diameter. It is known by various common names among which 
are fringe tree, old-man’s-beard tree, snow-flower tree, sun- 
flower tree and flowering ash. While spoken of as a tree, it 
is really grown in the nurseries and sold as a bush most fre- 
quently, and is listed by the nurseryman as white fringe. 
At Hammonton, the insects were abundant enough to in- 
jure practically every leaf on all the fringe bushes in the 
nursery. The injury first appears as a slight, whitish dis- 
coloration on the upper surface along the mid-rib, due to the 
abstraction of sap by the insect on the under surface. These 
