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var. affinis Harr.—In all localities; common. 
ocellata Hald.—Carlisle Jc., VII—4—08 on sumac; Heckton Mills, 
V [—22—10; Harrisburg, VI—11—10, ViI—22—10. 
tripunctata Swed.—In all localities; common. 
var. myops Hald—Heckton Mills, VI—25—o8 flying; Inglenook, 
VI—21—10; Brandtsville, VI—14—10. 
var. mandarina Fab.—In all localities; common. 
gracilis Fab.—Carlisle Jc., VI—24—10; Heckton Mills, VI—21— 
09. 
ruficollis Fab.— In all localities on sumac; not rare. 
TETROPS Steph. 
jutunda Lec.—Inglenook, VI—21—10 flying. 
TETRAOPES Serv. 
canteriator Drap.— Rockville, VII—29—06 on milk-weed. 
tetraophthalmus Forst.—In all localities on milk-weed. 
DYSPHAGA Lec. 
tenuipes Hald—Harrisburg, reared from beech twigs. Found in 
the pupa stage during winter. 
Nezara viridula Linne, an Hemipteron new to the 
Northeastern United States. 
By J. R. pe ta Torre BuENo, White Plains, New York. 
Negara viridula was one of the species included by Linné in 
his comprehensive genus Cimex, in the tenth edition of the 
great Systema Naturae. Owing to its variable nature and 
world-wide distribution it has been redescribed under no less 
than twenty-one different specific names cited by Distant in 
the first volume of the Hemiptera part of the Biologia Cen- 
trali-Americana. It is recorded from the whole of Europe, 
except the extreme North, Asia, Africa, Malaysia, Australia, 
New Zealand, South America, at least in the north, Central 
America and enters into the United States at the south, being 
found in Texas and Florida; the former mentioned by Stal 
and the latter by Van Duzee. 
It has been my good fortune to come into possession of a 
specimen taken in a greenhouse in Brooklyn, on December 10, 
1g11. So far as can be ascertained, this is the first authentic 
