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Of the numerous species of Leptostyla mentioned in the Biologia Cen- 

 t'rali-Americana, L. heidemanni need be contrasted only with gracilenta 

 and angMstata. Both of these species have the subcostal area biseriate, 

 while heidemanni has from three to four series of areoles in this division 

 of the hemelytron ; furthermore, those species have two series of full- 

 sized areoles in the costal area instead of one series of large and one of 

 small cells. 



Leptostyla heidemanni is extremely common about Washing- 

 ton, D. C, on its food plant Baptisia tinctoria L., which is not 

 only often, but usually, severely injured by the feeding operations 

 of these little Tingids. Other localities represented by the ma- 

 terial examined are: Forest Hills and Springfield, Mass., New 

 Jersey, and Shreveport, La. Mr. Heidemann's cabinet name for 

 this species was L. affinis; I have also seen the name similis on 

 some specimens. 



STUDIES IN THE OLD TESTAMENT. 



By R. p. Dow, Brooklyn, N. Y. 



Before considering each insect in the order of its mention in 

 the Old Testament, it might give a better understanding if the 

 order of creatioh as given in Genesis is compared with the order 

 assumed by modern science to be the correct one. Our evolu- 

 tionary theories are less than a century old. The writers of the 

 Pentateuch may have been ignorant of the nature of the world 

 as a component of the universe, and may have been filled with 

 the wisdom of ages since forgotten. But that does not figure in 

 the Book, the allegory, and the. imagery of which is always 

 graphic. The progress of creation is given day by day, the verbal 

 order not agreeing with the correct sequence of time. Genesis I : 

 II narrates that on the third day came grass, the herb yielding 

 seed, the fruit tree reproducing itself. On a day following the 

 moon and the stars were placed in the heavens. Well, what of it? 

 None of the greatest philosophers of Greece or Rome had prog- 

 ressed sufficiently to have an improved order in his mind. Dur- 

 ing the present century the head of the great Arab University in 

 Cairo was asked whether the earth revolved around the sun or 



