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mostly color varieties but does not state the distribution of these 
or give sufficient characterization to render them recognizable. 
Van Duzee, Canad. Entomol., XVIII, 1886, p. 209, writes: “I 
find on comparison with a lot of perhaps one hundred fully de- 
veloped examples from Kansas, that ours [from N. E. United 
States] are quite uniformly larger and more robust, with longer 
hairs on the pronotum.” I have been able to confirm: Van Duzee 
in these conclusions and believe that these northeastern forms 
should be referred to Blissus leucopterus var. hirtus Mont. 
Blissus leucopterus var. hirtus Mont. 
Blissus hirtus Montd. Ann. Soc. Entomol. Belg., XXXVII, 405, 18093. 
Described as a new species by Montandon, 18093, from a single speci- 
men from Hazleton, Pa. This particular specimen is unusual in lacking 
the piceous spot at the apex of the corium, but the other characters are 
typical of the more robust eastern form which has longer, denser and 
more tawny villosity on the pronotum. The femore are also frequently 
castaneous. At most this can only be considered a variety particularly 
common to the highlands of northeastern United States and Canada, 
where it is found in both macropterous and brachypterous conditions. 
Blissus leucopterus var. arenarius n. var. Longer and narrower than 
B. leucopterus Say, the abdomen being distinctly longer than head and 
thorax together. The antennz have the first three segments and base of 
fourth ochraceous. The villosity of the pronotum is shorter, less dense 
and grayish. The hemielytra have the membranous areas more sordid 
white; the veins limiting the clavus and those of the posterior margin 
and other parts of the corium for the most part stramineous or faintly 
tinged with brown; the apical spot is not so strongly piceous, either 
stramineous, ferrugineous or slightly embrowned. Legs ochraceous. 
Only macropterous forms known to me. 
Described from one 6 (type) and two 9’s collected by Dr. F. E. Lutz, 
of the American Museum of Natural History at Sandy Hook, N. J., 
June 30, and July 20, 1910. These were collected on a species of sand 
grass growing back of the sand dunes along the beach. One d, Coney 
Island, N. Y., Sept. 23, 1801, collected by the late Dr. J. L. Zabriskie 
(A. M. N. H.). One 2 collected by me the beach at Rockaway, Long 
Island, May 25, 1912 (my coll.). 
Blissus leucopterus var. insularis n. var. Shorter and narrower than 
the typical B. leucopterus Say. The antennz much the same in character 
and color but the terminal segment is relatively shorter. The pronotum 
deep velvety-black, anteriorly prominently silver-gray; the villosity 
shorter and sparser. Hemielytra appearing more whitish through the 
fact that the veins are not straminous but concolorous with the whitish 
