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Orthocephalus mutabilis (Fallen). 
The writer took 10 0’, 6 2° macropterous, 31 9? short-winged, 
June 16, 1918, Ithaca, New York, also 2 #, 21 99 on June 19 
at the same spot. This interesting species was accidentally dis- 
covered while the writer was picking wild strawberries, it being 
found breeding on the ox-eye daisy (Chrysanthemum leucanthe- 
mum L.) about seven miles west of Ithaca on the Mecklenburg 
road at an altitude of 1,200 feet. The specimens were quite 
numerous within a limited area, the leaves of the host plant show- 
ing plainly the work of the bugs. The species doubtless breeds 
on the same plant in Europe and could easily have been intro- 
duced to this country through the accidental importation of egg- 
infested plant stems used for packing or in hay. This European 
species was first recognized from two specimens taken at Orono, 
Maine, by Dr. C. W. Woods in 1913, and since that time no other 
specimens were known from America until the present find. Col- 
lecting on daisies in other regions may show the species to have a 
wider distribution than was expected. 
NOTES ON PLEOCOMA (II). 
By A. C. Davis, Pasadena, Calif. 
This season has not been a good one for Pleocoma, because the 
rains did not begin till February and were few and light at first. 
Pleocoma badia had not been taken since 1914, so I determined to 
get some more of them this spring. On the 27th of January my 
father and I went up the Mt. Wilson trail to the place where the 
beetles were first found, at about 3,500 feet elevation. I had 
never dug for them, and did not know much about collecting 
them, so I was prepared to dig down two or three feet. We 
looked for their holes as we walked up the trail, and finally came 
upon three. They were about three fourths of an inch in diame- 
ter. I dug in the first hole, and ran my trowel into a large female 
about six inches below the surface. After that I was more care- 
ful with the trowel. We continued the search, and when we 
started home we had three females and two males safely bottled. 
