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Island, Mass., which agrees in all respects with those submitted by 
Dr. Patch. I have here three specimens which are probably the 
true torquata, which was described from Kansas. These speci- 
mens were taken in western Kansas by Dr. Popenoe. The fact 
that the Maine species feeds upon low blueberry exclusively, a 
plant which does not extend its range into Kansas, appears to me 
sufficient evidence that the eastern species is different from tor- 
quata. I assume therefore that we have in the blueberry species 
(an unnamed form and propose for it the name. sylvia. 
The species I take to be the true torquata is much more coarsely 
punctured and has a much shallower transverse incision on the 
pronotum than sylvia. a) 
There is i our collection a third species of very similar ap- 
pearance from Arizona which has done duty as carmata Melsh., 
but which is almost unquestionably not that species. 
We have a series of specimens labelled subplicata Leconte in 
the Bolter collection. These specimens are much less distinctly 
shining that bimarginata Say, and in my opinion represent a dis- 
tinct species. The hypopygium of the male I have dissected is 
similar to that of bimarginata, but is entirely smooth both dor- 
sally and ventrally, whereas in bimarginata it is transversely fur- 
rowed as in chalybea Illiger. Probably by rearing the two forms 
light would be shed on the specific identities. 
VIRGINIA HETEROPTERA. 
By J. R. DE LA Torre-BuENO, White Plains, N. Y. 
A business trip took me in August of 1918 to the extreme 
southwest corner of Virginia. Between whiles, I collected. Pu- 
laski is at an elevation of 2,100 feet; and Gossan is a mining set- 
tlement about two miles from Monarat P. O., which in turn is 40 
miles from Pulaski, and among the Blue Ridge Mountains at 
2,800 feet above sea level. Of the 17 species taken, as noted 
further on, 9 are not recorded from Virginia by Van Duzee in 
his Catalogue, our most recent authoritative record. The species, 
arranged according to the same authority for the sake of con- 
