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specimens seen by me, though varying somewhat in degree. The 

 original description fails to make mention of this fact. 



This record from the hills of Connecticut thus marks an 

 extreme easterly extension of the known range of the species, and 

 is suggestive that a general boreal distribution may be found when 

 the dusty "brown millers" are more generally studied. 



A question of synonymy also presents itself in connection with 

 this species. Dr. Harrison G. Dyar, in Proc. Ent. Soc. of Wash. 

 VI, No. 2 p. 105, April 1904, described a Bomolocha as B. chicagonis, 

 based upon a female taken at Chicago; at the same time citing 

 another paler specimen taken in North Dakota. Here it is pointed 

 out, that the t. a. line is obsolete, as is the case in the females of 

 B. atomaria before me. A comparison of the descriptions shows 

 no specific character to distinguish B. chicagonis from B. atomaria 

 Smith ; and direct comparison of two males in the Smith collection 

 at New Brunswick bearing written labels marked "S. chicagonis 

 Dyar, June '04, Milwaukee" (the history of which I was unable to 

 discover) with the male type of B. atomaria impelled me to the 

 conclusion that they were conspecific. With this conclusion 

 Dr. Dyar writes that he is disposed to agree, though he has not 

 seen the type of B. atomaria Smith. As Dr. Smith's name has 

 priority in date of publication over chicagonis Dyar, the latter 

 must fall. 



A Curious Deformity in a Bug. 



By J. R. DE LA Torre Bueno, White Plains, N. Y. 



From time to time, all entomologists who collect extensively 

 meet with some insect abnormality more or less pronounced and 

 interesting. Some time since I came into 

 possession of a lot of insects from Central 

 Cachar, British India, collected by J. Woods- 

 Mason, which, among other rare and inter- 

 esting species contained a fine specimen of 

 Dalader acnticosta, A. & S., that curious 

 form which has the pronotum with very 

 prominent lateral angles, and which resem- 

 bles our American Chariesierus and Thasus in having the 

 3rd antennal joint foliaceously ampliated. My example, at 



