34 Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society Vol.X 



Commission, 1890, referred to the insect as Dendrotettix quercus 

 Riley, MS., and quoted Bruner's description. 



In Insect Life, Vol. V, p. 254, 1893, Dr. Riley definitely de- 

 scribes the genus and species and names the long-winged form 

 Dendrotettix longipennis. This form was figured by Bruner, 

 Bull. Div. Ent. U. S. Dep. Agric, No. 28 (1893), P- i4- 



In the 1910 List of the Insects Found in New Jersey, Dendro- 

 tettix quercus is reported from Bamber, July 17, by Mr. Daecke. 

 This was said at the time to be the only record of the species in 

 the Eastern United States. 



The author found this grasshopper on August 16, 1910, about a 

 mile west of Lakewood, and in vast numbers at Ridgeway, N. J., 

 in August, 191 1. An account of this visitation and the damage 

 done to the forest trees and some of the shrubs, was given in 

 Entomological News for January, 1912. An idea of the great 

 damage wrought hy Dendrotettix at that time may be had by an 

 inspection of the plate accompanying this article. Strange to say 

 in August, 1912, not a trace of Dendrotettix could be found; there 

 were none where there had been thousands of individuals the 

 year before. 



In 1914 Mr. Frederick Schott found a female Dendrotettix at 

 Lakehurst, N. J., on July 26, and a male on August 15. 



Most of the individuals O'f this species cannot fly, but occasion- 

 ally both males and females have long wings. There are but very 

 few individuals with winsfs of an intermediate character. 



A CAPSID NEW TO OUR FAUNA. 



By Chris. E. Olsen, Maspeth, N. Y. 



Some time ago while engaged in a general housecleaning of my 

 bugs I came across in a box of unidentified material four examples 

 of what I had casually regarded as an hemipterous nymph. A 

 second look showed it to be a mature insect of short winged form. 

 Some years previously I had sent tO' Mr. Otto Heidemann a lot of 

 material among which he had picked out Pithanus maerkeli H. 



