Dec, 1908.] Torre Bueno : Hemiptera Heteroptera. 223 



The present species, though approaching the buff or tawny olive- 

 colored fidicinium from Florida, differs from that species in color and 

 in having slim femora usually armed with spines beneath. 



Orchelimum crusculum, new species. A medium-sized, slender species, grass- 

 green in color throughout, save the nsual markings upon the occiput and disk of the 

 pronotum, which are brown and less distinct in the female. In dried specimens the 

 stridulating apparatus is sometimes slightly darkened, and the hind tibiae and tarsi 

 are usually straw-colored. The hind femora are very slim and less inflated at the base 

 than usual. The tegmina exceed the hind femora by about 3 mm., and these in turn 

 are slightly exceeded by the wings. 



Measurements. — Length of the body, male, 17 mm.; female, 17-18 mm.; of 

 pronotum, male and female, 3.5 mm.; of tegmina, male, 17 mm., female 21 mm.; 

 of hind femora, male, 14 mm., female, 15 mm.; of ovipositor, 11 mm. 



Mr. Caudell has kindly compared a male and female of crusculum 

 with material in the collection of the National Museum, and finds them 

 unlike any species there represented. 



HEMIPTERA HETEROPTERA OF WESTCHESTER 

 COUNTY, N. Y. 



J. R. de la Torre Bueno, 



White Plains, N. Y. 



In presenting to my fellow-entomologists this partial list of Hemip- 

 tera, I make no apologies. Elsewhere the value of faunal lists has 

 been dwelt upon, and I need not repeat myself here. All lists (pro- 

 vided they be accurate and fairly representative) are helps to the 

 proper knowledge of a fauna, and especially useful are those that refer 

 to regions where collecting has been utterly neglected, or where in- 

 tensive collecting has been done for some definite period. 



As far as Hemipterous records go, Westchester county is as unknown 

 as an uncharted island and might as well be a bare desert. It is my 

 present aim to make good this deficiency, even though it be only 

 partially. This list represents only two summers' collecting, devoted 

 mainly to waterbugs. 



If any there be who deem trivial such work as this, let such do con- 

 structive work before sitting in judgment. Let our New York ento- 

 mologists devote themselves to their own State instead of endlessly 

 camping on grounds already minutely and thoroughly explored. 



