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The arrangement of the families and higher groups is according to 

 Kirkaldy, with some modifications of my own in the aquatic forms. 

 For reasons into which I need not enter in detail at the moment 

 (although I may say they are based on breeding experiments and 

 observations on nymphal stages, habits, etc. ) I disagree with the pre- 

 vailing fashion of putting Hydrometra Latreille, and Mesovelia M. & 

 R. in the Gerridse sens. lat. To me these two genera are distinctly 

 more closely allied, the former to the Reduviidse and the latter to the 

 Nabidae than to the Gerridse, and I consider that they are certainly 

 entitled to family rank. They may form a passage from the one to 

 the other, but on the other hand, the differences between them are so 

 great that it is scarcely possible they do, for they apparently are isolated 

 tips of twigs in the great Reduvioid family tree. A paper on Mesovelia 

 and its structure is in preparation by Kirkaldy, and after its appearance 

 it is my purpose to go into the matter more at length. 



It will be noted that the great family Miridas (Capsidse) is 

 omitted. This is due to the fact that I do not collect this group at 

 all, except for my friends, and to them I leave the task. Other com- 

 ments and notes will be made in their proper places. The family 

 names employed, with a few exceptions, are those rendered familiar by 

 long usage, or those accepted by the more eminent of our latter-day 

 Hemipterists. This is not to be interpreted as implying disagreement 

 in toto with Kirkaldy' s views in regard to synonymy, because the only 

 reason for it is a reluctance to introduce into a faunal list any matter 

 in controversy. 



Superfamily PENTATOMOIDEA. 



(Cimicoidea Kirkaldy.) 



Family PENTATOMID^E. 



Cimicid.e Kirkaldy. 



Subfamily I. Asopin.* Schout. 1 



Tribe Asoparia Schout. 



Genus Mineus St&l. 

 i. M. strigipes H. S. 



White Plains, Sept. 7 and 13. A recently transformed adult and 



a nymph (which later gave an adult) were taken on the earlier date. 



It is figured by Schouteden (op. c. pi. 4, fig. 10). 



1 In this subfamily the arrangement is according to Schouteden (Gen. Ins., No. 52). 



