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cultural Experiment Station fW. E. Brittonj; IVIaine Agricultural 

 Experiment Station (E. M. Patchj ; Massachusetts Agricultural 

 College (H. T. Fernaldj; Museum of Comparative Zoology (S. 

 Hensha'R' and X. Banks); XeT\- Hampshire Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Station (V\'. C. O'Kane;; Pihode Island State College (J. 

 Barlow); Wellesley College (X. P. Morse;; and m.any private 

 cabinets the o^mers of which are mentioned in the appended list of 

 collectors. 



It is a great pleasure to take this opportunity of expressing my 

 especial sense of obligation to Charles "\Y. Johnson. His unusual 

 success as a collector, intimate knovrledge of our region and its 

 fauna, and stimulating ad^'ice have been of the very greatest 

 assistance in the present undertaking; his unfailing enthusiasm 

 and genial nature have made our frequent consultations a constant 

 source of enjo;yTnent, — truly a rare and ^-alued friend I 



Analysis of the data presented in the following pages brings out 

 much of general interest, which may now be summarized in part. 



Faitxal Zoxes. 



The lack of exact knowledge bearing on the distribution of the 

 Hemiptera in British America and many parts of the United States 

 seriously interferes with detailed speculation on the origin and 

 nature of the New England fauna, but the facts at hand seem 

 sufficient to warrant a few obser^^-ations relative to this subject. 



As observed by Scudder in his distributional studies on Lepi- 

 doptera,^ the southern shore of New England as far north as Cape 

 Cod exhibits marked Upper Austral characteristics, a conclusion 

 borne out by the work of many subsequent writers on the fauna 

 and flora of the region. The present investigation fmnishes 

 fiu-ther e^-idence in support of this \-iew, as I am able to record the 

 disco^■ery within this area of such characteristically southern 

 Hemipterous species as Soluhea pugnax, Corizus hyalinus, Meso- 

 miris curtulus, and Garganus fiisiformis. 2Ia.crotracheIieUa -nigra 



> Scudder, S. H. The Butterflies of the Eastern United States and Canada, 

 Cambridge, 1889, vol. 1, p. 89 et geq. 



