674 CONNECTICUT GEOL. AND NAT. HIST. SURVEY. [Bull. 



1904 (P. L. B.) ; Branford, 27 June, 1904 (H. L. V.) ; Cheshire, 8 July, 

 1904 (H. L. V.); Hartford, 19 Oct., 1904 (W. E. B.), 7 May, 1914 

 (W. M.) ; Windsor, 18 July, 1904 (B. H. W.) ; Lyme, 4 Dec, 1910 

 (A. B. C.) ; Portland, 31 May, 1915 (F. W. Haasis) ; Yalesville, 25 June, 

 1917 (M. P. Z.); Suffield, 21 May, 1917 (M. P. Z.) ; Cornwall, 28 Nov., 

 1919 (K. F. C). 

 N. (N.) roseipennis Reuter. 



Ofv. Vet. Akad. Forh., xxix, 89, 1872. 



Commonly taken in sweeping; long- and short-winged forms 

 are frequently met with, the latter having hemielytra which are 

 about as long as the abdomen. 



Branford, 17 July, 1905 (H. W. W.) ; Milford, 12 June, 1918 (M. P. Z.) ; 

 Colebrook, 19 June, 1920 (P. G.) ; Cornwall, 25 May, 1920 (K. F. C.) ; 

 North Haven, 4 Sept., 1921 (B. H. W.) ; Killingworth, 2"j June, 1920 

 (W. E. B.) ; Danbury, 15 June, 1909 (C. W. J.) ; So. Meriden, 6 May, 191 5 

 (H. L. J.) ; Litchfield, 9 March, 1913 (L. B. W.) ; Winnipauk, 16 June, 

 1909 (C. W. J.). 



N. (N.) rufusculus Reuter. 



Ofv. Vet. Akad. Forh., xxix, 92, 1872. 



A common pale yellowish or reddish brown species, which is 

 rarely found in the long-winged condition. 



So. Kent, 20 Aug., 1894 (A. P. M.) ; Danbury, 15 June, 1909 (C. W. J.) 

 Litchfield, 7 May, 1915 (L. B. W.) ; North Branford, 5 July, 1921 (P. G.) 

 Salisbury, 20 Aug., 1921 (P. G.) ; Hamden, 11 June, 1921 (B. H. W.) 

 Portland, 31 May, 1915 (F. W. Haasis) ; Suffield, 21 May, 1917 (M. P. Z.). 



N. (N.) inscriptus Kirby. 



Richardson's Fauna Bor. Am., iv, 280, pi. 6, fig. 7, 1837. 

 This species remains uncertain and I have seen no specimens 

 which agree with Reuter's redescription. 



Metatropiphorus Reuter. 



This genus contains a single species of elongate form. It has 

 the first antennal segment about twice as long as the head ; second 

 rostral segment much longer than the third ; pronotum strongly 

 constricted behind middle ; membrane with several veins, mostly 

 simple, not forming discal cells. 

 M. belfragii Reuter. 



Ofv. Vet. Akad. Forh., xxix, 93, 1872. 



A slender grayish brown species, with darker markings and 

 brown apical bands on femora and tibiae. It has been found very 

 rarely, in Massachusetts and New York. Length 6.5-7 mm - 



Family MESOVELIIDAE. 



By J. R. DE LA ToRRE-BlJENO. 



There are only two genera in this family. Mesovelia is world- 

 wide in distribution. The other is Papuan. 



