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Other slight variations like these are mentioned, and he further 
states that he saw, many years ago, in some collection, an hermaphro- 
ditic specimen from the South, iu which the wings of the left side and 
the left half of the body were female of the glaucus variety, while the 
right half was male and normally yellow, the valves being developed 
only on the right side. This was pjerhaps the same individual figured 
by VV. H. Edwards, and first described by him in the Transactions of 
the American Entomological Society (vol. n, p. UOTj. 
GENERAL NOTES. 
A NEW APPLE-TREE ENEMY. 
We have received from Mr. Samuel E. Coleman, of Virginia, a number 
'of specimens of a large Pentatomid bug (Brochymma annulata Fab.j, 
recorded by Uhler as common to the Atlantic States, which Mr. Cole- 
man says attacked the new growth of his apple trees in the month of 
Fig. 17. — Brochymeria annulata: adult; under surface shown at left — enlarged (original). 
May. pumping up sap from the tender wood, and which is known in his 
locality as the large chinch bug/' Many twigs and limbs were killed. 
We advised the kerosene-soap emulsion spray, and while we do not 
anticipate any great damage from the species, the record of the habit 
is sufficiently interesting to justify its publication. The specimens of this 
insect in the U. S. Xational Museum collection show that it occurs in 
New York. District of Columbia. Virginia, Xorth Carolina. Florida. Mis- 
souri, and Colorado. The adults have been found under old bark in mid- 
winter, and the eggs and young larva 4 have been found upon pea-vines 
