FOREIGN INSECTS 
Specimens of the following foreign insects have been identified from 
collections made in the United States. 
Among specimens of Lepidoptera received for identification was one small 
moth, Laspeyresia coniferana Ratz, According to the associated data, this 
specimen was reared from larvae found in Pinus resinosa collected at Cross 
River, IT . • Y . , on June 27, 193** • The species -apparently lias not previously 
"been reported from the United States. (D$t. C. Heinrich) ' 
Six specimens of a weevil collected on June 1, 1935> at Bellingham, 
Wash. , have been identified as Ceutorhynchus assimilis Payk, , a European 
species not previously reported from North America. Another specimen of the 
species is at hand from Vancouver, British Columbia, having been taken on 
May 2S, 1931. (L. L. Buchanan) 
Among lee f hoppers received for identification were included specimens 
collected on mignonette at Bar Harbor, Maine, on August 25, 193^« These 
specimens have been placed as the European species Eupteryx auratus L. This 
seems to be the first record of the occurrence of this insect in North Ameri- 
ca. (P. W, Oman) 
On June 2J at Nicolaus, C^lif . , and July 5 at Puyallup, Wash., P. W. 
Oman collected specimens of a leaf hopper on cottonvood which he has- identi- 
fied as Idiocerus albicans Kbm. , apparently the first records for this species 
from North America. There has also been received for identification a single 
female of an Idiocerus , collected at Pullman, Wash., on October 13,- 1929 > which 
Mr. Oman tentatively placed as 1* fulgidus Fab. Both are European forms 
living on Populus. Mr. Oman suggests that, if the latter identification is 
correct, all the above-mentioned specimens probably represent but a' single 
species, as material in the National Collection under the name albi cans does 
not appear to be specifically distinct from that considered to be ful^jdus . 
Mr. Oman has had occasion to refer to and identify certain leafhoppers 
he collected in New England in August 19 3^ • Of these, two are well-known 
European species but apparently represent new records for North America, 
These are Ath ysanu s argentatus Fab. and Macrppsis tiliae Burm. The first is 
apparently a grass feeder, as are closely related species of the genus, while 
the second, as the name suggests, lives on Ti ll a sp. The latter species is 
commonly referred to by European workers as Pedir /rsis tiliae Burm, M. tiliae 
was collected at New Haven, Conn. , and A. a rgent;- vas in the White Mountains 
of New Hampshire, (?, W, Oman) 
First occurrence in America of the ichneumonid Bathyplectes t ristis 
(Grav.), a European parasite of the clover leaf weevil ("'^ pera punct ata Fab,), 
was recorded when two specimens, reared October 7> 1935 > at Arlington Farm, 
Va., were identified as this species. (R. A. Cushman) 
