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Notes on Piesma cinerea Say in New Jersey 
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NOTES ON PIESMA CINEREA SAY IN NEW JERSEY 
(HEMIPTERA). 
By Harry B. Weiss and Ralph B. Lott. 
New Brunswick, N. J. 
This species occurs throughout New Jersey being locally 
common, and according to Smith (Insects of New Jersey) on 
horse-chestnut, under the bark of Platanus, etc. It has been 
mentioned frequently in literature but very little has been re- 
corded concerning its various food plants and life history. Parsh- 
ley (Canadian Entom. Feb. 1917, p. 47) mentions its occurrence 
in ocean drift at Beach Bluff, Mass., on June 21. Osborn and 
Drake (Bull. 8, vol. 11, no. 4, p. 219) state that it is common 
throughout Ohio under the bark of sycamore and horse-chestnut 
during the winter. Summers (Bull. Agric. Exp. Sta. Tennessee, 
vol. 4, no. 3, p. 90, 1891) has observed it “so abundant on the 
young leaves and flowers of grape as to do considerable damage.” 
In the recently published “Hemiptera of Connecticut” it is listed 
from several localities and the statement is made that it is rather 
rare in the northeast. Parshley in his “Fauna of New England, 
Hemiptera-Heteroptera” (Occas. Papers Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 
vol. 7, p. 53) gives localities in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and 
Connecticut. In the “Insects of Florida” by Barber (Bull. 
American Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 33, Art. xxxi, pp. 495-535. 1914) 
it is listed from a single locality. Van Duzee (Cat. Hemip. 
America north of Mexico) lists it from Ontario, New York, 
Pennsjdvania, North Carolina, Florida, Ohio, Illinois, Kansas, 
Colorado and California and McAtee (Bull. Brooklyn Entom. 
Soc., vol. 14, p. 86, 1919) summarizes its distribution as a trans- 
continental species by giving its range as from the state of Wash- 
ington, Ontario and Massachusetts south to Texas, Florida and 
to Linares and Tampico, Mexico. 
From the foregoing it is evident that the species is common 
and widely distributed. In New Jersey we have found it feeding 
on the flower heads of rush (Scirpus atrovirens) at Monmouth 
Junction, June 17, Bound Brook, August 9 and at Dayton, 
August 1, Riverton, August 9 and Moorestown, July 25 feeding 
