C.W. Johnson.
A New Ptinid for New England.
Psyche 28:7, 1921.

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39211 Johnson-A New Phid for New England f" in the Oriental, one in Australia, and seven in North and Central America.' To these should be added three Oriental species of Suragina Walker, which, according to Bezzi,l is not generically distinct from Atherix. In addition, a number of fossil species have bein described from Baltic amber (Lower Oligocene) and from the Miocene shales of Florissant, Colorado.2 As suggested by Knab,3 it is by no means certain that all the species included at present in Atherix are congeneric. In this con- nection it is of considerable interest that the female of the Mexican Atherix longipes Bellardi has been reported as a fierce biter and blood-sucker, a habit unknown in the common European A. ibis and in the North American A. variegata.4- 3 Ann. Mus. Nat. Hungarici. 10, 1912, p. 446. 2 Atrichops hesperlus Cockerell, Canadian Entomologist, 46, 1914, p. 101. Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington, 14, 1912, pp. 186-187. *Knab, F. Blood-sucking and supposedly blood-sucking Leptidse. Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington, 14. 1912, pp. 108-110. A NEW PTJNID FOR NEW ENGLAND.
On November 3rd) Dr. J. Payson Clark of Boston brought to the Boston Society of Natural ist tor^ a small beetle that he was fre- quently finding in his house. I could not name it at the time, but a few days later, Mr. H. C. Fall determined it as Niptus hololeucus Hald., a European species, the only previous record for North America being Montreal, Canada.
Dr. dark continued finding a
few each week, and as late as December 27. In all, some thirty-five
specimens were obtained. 0. W. JOIINSON. SYMPETRUM CORRUPTUM IN MASSACHUSETTS.
On September 10, 1911, 1 took two males and one female of this dragonfly at the south-end of Plum Island, Ipswich, Mass. This is, I believe, the first record of this species in Massachusetts. At the same time and place I al~o secured a female of Tmmea lacerata, making the second record of that species for New England, the first having been taken at Chelsea Beach about fifty years ago, and the specimen being now in the collection of the Boston Society of Natural History. The first specimens referred to are in the Essex County collection of the Peabody Museum of Salem, Mass. A. P. MORSE.




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