NABIDAE Pagasa fusca (Stein).
Barber Point, July and August, 1919.
Nabis subcoleoptratus Kirby.
June, July and August, 1917, 1919, and 1920, collected at Wana kena, Barber Point, Conifer and Plains. This predit or occurs mostly in the wingless forms and feeds largely upon the insects living on herbaceous plants. One alate individual was taken by the writer on some semiaquatic plants in the Plains.
Nabis limbatus (Fig. 27, u).
This insect is especially abundant upon rank vegetation growing in swamps, bogs and semiaquatic places. -I line, July, August and September at the Plains, Barber Point, Wanakena and Conifer.
Nabis ferns (Linnaeus).
Common, but never taken in large numbers like the preceding or two following species. This insect prefers open grassy areas and feeds largely upon grass-destroying insects. Osborn states that it is an important. enemy of the Meadow Plant-bug, Miris dolobrata, in Maine. Barber Point, Wanakena and Plains, 1919 and 1920.
Nabis roseipennis Reuter.
Very common (long- and short-winged forms) at Barber Point. Plains, Conifer and Wanakena during June, July, August and September, 1917, 1919 and 3920. Hoseipennis inhabits the deep woods, lumbered tracts, and " burns " but scents to prefer more or less open areas along trails and tote-roads. It feeds almost
entirely upon grass- and herb-inhabiting insects.
Nabis rufusculus Reuter (Fig. 27, b).
Barber Point, Conifer, Plains and Wanakena, summers of 1917, 1919 and 1920. This species, like the preceding„ is very common (both long- and short-winged forms) in the vicinity of Cranberry Lake and lives in a great variety of habitats, but seems to be more at home in the somewhat open areas along the trails and tote-roads. Numerous specimens wet:e also collected on huckleberry bushes in bogs at Barber Point and Wanakena. In the latter habitat it was also taken with N. timbatus. Eggs of ruluscidus were observed in the stems of asters (Aster macrophyllus) on crest of Crataegus Hill, Barber Point, 1920, by the writer. These asters were badly infested by aphids, a tingid and a small mirid. /Wu-sett/(s and the other species of nabids listed above are preeminently wander ing, grass- or herb- or very low shrub-inhabiting species and preys upon the insects found on these plants. They are rarely taken, and perhaps never breed, upon tall shrubs or trees.