Fulica americana 465 May 29 Lake Temescal, 420 ft., Alameda Co., Calif. Develop into an egg nest. note: - The insect taken off one of the birds (VAG.108) several days ago was identified by Dr. Usinger as a member of the genus Psallus, a genus of the Hemipteran family Miridae (see Oseng, College Entomology, 1942, p. 293-94) May 31 Univ. Calif. Campus, Alameda Co., Calif. Noted this morning that all the lettuce leaves etc placed on the water sack were gone whereas those on shore still remained, that is, a few of them still remained. A tomato placed in those had been completely cleaned up except for a few pieces of skin. Lake Temescal, 420 ft. Alameda Co., Calif. O still alive, seen at L1 as I approached the S end at 12:52 p.m., 12:54 p.m. SE on nest J6.5, became off and silently vanished into the cat- tails as soon as I made my appearance. Now the ? is "pranking" from the willows at K6. One nymph is on the nest, looks dry. This nymph got out of the nest and away before I got it, but later came into the open and it is now marked R1. TMT 44 mm mid toe -26 mm FMT-18.6 mm shield - 6. mm. Both M ? and ? came out of K7 as I waded to nest J6.5. But the ? moved off pretty fast. He has a deeply incised shield, much more than SE ?.