In the course of my search for Miridae in Newfoundland in 1980, I collected a series of six bugs which proved to be the males of Myrmedobia exilis (Fallén), family Microphysidae. The specimens were collected by sweeping the ground cover on the east side of Gibbet Hill just west of the Information Centre (Signal Hill National Historic Park), St. John's, Newfoundland, 20 July 1980. The vegetation on the hill site consisted mainly of a dense, but short mat of heather (Calluna vulgaris (L.) Hull) intermixed with moss, clumps of grasses, and a few herbaceous plants. Thus sweeping was right along the ground. Collecting at the Signal Hill site, and generally across Newfoundland was limited by wet weather and although I spent three nights at St. John's only minimal collecting was possible.