PREDACEOUS BUGS. 135 



lineaia Say (Glover, Rep. U. S. Dep. Agr., 1866, p. 43, and 

 many other writers), Galerucella luteola Mull (Riley, Rep. 

 U. S. Dep. Agr., 1892, p. 167), Pier is rapce Linn. (Murt- 

 feldt, Rep. U. S. Dep. Agr., 1884, p. 417), Ht/pliantrin c tinea 

 Drury (Walsh, Amer. Ent., vol. I., 1869, p. 59), Orgyia 

 leucostigma S. and A. (Howard, Bull. 5, Tech. Ser., 1897, 

 p. S), Carneades scandens Riley (Riley, First Rep. Ins. Mo., 

 1869, p. 77), Aletia argillacea Hhn. (Comstock, Rep. U. S. 

 Dep. Agr., 1879, p. 289), Caccecia fervidana Clem. (Pack- 

 ard, Fifth Rep. U. S. Ent. Com., 1890, p. 194), Carpocap*<i 

 pomonella Linn. (Le Baron, 3d, Rep Ins. 111., 1873, p. 184), 

 Gymnonychus appendiculatus Hartig (Glover, Rep. U. S. 

 Dep. Agr., 1875, p. 118), Selandria barda Say (Osborn, 

 Can. Ent., 1884, p. 151). 



Telenomus podisi Ashm. (Ashmead, Proctotrypidre, 1893, 

 p. 159) and Trissolcus podisi Ashm. (ibid., p. 163) have been 

 reared from the eggs of P. spinosus. 



PODISUS ACUTISSIMUS Stal. (Plate 1, fig. 5.) 



1870, Podisus (Tylospilus) acutissimus Stal, Enum. Heniipt., 



part L, p. 53. 

 1875, Tylospilus acutissimus Uhler, Bull. 5, vol. I., IT. S. Geol. 



Surv. Terr., p. 283. 

 1880, Podisus acutissiimis Distant, Biol. Cent. Am. Rhync., vol. 



I., pp. 40, 41, pi. II., fig. 22. 

 1895, Podisus acutissimus Gillette-Baker, Bull. 31, Col. Agrl. 



Expt. Station, Heniipt. Col., p. 12. 



Length, 9 mm. Very pale olive yellow, heavily punctate with 

 dark brown on posterior part of pronotum and lower part of 

 scutellum. Head somewhat narrowed anteriorly. Tylus longer 

 than lateral lobes, which are obliquely rounded and margined 

 with dark brown at their outer ends. Between the dark-brown 

 eyes and extending backward to the pronotum are two longi- 

 tudinal dark-brown markings. First segment of antennae small, 

 scarcely projecting beyond the lateral margin of head, pale yel- 

 low, darkened outwardly ; second segment of antennae slender, 

 dark brown ; third segment three-fourths as long as second, red- 

 dish yellow, dark brown at base ; fourth segment as long as third, 

 testaceous ; fifth segment two-thirds as long as fourth, testaceous, 

 darker toward the apex. Rostrum slender, reaching upon middle 

 coxae ; the second segment scarcely reaching the fore coxae, pale 

 amber colored. 



