PREDACEOUS BUGS. 137 



PODISUS MUCRONATUS Uhler. (Plate 1, fig. 9.) 

 1897, Podisus mucronatus Uhler, Trans. Md. Acad. Sc., pp. 386, 387. 



Length, 9 mm. Head rounded anteriorly, the lateral lobes not 

 extending beyond tylus. General color testaceous, with dark- 

 brown punctures arranged in longitudinal series. First segment 

 of auteunje projecting slightly beyond the lateral margin of head ; 

 second segment pale amber colored, slender, two-thirds as long 

 as head ; third segment two-thirds as long as second, darkened 

 toward apex ; fourth and fifth segments of nearly equal length, pale 

 brown, each three-fourths as long as second. Rostrum of medium 

 size, reaching to hind COXJB. Pronotum ivory yellow, sparingly 

 punctate with brown, and bordered on its anterior lateral margins 

 with pale yellow. Humeral angles produced into slender dark- 

 brown spines, which curve sharply toward the head. Scutellum 

 ivory yellow, very sparsely punctate with brown, and with a large 

 bald spot at the tip and a smaller bald spot in each basal angle. 

 Coriuni sanguineous, thinly punctate with brown. Membrane 

 dark bronze colored. Under-surface sulphur yellow, tinged later- 

 ally with reddish, with scattering pale-brown punctures anteriorly. 

 Ventral spine slender, acute, reaching upon hind coxae. Legs 

 pale amber colored. 



Distribution. Florida, Cuba. 



Prof. P. R. Uhler, to whom I am indebted for many 

 favors in connection with the preparation of this paper, has 

 very kindly given me an opportunity to examine this inter- 

 esting species. 



