PREDACEOUS BUGS. 125 



PODISUS CYNICUS (Say). (Plate 1, fig. 7.) 



1831, Pentatoma cynica Say, Descr. New. Sp. Het. Hemip. of 



N. A., p. 3, New. Harm., Ind.* 



1851, Arma grandis Dallas, List, part I., pp. 96, 97. 

 1856, Arma grandis Fitch, 3d Rep. lus. N. Y., p. 335, pi. 2, 



fig. 7. 



1856, Anna bracteata, Fitch, ibid., p. 336. 



1857, Pentatoma cynica Fitch, 4th Rep. Ins. N. Y., p. 757 (re- 



print of Say's description). 



1859, Pentatoma cynica Say, Com pi. Writ., vol. L, p. 312. 

 1867, Podisus grandis Stal, Ofvers. Yet. Ak. Furh., p. 497. 

 1870, Podisus grandis Stal, Enum. Hemipt., part I., p. 49. 

 1870, Podisus bracteatus Stal, ibid., p. 54. 

 1870, Podisus cynicus Stal, ibid., p. 54. 



1874, Arma grandis Glover, Rep. U. S. Dep. Agr., p. 123. 



1875, Podisus cynicus Glover, Rep. U. S. Dep. Agr , p. 118, fig. 8. 



1875, Podisus cynicus Uhler, Bull. 5, vol. I., U. S. Geol. Surv. 



Terr., p. 282. 



1876, Podisus cynicus Glover, Manuscript Notes Hemip. Het., 



p. 59, pi. II., fig. 29. 

 1876, Arma bracteata Glover, ibid., p. 60. 



1876, Podisus cyniciis Uhler, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., p. 370. 



1877, Podisus cynicus Glover, Entomological Index, pp. 8, 58. 



1878, Podisus cynicus Riley, Rep. U. S. Dep. Agr., p. 245. 

 1878, Podisus cynicus Uhler, Bull. 2, vol. IY., U. S. Geol. Surv. 



Terr., p. 504. 



1882, Podisus cynicus Lintner, 1st Rep. Ins. N. Y., p. 331. 

 1884, Podisus bracteatus Lintner, Can. Ent, vol. XVI., p. 182. 

 1884, Podisus cynicus Lintner, ibid. 



1884, Podisus cynicus Uhler, Standard Nat. Hist., pp. 291, 292. 



1885, Podistis cynicus Lintner, Rep. Ent. Soc. Ont., p. 13. 

 1885, Podisus cynicus Riley, 4th Rep. U. S. Ent. Com., p 97. 

 1890, Podisus bractealus Cockerell, Can. Ent., vol. XXII., p. 59. 



1890, Podisus cynicus Lintner, Pop. Gardening, p. 198. 



1891, Podisus cynicus Lintner, 7th Rep. Ins. N. Y., p. 356 



1894, Podisus cynicus Fernald, Rep. Mass. State Bd. Agr., p. 260. 



1895, Podisus cynicus Gillette-Baker, Bull, 31, Col. Agrl. Expt. 



Station, Hemip. Col., p. 12. 



1895, Podisus bracteatus Gillette-Baker, ibid. 



1896, Podisus cynicus Kirkland, The Gypsy Moth, Forbush- 



Fernald, pp. 392, 394, 402. 



1897, Podisus cynicus Kirkland, Can. Ent., vol. XXIX., p. 115. 



Length: male, 14.6 mm. to 17.8 mm.; female, 15 mm. to 

 18.8 mm. Tawny yellow, punctured with brick red or reddish- 

 brown dots. Head longer than wide ; lateral lobes longer thau 



* This rare pamphlet is iii the library of the Boston Society of Natural History. 



