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PODISUS SEEIEVENTRIS Uhler. (Plate 1, %. 2.) 



1870, Podisus serieventris Uhler, Prou. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., p. 94. 

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

 1892, Podisus spinoszts~Fernald, Rep. Mass. State Bd. Agr., p. 298. ' 

 1892, Podisus spinosus Fernakl, Bull. 19, Mass. Hatch Expt. 



Station, p. 116. 

 1892, Podisus spinosus Riley-Howard, Insect Life, vol. IV., p. 354. 



1894, Podisus serieventris Fernald, Rep. Mass. State Bd. Agr., 



p. 260. 



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



Expt. Station, Heniipt. Col., p. 13. 



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



Fernald, pp. 393-403. 



1897, Podisus serieventris Kirkland, Can. Ent., vol. XXIX., 



p. 115. 



Length: male, 10-11 mm.; female, 11-12 mm. Upper-surface 

 pale yellowish, heavily punctate with dark brown. Head trun- 

 cate anteriorly, densely punctate on its anterior part. Eyes dark 

 brown ; ocelli minute, reddish, in rear of eyes. First segment of 

 antennae short, blackish outwardly, scarcely projecting beyond the 

 lateral margin of head ; second segment spread over with black, 

 slender, dilated at apex, about four times as long as first ; third 

 segment a little over half as long as second ; fourth segment two- 

 thirds as long as second, and with the third generally spread over 

 with black ; fifth segment a little longer than fourth, reddish 

 brown. Rostrum of medium thickness, reaching to hind coxas ; 

 the first, third and fourth segments of nearly equal length, the 

 second the longest, reaching to posterior margin of fore coxae. 

 Prouotum finely toothed anteriorly, indented laterally, but not as 

 much as in modestus. The punctures are massed at the anterior 

 and humeral angles into four blackish spots. Humeral angles 

 acute, but not spiuose, often slightly curved backward ; on the 

 pronotum of many specimens there are fine transverse wrinkles. 

 Scutellum of same color as pronotum, less densely punctate at 

 tip, which is sometimes whitish ; at the basal angles in some 

 specimens there is a small bald whitish spot. Coriuin more 

 densely punctate than embolium ; membrane bronzed, with a dark 

 spot at the tip. Under-surface pale yellowish, marked and 

 clouded with darker shades and sparingly punctate with reddish ; 

 on the middle of the last segment there is a round or oval black 

 spot, above which in a longitudinal row there are often three 

 minute black spots ; laterally there are two rows of small black 

 spots, occurring as follows : one on the middle of each segment, 

 near conuexivuni, and one on the anterior margin of the third to 



