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Division TROCHALOPODA. 



Super-family CIMICOIDEA. 



Family PENTATOMID^. 



These are the "shield bugs"; medium to large-sized species as a rule, 

 rarely small, with more or less enlarged scutel covering a considerable 

 part of the upper surface. Their habits vary, some of 

 them are predatory, a few feed indifferently on plant or 

 insect tissue, the majority are plant feeders, and, as a 

 whole, to be accounted injurious. 



" * Sub-family SCUTELI,ERIN^. 



Fig. 56. A Penta- 

 tomid and its beak. 



Large, often bright-colored, very convex species in 

 which the scutel is so enormous as to cover almost the entire abdomen. 



TETYRA Fab. 



T. bipunctata H. S. Lakehurst IV-IX (div); DaCosta VI, 3 (Dke) ; 

 Browns Mills V, VI (div). Sometimes found on young shoots of old 

 pines, but is especially fond of young trees. In cold weather often 

 secretes itself among the dead needles that accumulate on the upper 

 side of the horizontal branches of pitch pine; hibernates as an adult 

 (Ds). 



STETHAULAX Bergr. 



S. marmoratus Say. Lakehurst IV-VI, IX, common on cedars (div). 



HOMCEMUS Dall. 



H. aeneifrons Say. Hewitt VII, 2, 25 (Jl); Oak Ridge VII (Shoemaker); 

 Westfield VII, 2 (Bno) ; local in distribution and limited in time 01 

 appearance. 



EURYGASTER Lap. 



E. alternatus Say. Hewitt VI-VIII (div); West Hebron VI, IX (Bno); 

 Staten Island VII (Ds); on edges of marshy meadows; often coin 

 mon. 



Sub-family GRAPHOSOMIN^. 



AMAUROCHROUS Stal. 



A. cinctipes Say. (Podops) Throughout the State all season. 



A. dubius Pal. Beauv. (Podops) Chester, Arlington (Coll); New Jer- 

 sey III (Ds). 



A. parvulus Van D. Pt. Pleasant V, on sea beach, Lakehurst V, not com 

 mon (Brb). 



