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swept from a grassy opening in Williams Canon at at altitude 

 of about 7000 feet. 



This is the species I identified as lateralis Fabr. in my paper 

 on the North American Pentatomidae in Trans. Amer. Ent. 

 Soc., xxx, p. 8, 1904, where I have given more fully the dif- 

 ferential characters separating this species from lateralis. 



During the four years which have elapsed since the publica- 

 tion of the paper referred to above I have examined carefully 

 a long series of both this species and lateralis Fabr. from most 

 all parts of the United States and have as a consequence found 

 myself obliged to change my views regarding the identity of 

 these forms. I am convinced that the species I described as 

 gilletti in 1904 is the true lateralis Fabr., and that it is dis- 

 tributed throughout the eastern United States from Massachu- 

 setts to southern Florida and southwestwardly to Texas and 

 Mexico. My montanus seems to be confined entirely to the 

 Rocky Mountain region and the far northwest. From the de- 

 scription of Fabricius alone it would be difficult to decide 

 which of these species he intended to describe, but their geo- 

 graphical distribution would seem to preclude my former de- 

 termination. 



Sephina grayi n. sp. 



Allied to dorsalis and gundlacki, but nearer to the former in most of 

 its characters. Color testaceous yellow, perhaps inclined to orange in 

 life, marked with black. Head black above and before, with a fulvous 

 dot between the antennae and an oblique yellow line interior to each eye 

 connecting anteriorly with the yellow inferior surface. Antennae black, 

 yellowish pubescent ; first, second and fourth joints subequal in length, 

 tnird shorter. Rostrum black, attaining the anterior line of the interme- 

 diate coxae. Pronotum with a large semicircular basal spot, and the 

 humeral angles minutely black. Scutellum, elytral membrane and legs 

 entirely, including the coxae, black. Propleura with a round black spot 

 placed anteriorly ; meso- and metapleura with a large lateral black spot 

 and a smaller one between the coxae, those on the mesopleura connec- 

 ted anteriorly. Connexivum alternated with black above and below. 

 Venter marked with a broad black vitta on either side behind the first 

 segment, these vittae deeply eroded within on the hind margin of each 

 segment, this yellow margin narrowest on the fourth and fifth segments 

 where the included median yellow vitta is narrow ; genital segment 

 mostly black. Valves of the female of equal length ; apex of the male 

 genital segment broadly and regularly arcuated. Length 16-18 mm.; 

 width across the humeri 6 mm. 





