100 FAMILY V. — PENTATOMID,*:. 



57 (84). Brochymena myops Stal, 1872, 16. 



Broadly oval, subdepressed. Above dull grayish-yellow, marked with 

 numerous very coarse black punctures, these in part aggregated on pro- 

 notum to form four ill-defined black stripes separated by narrow, smooth 

 or sparsely punctate, ivory-white lines or spaces, the median one of 

 which is much the broader; scutellum with three vague irregular ivory- 

 white stripes bordered by black punctures, these white markings in ad- 

 dition to those mentioned in key; cheeks and tylus each with an irregular, 

 median yellowish-white line, these continued back onto occiput; basal 

 part of costal border of elytra in great part ivory-white; connexivum 

 mostly black, the narrow outer edge and a spot at middle of each seg- 

 ment pale; under surface piceous, paler along the middle, the thoracic 

 pleura with scattered pale dots; legs black or piceous, the middle of each 

 tibia? broadly white. Cheeks slightly surpassing tylus, their tips acute, 

 the outer apical sinus and tooth very obtuse. Antennae black, joints 

 2 — 5 subequal, or the second a little shorter. Beak reaching middle of 

 third ventral. Pronotum with front margin of humeral projections 

 obliquely subtruncate, their apex obtuse; side margins in front of sinus 

 as in key, either coarsely crenulate or bearing 6 — 8 short, even blunt 

 teeth; disk very uneven, the median lengthwise impression broader and 

 deeper than in any of our other species. Scutellum relatively long and 

 narrow, its apex narrowly rounded. Elytra with punctures much smaller 

 than those of pronotum, irregularly placed and in part aggregated thus 

 giving the surface a mottled appearance. Osteole with both tube and 

 auricle very short, not surrounded by a smooth paler area. Abdomen 

 with median groove reaching sixth ventral. Female with last dorsal 

 squarely truncate. Length, 18 — 22 mm.; width, 9.5 — 11 mm. 



Raleigh, N. Car., February — April ; ''rather common and hi- 

 bernating under the bark of dead dry pines" (Brimley Ms.). 

 Ranges from North Carolina to Texas and Mexico ; not as yet 

 recorded from Florida, but probably occurs in the northern 

 portion of that State. Stal's types were from New Orleans and 

 Mexico and his description very insufficient. It is one of the 

 largest and the most strikingly colored of our Brochymenas, and 

 is more closely related to cariosa and carolinensis than to quad- 

 ripustnlata. 



58 (88). Brochymena cariosa Stal, 1872, 17. 



Broadly oval, subdepressed. Above blackish, feebly shining, the 

 pronotum and scutellum thickly marked with intermixed coarse and fine 

 punctures, also with numerous smooth elevated more or less reticulated 

 yellow spaces, these in part aggregated to form an irregular median 

 stripe and two spots on pronotum, an irregular spot near base of each 

 elytron and another near apex of scutellum; antennae piceous, the in- 

 cisures pale; under surface with sides black, the middle dull yellow, more 

 or less mottled with black, the narrow edge of metapleura and a spot at 



