102 FAMILY V. — PENTATOMDXE. 



60 (89). Brochymena carolinensis (Westwood), 1837, 22. 



Broadly oval, subdepressed. Above dull grayish-yellow, thickly 

 marked with numerous fuscous and blackish punctures, the blackish ones 

 much the larger and aggregated to form two dark spots on declivity of 

 pronotum and a curved line near each basal angle of scutellum, this 

 bordei-ed each side by a smooth yellow line; pronotum and scutellum with 

 a few irregular smooth yellow areas and a small one near apical fourth 

 of elytra; antennae dull brown, the incisures paler, the second joint but 

 little more than half the length of third ; under surface fuscous along 

 the sides, dull yellow at middle; legs fuscous, annulate with yellow. 

 Cheeks wide, but slightly passing tip of tylus, the anteapical sinus deep, 

 rounded, the tooth prominent; beak reaching middle of third ventral. 

 Pronotum with front of basal portion strongly declivent, humeral angles 

 subtriangular, rounded in front, unarmed or with a few blunt teeth, 

 separated from the disk by a wide shallow oblique groove; front side 

 margins curved and armed with 6 — 10 short, broad quite regular teeth. 

 Scutellum with surface more uneven than in preceding species, its cen- 

 tral ridge prominent. Osteolar tube very short, its opening oblique and 

 auricle slender. Genital plate of male very widely and deeply emar- 

 ginate, its deflexed hind margin concave at middle. Length, 14 — 18 mm.; 

 width, 9 — 11 mm. 



Sanford, Bassenger, Sarasota and Dunedin, Fla., Jan. 14 — 

 April 5 ; recorded also from numerous other localities in that 

 State. Ranges from New England and New York southwest 

 to southern Florida, but northward it is not definitely known 

 west of the Allegheny Mountains. About Dunedin it hiber- 

 nates beneath bark and in bunches of Spanish moss, and is 

 sometimes attracted by porch light. It is a broader species 

 than quadripustulata, with less projecting cheeks, longer beak, 

 more distinct median abdominal groove and more numerous 

 and regular teeth on the rounded side margins of pronotum. 

 This species has been usually known in literature as B. annulata 

 (Fabr.), but according to Van Duzee, that name was pre- 

 occupied. 



61 (90). Brochymena punctata Van Duzee, 1909, 369. 



Broadly oval, strongly depressed. Dull reddish-brown thickly 

 marked with fuscous punctures and smooth white elevations of vary- 

 ing size and shape; teeth of side margins of pronotum, oblique smooth 

 elevation at each basal angle of scutellum and middle of each con- 

 nexival and incisures, orange-red ; elytra with numerous small rounded 

 ivory-white elevations; under surface dull yellow, irregularly dotted 

 with rather large fuscous punctures; legs with brown dots. First an- 

 tennal almost reaching apex of head, second two-thirds the length of 

 third, 3 — 5 subequal. Bucculse with distinct preapical tooth. Beak 



