SUBFAMILY I. — PENTATOMIN^E. 103 



reaching base of third ventral. Cheeks slightly surpassing tylus, their 

 tips incurved and almost contiguous in front of it. Pronotum with 

 humeral projection obtusely triangular; side margins armed with blunt 

 irregular teeth, those behind the sinus smaller, their tips inclined back- 

 ward; disk with numerous coarse black punctures aggregated along 

 the submargins and in the depressions of apical half; also with numer- 

 ous very irregular smooth whitish elevations. Scutellum with an obtuse 

 longitudinal median ridge, the coarse black punctures filling the depres- 

 sion of each basal angle. Female with median oblong lobe of genital 

 plate longer than the lateral lobes. Length, 15 — 17 mm. 



Crawford Co., Ind., Aug. 31. The first record for that 

 State, it being - hitherto known only from Georgia and Virginia. 

 "The short, square head, white points on elytra and imperfect 

 white points and black pits on pronotum and scutellum will dis- 

 tinguish this species." (Van Duzee) . 



62 (91). Brochymena marginella Stal, 1872, 16. 



Broadly oval, subdepressed. Head, pronotum and scutellum with 

 numerous elevated, calloused dull yellow lines or areas, between which 

 are coarse fuscous punctures, the pale areas on cheeks, middle of prono- 

 tum and sides of scutellum more or less transverse; corium and costal 

 area with smooth elevations less prominent and paler, the punctures with 

 a grayish bloom; basal two-thirds of membrane grayish-white with 

 brownish veins, apical third with veins and scattered dots fuscous; legs 

 fuscous-brown, tibiae with a broad median yellowish ring; tarsi fuscous, 

 their margins with a dense fringe of pale yellowish hairs. Joint 2 of 

 antenna? two-thirds the length of 3. Cheeks reaching and slightly over- 

 lapping tip of tylus, their lateral sinus evident and obtuse. Pronotum 

 with humeral angles obtuse, sinus shallow, scarcely evident, margins in 

 front of it with six or eight short, regular blunt teeth, behind it with 

 three or four still shorter ones. Beak reaching middle of third ventral. 

 Length, 21 mm. 



Harris County, Tex., March (Van D.). Recorded only from 

 Florida and Texas. A specimen from Florida, without definite 

 station, is in the Osborn collection. 



Tribe III. PENTATOMINI Stal, 1872c, 37. 



This tribe, as characterized under the subfamily heading 

 and in the tribal key, is represented in the eastern states by 

 no fewer than 25 nominal genera, some of them, however, 

 being very closely related. I have therefore, to shorten the 

 generic key, divided them into three groups or subtribes, each 

 one being treated in its proper sequence. 



