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FAMILY V. — PENTATOMID.E. 



longer than wide; cheeks slightly shorter than tylus; beak 

 reaching hind coxae, the second joint the longest ; antennae 

 stout, joints 1 — 2 subequal in length, much shorter than 3 — 5 

 which are subequal ; pronotum with side margins strongly con- 

 cave, the humeral angles with a prominent forward-projecting 

 spine; scutellum strongly tapering, its tip narrowly rounded; 

 membrane surpassing the abdomen, its veins simple ; outer 

 hind angles of ventral segments acute, prominent; tibiae not 

 grooved. The genus was formerly known as Ocbalus Stal, which 

 name was preoccupied. He recognized (1872, 22) four species, 

 two from Brazil, one from Cuba and the following: 



82 (117). Solubea pugnax (Fabricius), 1775, 704. 



Dull greenish- or brownish-yellow marked with fuscous punctures, 

 these so arranged as to form a vague stripe along middle of each cheek 

 and often two vague blotches on elevated basal portion of pronotum ; an- 

 tennae reddish-yellow; outer apical angle of corium with a small black 



point; under surface dull yel- 

 low, a spot at base of middle of 

 each ventral and the spiracles 

 and coarse punctures of sides of 

 abdomen fuscous; metasternal 

 plate with two small black spots 

 on its elevated rugose basal 

 half; legs yellow dotted with 

 fuscous. Head sparsely punc- 

 tate, its base almost smooth. 

 Pronotum with edges of side 

 margins roughened; disk with 

 front portion sparsely and ir- 

 regularly punctate, hind one 

 more closely and regularly so 

 with a few transverse ruga? in- 

 tervening. Scutellum and ely- 

 tra sparsely and rather finely 

 punctate. Other structural char- 

 acters as under generic heading. 

 a. (Fig. 26). 



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Fig. 



(After Hart & Malloeh). 



Length, 10 — 12 mm.; width, 4.5 — 5.5 mi 



Frequent in southern Indiana, much less so in the central 

 portion; not as yet taken from the counties north of Indian- 

 apolis; April 18 — Sept. 28. Swept from roadside herbage in 

 late spring and summer and taken from beneath cover in April. 

 It probably hibernates as an imago, one live and two dead speci- 

 mens having been found in close proximity beneath a log near 

 New Harmony, Posey County, on April 26. Dunedin, Lake- 



