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land and R. P. Park, Fla., Nov. 21 — April 26; frequent about 

 Dunedin where it occurs on weeds in old fields and on shrubs 

 along the margins of wet hammocks. Its known range extends 

 from Connecticut and southern New York westward on a line 

 south of central Indiana and Illinois to Colorado and south and 

 west throughout Florida to Texas, Arizona, Mexico and the 

 West Indies. Garman (1891, 61) says of its habits: 



"This is one of the commonest of the Pentatomidae in Kentucky, 

 occurring everywhere in July and August on grasses. ... In the 

 summer of 1890 it was so common on several species of Setaria and 

 Panicum that as many as 20 adults could be taken from a single stool 

 of grass. A brief examination was sufficient to show that the bugs were 

 attracted by the grasses themselves, which they were puncturing and 

 from which they were extracting the sap. They seemed especially fond 

 of the young spikelets and where the bugs were abundant, large num- 

 bers of the spikelets were found to be dried up, having been emptied of 

 their contents. 



"The eggs were placed in scattered clusters, of about a dozen eggs 

 each, on the stems of grass. Each cluster consisted of two series, the 

 eggs being in contact, but those of one series alternating in position with 

 those of the other. This arrangement of the eggs accommodates them 

 to the stems of grasses. The eggs are pale green and measure .7 mm. 

 in length by .6 mm. across, the diameter being maintained to the extrem- 

 ities. The attached end is perceptibly convex. The free end is so little 

 convex as to appear fiat; it is rimmed and provided with a marginal 

 series of capitate appendages, which are so small as not to be easily made 

 out even with a good lens." •" 



Uhler (1876, 285) says that S. pugnax "occurs at consider- 

 able altitudes on the Black Mountains of North Carolina and 

 is not unfrequent upon grassy and shrubby spots in Georgia 

 and Florida. In Maryland it may be found on low spots in the 

 meadows, where the plants and grasses grow rich and dense, 

 in June, August, September and October. It appears to lay 

 eggs in late spring and toward the latter part of summer." 



The Pentatoma augur of Say (I, 313) is a synonym of 5. 

 pugnax. 



VIII. Proxys Spinola, 1840, 325. 



Elongate-oval, subdepressed species of medium size having 

 the head porrect, long and narrow ; tylus pointed and distinctly 

 surpassing the cheeks ; antennae with basal joint stout, not 



3 "This description of the eggs shows that they are very similar to those of 

 Brochymena quadripustulata (Fabr.), as described on p. 99 and it is probable that 

 the eggs of all the Pentatomids are much alike in form and manner of deposition. 

 (W. S. B.). 



