128 FAMILY V. — PENTATOMID.-E. 



reaching end of cheeks, 2 — 5, slender, subequal ; pronotum with 

 front portion much narrowed and strongly declivent, its side 

 margins rounded, humeral angles ending in a stout subtriangu- 

 lar spine, the apex of which is bent a little downward ; scutel- 

 lum shorter than corium, its apex narrowly rounded; mem- 

 brane with veins simple, parallel ; connexivum narrowly ex- 

 posed ; osteole with a short oblique auricle, the basal half or 

 more of its supporting plate elevated and very coarsely rugose ; 

 ends of ventral segments with their hind angles acute and pro- 

 jecting backward ; tibiae not grooved. 



Stal (1872, 29) recognized four species, one from Brazil, 

 two from Nova Granada and the following: 



83 (138). Proxys punctulatus (Palisot 

 de Beauvois), 1805, 188. 



Black, opaque; antennae black or fus- 

 cous with base of joints 2 — 5 yellow; 

 scutellum with tip yellow; legs mostly 

 yellow, the apical fourth or more of 

 femora black, the tibiae with numerous 

 black spots; tarsi fuscous. Beak reach- 

 ing middle of second ventral, joints 3 and 

 4 subequal, second a little longer. Head, 

 pronotum, scutellum and thoracic pleura 

 coarsely, closely more or less confluently 

 punctate. Elytra and abdomen finely 

 .£. \ rather sparsely punctate. Length, 11 — 13 



Fig" 27. X 3%. (Original). mm -> witlth > 6.5—7 mm. (Fig. 27). 



Posey County, Ind., April 9 — Nov. 9. Taken from beneath 

 logs on sandy hillsides where they were probably hibernating. 

 Dunedin, Sanford and Ft. Myers, Fla., Feb. 9— April 9. Twenty 

 or more were found on March 6 beneath a rotton chunk near 

 the margin of an old orange grove at Dunedin. Barber records 

 it from five other localities in Florida and it probably occurs 

 throughout that State. Ranges from southern Indiana, south- 

 ern Illinois and North Carolina west to Oklahoma and south- 

 west to Texas, Mexico and Central America. Hart (1919, 189) 

 mentions it as occurring at electric light at Cairo, 111. Uhler 

 (1876, 287) records a specimen from near Philadelphia, Pa., 

 but it was probably an adventive. 



The Pentatoma tenebrosa Say (I, 304) is a synonym of punc- 

 tulatus. The Proxys albopunctulatus (P. B.), described from 



