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a little darker; each segment of connexivum with a black bar across its 

 ends, the middle yellow; membrane fuscous, its tip paler; under surface 

 pale yellow, the punctures of thoracic pleura and abdomen often tinged 

 with reddish ; legs, yellow, the femora rather thickly, the tibia? more 

 sparsely, necked with black dots; front angles of ends of third to sixth 

 ventrals with a very small black dot. Cheeks slightly but evidently 

 surpassing tip of tylus; second joint of antennae very little shorter than 

 third. Pronotum with side margins in front of sinus finely, unevenly 

 crenulate; humeral angles subacute or narrowly rounded, disk of apical 

 half unevenly and sparsely punctate, of basal portion more evenly and 

 closely so. Scutellum irregularly punctate, more finely so toward apex. 

 Elytra finely, unevenly and deeply punctate. Connexivum usually broadly 

 exposed. Other characters as given under generic heading and in key. 

 Length, 12.5 — 15 mm.; width, 7 — 9 mm. 



Putnam, Crawford, Posey and Dubois counties, Ind., scarce, 

 April 4 — May 8, probably hibernated individuals. Ormond, 

 Sanford, Bassenger, Dunedin, R. P. Park and Sarasota, Fla., 

 common Nov. 19 — April 3 (W. S. B.). Recorded by Barber 

 from numerous other stations in Florida and said by Van Duzee 

 to be "common everywhere" in that State. About Dunedin 

 it occurs in winter beneath loose bark and in late autumn and 

 early spring on the flowers of various plants, especially golden- 

 rod and thistle. 



The recorded range of servus is southern, extending from 

 Massachusetts westward through southern Indiana and Illi- 

 nois to Iowa and Kansas, and south and southwest to North 

 Carolina, Florida, Louisiana, Texas and New Mexico. It has 

 been mentioned by Uhler, but probably erroneously, from Cali- 

 fornia, Dakota and Colorado. Zimmer does not include it from 

 Nebraska and Stoner records the taking of only a single speci- 

 men in Iowa. Hart (1919, 193) states that "in Illinois the 

 species appears to be much more numerous in the southern por- 

 tion, ranging from Urbana southward." Say's types were from 

 Pennsylvania and Florida. Morrill (1910, 76) says that: 



"In the vicinity of Dallas, Tex., hibernated individuals of both 

 sexes of servus are fairly common about or soon after April 1. Early 

 in the season the insects do not show any decided preference for any 

 particular food plant, but after the appearance of the bolls upon the cot- 

 ton plants comparatively few specimens are found outside the cotton 

 fields. Doubtless weeds growing in profusion along the roadsides and 

 fences furnish favorable breeding places in early summer for the bugs 

 which later turn their attention to the cotton on which, in limited areas 

 comprising only a few acres each, they have occurred in numbers suf- 

 ficient to cause the destruction of the majority of the bolls. One female 



