158 FAMILY V. — PENTATOMID,E. 



XVII. Vulsirea Spinola, 1840, 350. 



Large broadly oval species having the head small, porrect, 

 its apex rounded; cheeks equalling tylus, impunctate, their 

 edges thickened, reflexed, forming a cavity above tip of tylus 

 and another each side in front of eyes ; beak reaching between 

 hind coxae, its second and third joints subequal, fourth shorter 

 than either; pronotum short, very broad across the humeral 

 angles, the latter obtuse, disk with but a few scattered very 

 coarse punctures; scutellum relatively small, strongly nar- 

 rowed toward the obtusely rounded apex which passes but 

 slightly the inner apical angle of corium ; connexivum almost 

 wholly exposed; membrane slightly surpassing abdomen, its 

 veins few, forked ; under surface smooth, feebly convex. One 

 species occurs in Florida. 



106 (176). Vulsirea violacea (Fabricius), 1803, 167. 



Broadly oval, subdepressed, widest bebind the middle. Color varie- 

 gated and variable. The specimen at hand is bright red with head, an- 

 tenna?, beak, legs and pro- and meso- sterna black; a large round spot 

 behind each front angle of pronotum, an irregular cross-bar on basal 

 thirds of both pronotum and scutellum and the entire elytra blue-black; 

 connexival segments with a black bar at each end ; under surface with a 

 row of rounded spots each side, and the incisures at ends of ventrals 

 black; apex of sixth ventral and genital plate of male black. Joints 3 — 5 

 of antennae subequal, finely pubescent. Disk of pronotum uneven, strongly 

 narrowed from humeral angles to apex, its side margins evidently but 

 not strongly concave, with edges obtuse, not i*eflexed. Scutellum with 

 apical half appearing as if pinched, its center with an obtuse ridge and 

 sides flattened ; disk with but few scattered very coarse punctures. 

 Corium very finely, sparsely and irregularly punctate, the apical mar- 

 gin sinuate. Other characters as above given. Length, 18 mm. ; width, 

 10.5 mm. 



Royal Palm Park, Fla., March 15 ; one male taken while beat- 

 ing in the west end of hammock on Paradise Key. A neo- 

 tropical species occurring in Central America, Mexico and the 

 West Indies. Known in this country only from two or three 

 specimens taken at Biscayne Bay and other places in extreme 

 southern Florida. One of the largest and most handsome of 

 American Pentatomids and said to be extremely variable in 

 color. 



XVIII. Nezara Amyot & Serville, 1843, 143. 



Large, broadly oval subconvex species having the head por- 

 rect, but little longer than broad, its apex rounded; cheeks flat. 



