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reaching tip of tylus, their margins sinuate ; beak reaching or 

 surpassing middle of hind coxse, its first joint as long as buc- 

 culse, second about as long as third and fourth united ; antenna? 

 slender, basal joint stout, about one-third the length of second, 

 3 — 5 subequal, each slightly longer than second ; pronotum 

 with front portion gradually declivent, its side margins 

 straight, humeri obtusely rounded ; scutellum with apical half 

 strongly tapering, the tip narrowly rounded ; membrane 

 slightly surpassing abdomen, its veins in part anastomosing; 

 connexivum rather broadly exposed ; abdomen with a low 

 obtuse median carina ; tibiae sulcate. Genital plate of male 

 broadly and deeply emarginate, the middle or base of notch 

 slightly prolonged into a short rounded lobe, behind which is a 

 subcircular concavity. 



One cosmopolitan species occurs in the eastern United States. 



107 (178). Nezara viridula (Linnaeus), 1758, 444. 



Oval, subconvex above, more convex beneath. Above clear green, 

 rarely tinged with reddish-fuscous ; narrow edge of side margins of head, 

 pronotum and sometimes of connexivum yellowish; antenna? green, the 

 fifth joint, apical two-thirds of fourth and tip of third, reddish-fuscous; 

 extreme base of scutellum with three or four small whitish calloused 

 spots, also a minute black dot on each basal angle; under surface pale 

 green, the coxae, thoracic groove and abdominal median ridge yellowish- 

 white. Entire upper surface finely and closely punctate, the pronotum 

 and scutellum with minute rugae between the punctures, giving them a 

 granulate and subopaque appearance. Thoracic pleura finely and sparsely 

 punctate, abdomen more closely and rugosely so, the median ridge smooth. 

 Structural characters as given above. Length, 14 — 17 mm.; width, 

 7 — 8.5 mm. 



Ormond, Lakeland, Moore Haven, Cape Sable, Caxambus, Ft. 

 Myers and Dunedin, Fla., Nov. 19 — April 4. About Dunedin it 

 is of frequent occurrence, especially in late autumn when it is 

 taken by sweeping soybeans, and in early spring by beating 

 foliage in or along the margins of wet hammocks. It hiber- 

 nates as imago, and several specimens taken in January were 

 strongly tinged with fuscous above and reddish beneath. Bar- 

 ber records it from a dozen or more stations in Florida in 

 addition to those given, and it doubtless occurs throughout the 

 State. Elsewhere in the United States it is recorded only from 

 Virginia, Louisiana and Texas. Bueno (1912, 316) also men- 

 tions the taking of a specimen, probably adventive, in a green- 

 house at Brooklyn, N. Y., and states that : 



