SUBFAMILY I. — PENTATOMINiE. 



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32, X 3. (After Lugger), 



the spiracles and tips of apical angles 

 of ventral segments black. Head very 

 wide, slightly concave, its apex broadly 

 rounded. Beak not passing middle coxae. 

 Pronotum with side margins faintly 

 but evidently curved, the humeri broad, 

 obtusely rounded; disk finely and closely 

 punctate, with short, minute oblique 

 rugae-intervening. Scutellum more ir- 

 regularly punctate, the rugs on basal 

 half more distinct. Elytra alutaceous, 

 finely, evenly and shallowly punctate. 

 Abdomen without a median ridge, finely 

 and rugosely punctate. Apex of genital 

 plate of male slightly concave and with 

 a small but distinct median notch. 

 Length, 13.5—14.5 mm.; width, 9—9.5 

 mm. (Fig. 32). 



Starke Co., Ind., June 17; Ormond and Dunedin, Fla., Nov. 

 16 — April 15. In Florida it was beaten from juniper, has been 

 recorded from several stations between Jacksonville and Lake 

 Okeechobee, and probably occurs sparingly throughout the 

 State. Its known range extends from Quebec and New Eng- 

 land west to Iowa and south to Georgia, Florida (and Pan- 

 ama?), but everywhere so far reported it appears to be scarce 

 in numbers. Uhler mentions it twice (1871, 1878) from Pan- 

 ama, but there are no records between there and Georgia, 

 where Say's type of Pentatoma abrupta, a synonym, was obtained. 

 Nothing regarding its food plants has been recorded, though 

 Banks has taken it on Jersey-tea, Ceanothus. According to 

 Parshley (1923, 767) only three specimens are known from 

 New England. 



109 (181). Acrosternum hilare (Say), 1831, 5; I, 304, 316. 



Elongate-oval, tapering from humeri to apex, the latter narrowly 

 rounded. Green, shining, narrow edge of side margins of head, prono- 

 tum and connexivum pale yellow or reddish-yellow; antennae green, 

 joints 2 — 5 subequal, the tip of third and apical half of fourth blackish, 

 fifth pale at base, then blackish, the tip reddish; membrane pale hyaline; 

 under surface green, its middle dull yellow; spiracles pale brownish; 

 hind angles of ends of ventral segments black. Head as broad across 

 the eyes as long, its apex broadly rounded; cheeks flat, finely and 

 closely rugose, the rugae enclosing minute punctures; beak reaching 

 middle of hind coxae. Pronotum with front portion moderately decliv- 

 ent, its sides straight, humeri rounded, disk with numerous fine trans- 



