166 FAMILY V. — PENTATOMIDvE. 



tate; elytra much more sparsely and less evenly punctate than there. 

 Length, 9 — 12 mm.; width, 5 — 6 mm. 



Sanford, Istokpoga, Moore Haven, R. P. Park and Dunedin, 

 Fla., Nov. 27 — March 7. Recorded also from Crescent City, 

 Jacksonville, Lakeland and Silver Springs, that State. De- 

 scribed from Grenada and known in the United States only 

 from Florida. About Dunedin it occurs sparingly in late 

 autumn and early spring on huckleberry and other shrubs, 

 especially the tall Ericad, Xolisma ferruginea (Walt.), while at 

 R. P. Park it was common in December on foliage along the 

 pathways of the dense hammock on Paradise Key. 



113 (184). Banasa calva (Say), 1831, 7; I, 318. 



Form of dimidiata, but slightly larger and a little more narrowed 

 from the humeri backward. Color paler, the green more tinged with yel- 

 low, but the pronotum with the same contrasting hues between the front 

 and hind portions; antennae with joints 4 and 5 reddish, the others 

 greenish-yellow, the second about three-fourths the length of third; con- 

 nexivum and apex of scutellum grayish-yellow; under surface and legs 

 pale greenish-yellow, the abdomen sprinkled with reddish dots, its sides 

 often with vague fuscous blotches. Head slightly longer than wide, 

 feebly narrowed toward apex, both cheeks and tylus finely and very 

 sparsely punctate, beak reaching middle of second ventral. Pronotum 

 with front portion strongly declivent, its disk finely, very sparsely and 

 unevenly punctate; humeri obtusely rounded; disk of hind portion and 

 that of scutellum finely and more evenly but sparsely punctate. Elytra 

 more closely and regularly punctate, the corium with a few small cal- 

 loused smooth areas. Abdomen almost smooth ; thoracic pleura rather 

 coarsely and sparsely punctate. Genital plate of male with hind margin 

 deflexed, widely and deeply emarginate. Length, 11.5 — 12 mm.; width, 

 6 mm. 



Hamburg, N. Y., Sept. 27 (Van Dusee). Grand Tower, 111., 

 July 12 (Hart). Not as yet noted in Indiana. Ranges from 

 Ontario and New England west to British Columbia and Oregon 

 and south to North Carolina and Georgia. The larger size, 

 with head more narrowed in front, longer second antennal joint 

 and black points on ventral incisures are the principal char- 

 acters separating this species from dimidiata, to which it is 

 closely related. Fresh specimens are among the most brilliant 

 of our eastern Pentatomids, the greenish or yellow of the head 

 and front of pronotum contrasting strongly with the vinous- 

 red of the hind portion and the scutellum. Say's types were 

 from Virginia, and were taken on holly, while the types of 



