170 FAMILY V. — PENTATOMID^E. 



117 (190). Piezodorus guildinii (Westwood) , 1837, 31. 



Elongate-oval, subconvex. Above uniform pale greenish-yellow, fad- 

 ing to dull yellow, the hind portion of pronotum, when fresh, usually 

 purplish-red or brownish; antennae yellow, the last two joints tinged 

 with reddish; tip of clavus with a small fuscous point; under surface 

 and legs dull greenish-yellow, spiracles black. Head short, wider across 

 the eyes than long, its apex broadly rounded; cheeks flat, equalling 

 tylus, finely, closely, confidently punctate; beak slightly passing middle 

 coxa?. Pronotum with front portion strongly declivent, side margins 

 straight, humeri obtusely rounded ; disk finely, unevenly, sparsely punc- 

 tate. Scutellum rather short, broad, evenly tapering from the base, its 

 disk finely, evenly, not closely punctate. Elytra similarly punctate; 

 connexivum more finely and closely so. Thoracic pleura coarsely, 

 rugosely punctate; abdomen more finely, aciculate-punctate, its middle 

 almost smooth. Genital plate of male convex at middle, depressed each 

 side, its hind margin rounded, with a broad, very shallow concavity at 

 middle. Length, 9.5 — 11.5 mm.; width, 5 — 6 mm. 



Ormond, Lakeland, Dunedin and Sarasota, Fla., Nov. 19 — 

 April 15 (W.S.B.). Punta Gorda, Fla., Nov. 11 (Davis). 

 Barber lists three additional stations and it probably occurs 

 sparingly throughout the State. It is a neotropical species, 

 recorded in this country only from Georgia, Florida and New 

 Mexico. About Dunedin it occurs frequently in late autumn 

 and early spring on tall weeds and low shrubs along the borders 

 of orange groves and in open pine woods. When fully colored 

 it is a very handsome insect, resembling Banasa calva closely in 

 size, form and hue. One specimen from Dunedin has the side 

 margins of pronotum, connexivum and basal half of corium 

 narrowly edged with carmine-red. Cabinet specimens soon 

 fade to a nearly uniform dull yellow. Van Duzee (1907, 10) 

 states that in Jamaica he "swept numbers of this insect from 

 rank weeds along the roadsides. All of them have the base of 

 pronotum blackish, bordered before by a pale calloused band. 

 In none is the rufous band more than indicated." 



118 (191). Piezodorus lituratus (Fabricius), 1794, 114. 



Form of guildinii but averaging larger. Above dark greenish-yellow 

 the basal portion of pronotum, margins of apical third of scutellum and 

 inner field of elytra purplish-red shading to chestnut-brown; tergum 

 black, the edge of connexivum red or yellow; under surface dull greenish- 

 yellow; legs of the same hue, the apical halves of the femora shading to 

 piceous; abdomen often with an oblique dark stripe each side near middle 

 of second and third ventrals. Head much as in guildinii. Pronotum 

 less declivent in front, with disk more coarsely, evenly and closely punc- 



