SUBFAMILY I. — PENTATOMIN^E. 171 



tate. Sculpture and structure otherwise as in guildinii. Length, 11.5 — 

 12.5 mm.; width, 6 — 6.5 mm. 



Ormond, Fla., April 15 (W. S.B.). A European species 

 known in this country only from Florida, Van Duzee (1904, 61) 

 having recorded it from Jacksonville. The single female at 

 hand has the entire hind portion of pronotum a deep purplish- 

 red and the edge of connexivum of the same hue instead of 

 the usual pale yellow. 



XXII. Arvelius Spinola, 1840, 344. 



Rather large, elongate-oval, convex species having the head 

 feebly declivent, longer than wide ; cheeks narrow, much long- 

 er than tylus, acutely pointed, their outer margins straight and 

 inflexed, the inner one thickened, thus forming a median 

 groove ; beak slender, reaching base of fourth ventral, its sec- 

 ond and third joints subequal, fourth shorter; antennae slender, 

 joints 3 — 5 subequal, second slightly shorter; pronotum short 

 and wide, its front half strongly declivent, side margins cre- 

 nate, broadly concave, humeri ending in a pair of very promi- 

 nent, upward and outward projecting spines ; scutellum strong- 

 ly tapering, its tip narrowly rounded ; membrane reaching tip 

 of abdomen, its veins numerous, simple ; connexivum narrowly 

 exposed ; mesosternum with a prominent median carina, this 

 prolonged forward between the front coxae and backward be- 

 tween the hind ones, where it is notched at the end to receive 

 the tip of the prominent ventral spine ; abdomen with a 

 rounded median keel ; ventral segments with hind angles acute, 

 those of sixth prolonged as spines ; osteolar opening with 

 auricle prominent, more than half the length of the tube. 



One neotropical species occurs along the southern border of 

 the United States. 



119 (192). Arvelius albopunctatus (De Geer), 1773, 331. 



Dull greenish-yellow, marked above with a few large, very widely 

 scattered metallic blue or green punctures; cheeks edged with black; 

 pronotum often with an irregular yellowish-white band between the bases 

 of the humeri ; elytra with a number of small calloused ivory-white spots ; 

 spines of pronotum and tip of scutellum yellow; under surface and legs 

 greenish-yellow; middle of abdomen pale yellow; marginal ventral in- 

 cisures with a black point. Disk of cheeks with very fine transverse 

 wrinkles. Pronotum alutaceous and with numerous minute scattered 

 punctures in addition to the large blue ones, the latter in great part 

 aggregated near the front angles. Scutellum and elytra more coarsely, 



