172 FAMILY V. — PENTATOMID^E. 



somewha.t rugosely punctate. Other structural characters as above 

 given. Length, 14 — 16 mm.; width, 9 — 10 mm. 



One taken at Miami, Fla., March 11, while beating vines on 

 margin of the Brickell hammock ; another adult and nymph at 

 R. P. Park, April 8, by sweeping herbage along a ditch ( W. S. 

 H.). Key West, Fla., Sept. 17 (Davis). Recorded also from 

 Crescent City, Biscayne Bay and Miami, Fla., and known in the 

 United States outside of Florida only from Texas, Arizona and 

 California. Occurs in Mexico and South and Central America. 

 A large, handsome and easily recognized species. 



XXIII. Neopharnus Van Duzee, 1910, 73. 



Medium sized species having the cheeks broad, deeply sinuate 

 in front of eyes, their tips rounded, approaching and almost 

 contiguous at apex above and beyond the tip of the narrow 

 tylus ; beak reaching apex of third ventral ; front of pronotum 

 quite strongly declivent, its side margins eroded and armed 

 with four or five filamentous teeth, those at front angles reach- 

 ing to front of eyes ; humeri produced in an outwardly project- 

 ing rounded subnodular lobe ; scutellum uneven and swollen at 

 base, the apex with a thickened submargin and short median 

 carina; connexivum broadly exposed, the apical angles of the 

 segments produced ; abdomen with a broad, flat carina in a 

 wide shallow depression ; tibiae sulcate ; osteolar opening with 

 a straight abruptly ending canal reaching to middle of meta- 

 sternal plate. One species is known. 



120 (193). Neopharnus fimbriatus Van Duzee, 1910, 73. 



Broadly oval, punctate and hairy. Obscure fulvo-testaceous tinged 

 with ferruginous on the base of scutellum and humeral angles. Whole 

 surface punctured with fuscous, the punctures becoming black in places, 

 especially on middle of pronotum anteriorly, scutellum and costal area 

 of corium. Under surface with a line beneath the base of each antenna, 

 a dot before the eye, a few dots and lines on the thoracic pleura and 

 the incisures at the margins, black. Abdomen with sides strongly punc- 

 tured with black, the disk smooth; legs annulate with fuscous. Length, 

 12 mm.; width, 8 mm. 



The above comprises the salient features of the original 

 generic and specific characterizations of Van Duzee. The 

 unique type is a female taken in "Florida" by Bueno and now 

 in the Van Duzee collection. Of it he says : "This insect has 

 much the aspect of a small Brochymena, but in its generic char- 



