174 FAMILY V. — PENTATOMID^. 



thickly sprinkled with reddish dots and punctures; hind angle of the 

 end of each ventral black; legs dull yellow, the tibiae in part and tarsi 

 reddish. Cheeks feebly concave, usually contiguous above and in front 

 of tylus, sometimes not meeting, the apex of head then appearing slightly 

 cleft, their disks evenly, finely, closely and deeply punctate. Antennae 

 moderately stout, the third joint nearly one-half longer than first and 

 second united ; fourth slightly shorter than fifth. Pronotum as described 

 above, its disk and that of scutellum rather evenly punctate, with numer- 

 ous smooth areas intervening. Elytra more finely and sparsely, less 

 deeply punctate. Abdomen very finely, sparsely and shallowly punctate; 

 thoracic pleura more coarsely and deeply so. Length, 6.5 — 7.5 mm.; 

 width, 4.5 — 5 mm. 



Marion, Knox and Posey counties, Ind., April 21 — Aug. 3; 

 probably occurs sparingly throughout the State. Ranges 

 from New England west to Kansas and Colorado and south to 

 Georgia. Occurs mostly on the foliage of oak or hickory in dry 

 upland or sandy localities. Uhler (1877, 401) in his notes fol- 

 lowing the original description, says: "This beautiful little 

 species resembles the genus Eusckistus in that part of the group 

 represented by E. tristigma Say. . . . As it roams so widely, 

 and over a multitude of plants and trees, we believe it to be 

 carnivorous like its brethern of the genus Podisus." Kirkland 

 (1897, 57) states that this supposition of Uhler was correct 

 as in Massachusetts it has been repeatedly found destroying 

 tent caterpillars, and, on several occasions, the gypsy moth 

 larvae. Van Duzee (1904, 62) records the beating of it from 

 scrub oak on the mountain sides in Colorado, while Hart states 

 that in Illinois it is not uncommonly swept from black-jack oak. 



Although Uhler, in his original description, states that the 

 pronotum of humeralis has "anteriorly each side of middle a 

 round black spot," but one of the Indiana specimens at hand 

 shows a trace of these spots and in that one they are very 

 faint. Another example has the hind portion of pronotum 

 almost covered with two large bilobed fuscous blotches. The 

 small round black spots are very evident in all specimens of the 

 next species. 



122 (195). Dendrocoris fruticicola Bergroth, 1891, 228. 



Form and size of humeralis. General color much as there, the punc- 

 tures of upper surface fuscous, fewer in number, more shallow and less 

 evenly placed; pronotum with a pair of round, submedian black dots at 

 basal third; side margins of scutellum each with a similar slightly 

 larger one at apical third; corium with apical half often tinged with 



