176 FAMILY V. — PENTATOMID^E. 



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middle, its sides concave; hind margin with a small, U-shaped 

 median notch. One species is known. 



123 (201). BREPHOLOXA heidemanni Van Duzee, 1904, 78. 



Elongate-oval, subdepressed. Above and beneatb a uniform pale dull 

 yellow; narrow edges of head and pronotum and apical joints of anten- 

 nae tinged with reddish. Head, pronotum and scutellum finely, rather 

 closely punctate, with numerous narrow, wavy, transverse rugae between 

 the rows of punctures. Elytra more sparsely punctate, the ruga? less 

 evident. Structural characters as above given. Length, 11 — 12 mm.; 

 width, 6 — 7 mm. 



Cape Sable and Sanibel Island, Fla., Feb. 23— March 4 (W. 

 S.B.). Beaten in small numbers from foliage of the black- 

 mangrove and other shrubs along the margins of brackish- 

 water bayous. The types were from Biscayne, Fla., and it has 

 not been recorded elsewhere. Superficially it bears a close 

 resemblance to both Piesodorus guildinii and faded examples of 

 Banasa calva, but is easily separated by the characters given 

 in the generic key. 



Tribe IV. EDESSINI. 



This tribe, as characterized in the key, p. 94, contains only 

 the single genus : 



I. Edessa Fabricius, 1803, 145. 



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Large, broadly oval, robust species having the head short, 

 porrect, broader across the eyes than long ; cheeks longer than 

 tylus, and meeting in front of it; beak short, not reaching 

 middle coxae, its tip normally received in front notch of meta- 

 sternal crest, its first joint longer than bucculse, second as long 

 as third and fourth united; antennae not reaching base of 

 pronotum, first joint passing apex of head, 2 and 3 subequal, 

 4 and 5 also subequal and longer ; pronotum with front portion 

 strongly declivent, side margins straight, entire, humeri 

 obtusely rounded ; scutellum relatively short and broad, its tip 

 broadly rounded ; membrane not surpassing abdomen, its veins 

 numerous, simple, oblique ; connexivum broadly exposed, the 

 abdomen therefore widest behind the middle ; metasternum 

 with the peculiar ridge described in key, this deeply notched at 

 each end and with a median lobe each side between the middle 

 and hind coxae (fig. 35, a) ; second ventral with a short, trian- 

 gular spine, whose apex is received in hind notch of metaster- 



