SUBFAMILY II. — ASOPIN^E. 191 



says that "in Costa Rica and other tropical countries it takes 

 on its most brilliant coloring of metallic green or blue and 

 orange." The Pentatoma emarginata Say (I, 313) is a synonym. 



VII. Mineus Stal, 1867, 498. 



Rather small, elongate-oval species having the head mod- 

 erately declivent, its apex subtruncate ; cheeks equalling tylus, 

 conjointly concave above ; beak reaching middle coxae, its sec- 

 ond and fourth joints subequal, third shorter; pronotum with 

 front portion gradually declivent, its sides straight, entire, 

 humeri not prominent, narrowly rounded ; scutellum relatively 

 small, its apical third as wide as corium, the tip broadly 

 rounded, frena reaching its middle ; membrane slightly passing 

 abdomen, its veins few, simple ; osteolar canal long, curved, 

 very narrow ; ventral spine short, slender, reaching hind coxae ; 

 front femora unarmed ; tibiae rounded above, front ones not 

 dilated. Males with a pair of large pubescent spaces on ven- 

 trals 4 — 6, their genital plate convex, its hind margin semi- 

 circular, entire. But one species is known. 



135 (221). Mineus strigipes (Herrich-Schaeffer), 1853, 338. 



Elongate-oval, subdepressed above, more convex beneath. Above 

 blue-black, shining; narrow edges of head and basal half of costal border 

 of elytra yellow; humeri, all the margins and a narrow median line of 

 pronotum, orange-red; scutellum black with a broad orange-red V- 

 shaped submargin ; edge of the narrowly exposed connexivum also orange- 

 red ; membrane dai'k fuscous ; abdomen orange-red or yellow with four 

 rows of large black spots, the two median spots united on sixth ventral; 

 genital plate black; thoracic pleura orange-red, their margins black; 

 legs black, the femora and tibiae with yellow stripes. Antennae blue-black 

 at base, fuscous toward apex, joints 2 and 5 subequal, 3 and 4 shorter and 

 subequal. Cheeks coarsely and densely punctate. Pronotum less coarsely, 

 evenly punctate. Basal half of scutellum with transverse rugae between 

 the irregular rows of coarse punctures, apical half more finely, evenly, 

 sparsely punctate. Elytra very finely, shallowly and evenly punctate. 

 Abdomen, finely, evenly, not closely punctate, the pubescent spaces of 

 male very large; thoracic pleura coarsely and sparsely punctate. Length, 

 9 — 10 mm.; width, 4.5 — 5 mm. 



Fulton Co., Ind., July 4. Dunedin, Fla., March 21 {W. S. B.) . 

 Washington, D. C, June (Davis). Raleigh, N. Car., April — 

 May (Brimley). The single Indiana specimen was taken from 

 tall wire-grass growing in the boggy margin of a small lake, 

 while the only Dunedin one was swept from herbage on the 



