192 FAMILY V. — PENTATOMID^E. 



side of a wet hammock. Its known range extends from Massa- 

 chusetts west to Illinois and south to Florida. Barber mentions 

 a Brooklyn Museum specimen from Florida, and it is in the 

 Bolter collection from that State. Stal (1870) records it from 

 Texas, and Uhler (1876) from New Mexico, but these record? 

 are questioned by Van Duzee (1917, 76). 



But little mention has been made of the habits of this hand- 

 some little bug. Banks has taken it on Jersey-tea (Ceanothus) 

 and Bueno (1910, 23) mentions the taking of a specimen, 

 April 18, at White Plains, N. Y., which was "perched on a 

 rock," so that in that region, it probably hibernates as an 

 imago. 



VIII. Apateticus Dallas, 1851, 105. 



Large elongate or broadly oval, strongly tapering Pentato- 

 mids, having the head porrect, its apex broadly rounded, slight- 

 ly bifid; cheeks broad, flat, sinuate near base, a little longer 

 than tylus ; beak very stout, passing middle coxae, the third and 

 fourth joints subequal, second a little longer; antennae slender, 

 nearly half the length of body, joints 4 and 5 subequal, 2 dis- 

 tinctly longer, 3 shortest ; pronotum twice as broad across the 

 humeri as long, front portion moderately declivent, side mar- 

 gins straight, coarsely crenate, humeri usually prominent and 

 acute or subspinose; scutellum strongly tapering, its apical 

 half narrower than corium, the tip rounded, frena reaching its 

 apical fourth; apex of corium straight, the inner angle 

 rounded ; membrane surpassing abdomen, its veins simple ; os- 

 teolar canal long, broad, curved ; front femora unarmed ; ven- 

 tral spine slender, reaching front margin of hind coxae; tibiae 

 sulcate above, front ones not dilated. Male with third and 

 fourth ventrals furnished each side of middle with a sparsely 

 pubescent stridulatory area ; genital plate with hind margin 

 broadly concave. 



The generic name, Apateticus, has, by most American 

 authors, been used as a subgenus of Podisus H. S., though it 

 antedates the latter two years. The distinctions between the 

 two genera are few, the principal ones being those given in the 

 key. Five species of Apateticus are recognized from the United 

 States, three of which occur in our territory. 



KEY TO EASTERN' SPECIES OF APATETICUS. 



a. Humeral angles of pronotum obtusely rounded; female genital seg- 

 ment with but two basal plates. (Subgenus Apateticus). 



136. LINEOLATUS. 



