SUBFAMILY II. — ASOPIN.E. 195 



ones were placed in a small box with two nymphs of BrochymenO, 

 quadripustulata (Fabr.) of about the same size. Four days later 

 the box was opened and the Apateticus nymphs were found alive 

 and well while nothing was left of the Brochymena ones but 

 empty skins." 



138 (225). Apateticus bracteatus (Fitch), 1856, 336. 



Broadly oval, less tapering behind than cynicus. Dull yellow thickly 

 marked with reddish or greenish punctures ; cheeks edged with a narrow 

 green line; antennae reddish-yellow, the last three joints dusky; front 

 half of pronotum with six small green dots, four in a transverse row, 

 the other two behind the end ones of the row; connexivals orange with 

 a dark green oblong spot each side of each incisure; under surface pale 

 yellow, the minute punctures along the sides brick-red, the angles of ends 

 of ventrals black; legs darker yellow. Cheeks but slightly surpassing 

 tylus, less so than in cynicus, their margins more deeply sinuate in front 

 of eyes. Pronotum very finely punctate with numerous very narrow 

 wavy transverse lines between the punctures; humeral angles slightly 

 shorter and less acute than in cynicus. Male with upper lateral proc- 

 esses of genital segment long, twisted, narrow and acute. Median basal 

 plate of female genitalia triangular, its tip obtuse. Length, 13 — 17 mm.; 

 width, 8 — 10 mm. 



Northern Illinois (Hart) . A species of northern distribution, 

 ranging from Quebec and New England west to Nebraska, 

 Idaho and Vancouver. Hart (1919, 199) has confused brac- 

 teatus and crocatus (Uhl.), the latter species not occurring east 

 of the Mississippi. 



IX. Podisus Herrich-Schaeffer, 1853, 296. 



The members of this genus differ from those of Apateticus, as 

 above characterized, mainly in their smaller size, in the short- 

 er cheeks, which do not pass the tylus, in the absence of stridu- 

 latory areas of the male and in the structure of the genital 

 plate of female, there being in Podisus but two contiguous basal 

 plates, whereas in most species of Apateticus these are widely 

 separated by a third quadrangular or triangular one. In all 

 other essential characters they agree with Apateticus, and have 

 been by most American authors treated with the species of 

 that genus under the name Podisus. Seven species occur in the 

 eastern states. 



KEY TO EASTERN SPECIES OF PODISUS. 



a. Humeri without acute forward projecting spines; side margins of 

 pronotum not conspicuously calloused-white. 



