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hard) . Originally described from specimens taken along the 

 Atlantic coast from Massachusetts to Wilmington, N. Car. The 

 types in part were beaten from oak and pine and others were 

 taken from washup along the ocean beaches. The Indiana and 

 Michigan specimens are the only ones known from the interior. 

 "Readily distinguished from maculiventris by the broader and 

 proportionally shorter anterior part of head ; by its straighter 

 anterior lateral margins of pronotum ; by the rounded humeri 

 and lack of humeral spine; by the median ventral spots being 

 large, dull red-brown and not sharply defined, never shining 

 black ; by the venter being profusely marked with red and red- 

 brown spots and blotches and by the larger size, more robust 

 appearance and general darker color." (Olsen). 



142 (228). Podisus serieventris Uhler, 1871, 94. 



Oblong-oval, depressed above, convex beneath. General color above 

 much as in maculiventris, but usually a little darker, rarely strongly 

 tinged with reddish ; edges of front side margins of pronotum and a 

 triangular spot on each basal angle of scutellum, calloused ivory-white; 

 humeri blackish; membrane with a blotch at tip and inner basal angle 

 fuscous; antennae reddish-brown, the third and fourth joints in great 

 part fuscous; under surface pale yellow, thickly sprinkled with reddish 

 and fuscous punctures; sides of abdomen each with two rows of small 

 dark spots, the angles of the ends of the ventrals black; middle of ab- 

 domen with a row of four larger sharply defined black spots, the one on 

 sixth ventral much the largest; thoracic pleura with the punctures 

 coarser and usually aggregated to form an irregular dark median 

 stripe; legs flecked with purplish dots, the hind femora with a fuscous 

 or purplish ring near apex. Head as in maculiventris. Pronotum with 

 side margins feebly but evidently concave, their front portion with 

 rounded crenations; humeri broad, triangular, their tips obtusely angled; 

 disk with punctures aggregated near front angles and on the sides of 

 front portion to form four to six ill-defined fuscous spots. Ventral spine 

 short, not reaching hind coxa?. Length, 9.5 — 11.5 mm.; width, 5.5--- 

 6.5 mm. 



Fulton and Crawford counties, Ind., Sept. 10 — Oct. 7 ; in the 

 former swept from marsh grass near the edge of a tamarack 

 swamp (W.S.B.). Porter Co., Ind., Aug. 28 on tamarack 

 {Gerhard). Ranges from Quebec and New England westward 

 through southern Canada and the northern states to the Pa- 

 cific. Recorded south of New Jersey only from Southern 

 Pines, N. Car. Uhler states (1878, 371) that this species was 

 named Pentatoma serieventris by Say, but the description was 

 never published. Kirkland (1898,130) says that in Massachu- 



