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larvae of various insects. He adds : "The deeply sinuate hu- 

 meral angles, red marking at tip of corium, light colored ter- 

 gum, short ventral spine and short segment of antennae, are 

 characteristic of modestus and will serve to distinguish it." 

 Stoner found it in Iowa only at Robinson, where it was fre- 

 quent in August on hazel. 



144 (230). Podisus placidus Uhler, 1870, 203. 



Oblong-oval, subdepressed. Pale yellow, above thickly and un- 

 evenly marked with small reddish-brown punctures ; edges of front side 

 margins of pronotum and numerous narrow wavy lines across its disk 

 and that of scutellum, subcalloused ivory white; antennae reddish-brown, 

 the last two joints paler; edge of cheeks blackish; elytra slightly tinged 

 with reddish; membrane uniform pale brown; connexivum orange-red 

 with a blackish spot on each incisure; abdomen sprinkled with minute 

 reddish punctures, often with a row of small reddish-brown spots each 

 side, the angles of ends of ventrals each with a blackish point. Head as 

 wide across the eyes as long, its apex broadly rounded ; cheeks and tylus 

 unevenly sparsely punctate. Pronotum with side margins straight, finely 

 crenate before the middle; humeral angles obtusely rounded. Elytra 

 rather closely, finely and shallowly punctate. Length, 7.5 — 9 mm. ; width, 

 5 — 6 mm. 



Riverhead and Yaphank, Long Island, N. Y., July — August 

 (Davis). Ranges from Quebec and New England west to 

 Colorado, but not recorded south of New Jersey. Though not 

 as yet noted in Indiana it doubtless occurs in the northern 

 counties, as it is recorded from both Michigan and Illinois. 

 Kirkland (1898, 117) states that in Massachusetts the imagoes 

 of the fall brood hibernate and emerge about the middle of 

 May, feeding first upon the tent caterpillar (Clisiocampa amcr- 

 icana Harr.) and afterward upon the larvae of the gypsy moth 

 and other Lepidoptera. From 50 to 60 eggs are deposited by 

 each female, these being placed in batches on the under side of 

 leaves or on twigs. They hatch in about ten days and the 

 young feed on. the juices of leaves for a week or so, when the 

 first molting takes place. From this time on they are preda- 

 ceous. The second and third molts take place in 12 and 10 days, 

 respectively, and the last one in about three weeks. The 

 imagoes of the summer brood appear during July and those of 

 the fall brood in September. Olsen (1912, 57) says that this 

 bug is common throughout the pine region of Long Island and 

 in the washup at Rockaway Beach, the food plant being prob- 

 ably scrub-oak. Stoner has taken it in Iowa on hazel. The 



