202 FAMILY V. — PENTATOMID.E. 



small size, short broad head with black line on edge of cheeks, 

 the uniform brown hue of the membrane, and the obtusely 

 rounded humeri are the principal characters distinguishing this 

 species from its allies. 



145 (233). Podisus mucronatus Uhler, 1897a, 386. 



Elongate-oval, subdepressed above, convex beneath. Pale yellow, 

 above thickly and unevenly marked with rather coarse reddish-brown 

 punctures; head with four narrow stripes formed of blackish punctures; 

 edges of cheeks and humeral spines blackish ; broad side margins of 

 pronotum, two spots on its disk, three across base of scutellum and the 

 tip of latter, subcalloused ivory-white; membrane dark brown without 

 fuscous markings ; connexivum yellow, the inner angles of the segments 

 blackish; under surface and legs uniform pale yellow, the tarsi a little 

 darker. Head slightly longer than wide, its apex rounded ; cheeks 

 sparsely unevenly punctate. Pronotum with side margins wide, flat- 

 tened and straight in front of the base of the acute and prominent for- 

 ward projecting spines ; disk of front portion sparsely and very unevenly 

 punctate, of hind one more closely and evenly so. Scutellum with basal 

 portion sparsely punctate, the apical half more closely so, the apex 

 smooth. Elytra more finely, evenly and closely punctate. Under sur- 

 face sparsely, rather coarsely and shallowly punctate. Osteolar canal 

 short, not at all curved, the apex rounded. Length, 9 — 11.5 mm.; 

 width, 5 — 6.5 mm. 



Ormond, Kissimmee, Dunedin, Ft. Myers, Caxambus and 

 Cape Sable, Fla., Dec. 1 — April 6 (W.S.B.). Recorded from 

 a number of additional stations by Van Duzee and Barber, and 

 probably occurs sparingly throughout the eastern and southern 

 portions of the State. Known in this country only from 

 Florida, but Uhler's types were in part from Cuba. My speci- 

 mens were taken singly, mostly by beating cabbage palmetto 

 and other foliage along the margins of dry sandy cultivated 

 fields or by sweeping along the bay front. A prettily marked 

 and easily distinguished species. 



X. Zicrona Amyot & Serville, 1843, 86. 



Small, oblong-oval subconvex species having the head feebly 

 declivent, as wide across the eyes as long; cheeks convex, 

 equalling tylus ; beak short, stout, reaching middle coxae, its 

 second joint one-half longer than third, the latter equal to 

 fourth ; antennae pubescent, surpassing hind margin of prono- 

 tum, joints 2, 4 and 5 subequal, third nearly one-half shorter; 

 pronotum with front portion but slightly declivent, its side 



