216 



FAMILY VI. — COREID,£. 



female X 



(After Lugger). 



apical third; the inner dilation 

 in both sexes confined to basal 

 third, much the wider in female. 

 Other characters as above given. 

 Length, 25—28 mm.; width, 9— 

 10 mm. (Fig. 43). 



Ormond, Sanford, Sara- 

 sota, R. P. Park and Dune- 

 din, Fla., Jan. 21 — April 3 

 (//'. -V. /?.). Agricultural 

 College, Miss. (Weed). 

 About Dunedin it is taken 

 frequently in early spring 

 on the flowers of thistle and 

 also swept from those of 

 huckleberry and other low 

 vegetation. Recorded by 

 Van Duzee and Barber from 

 numerous Florida stations 

 and doubtless occurs in 

 numbers throughout the 

 State. Van Duzee (1909, 

 159) states that "it was not uncommon at most places where 

 we collected. It was most abundant about 4 p. m., flying about 

 weedy places in the bright sunlight ; later in the evening they 

 could be picked off the weeds and grasses where they were 

 resting." 



This is one of the largest and most ill-smelling of our "stink- 

 bugs," and the collector can usually tell before seeing his cap- 

 ture that one is in umbrella or net. Its known range extends 

 from North Carolina to Florida, Oklahoma, Texas and Mexico. 

 Lugger (1900, 86) states that it is sometimes very common 

 in Minnesota. Saunders (1883, 220) has recorded it as being 

 injurious to cherries in the western states by puncturing the 

 fruit and sucking the juices, but his specimens were perhaps 

 erroneously determined. It varies much in size and in the 

 thickness of the hind femora of the male, and old specimens 

 are usually much darker than freshly matured ones. The 

 R hi ii mints iiasiilus Say (I, 305) is a synonym. 



154 (240). ACANTHOCEPHALA CONFRATERNA (LThler), 1871, 99. 



Elongate-oval, more narrow and less robust than femorata. Fuscous 

 or chestnut-brown, thickly clothed with fine grayish or yellowish ap- 



