128 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi. xi. 



A PRELIMINARY LIST OF THE PENTATOMIDiE 

 WITHIN FIFTY MILES OF NEW YORK. 



By J. R. DE LA Torre Bueno. 



Due to the great courtesy of Mr. E. P. Van Duzee, of Buffalo, 

 who very kindly examined and named the material collected by me in 

 this locality and others near by in 1902 and the spring of 1903, I 

 am enabled to present this very incomplete Preliminary List of the 

 Pentatomidte within fifty miles of New York. In extenuation for 

 presenting such a fragment, I may say that it is, I trust, a beginning, 

 a foundation on which myself or another better fitted for it than I, 

 may erect a superstructure comparable to Professor Smith's invaluable 

 list of the insects of New Jersey. 



Of the Pentatomidffi in my collection, one genus, Pentatoma, and 

 one species, Mineus strigipes H.-S., are additions to Smith's list 

 for this vicinity. The specimen of Pentatoma senilis Say, was taken 

 by that indefatigable collector, Mr. W. T. Davis, who generously 

 presented it to me. He has several specimens from Staten Island,, 

 and it cannot therefore be rare hereabout. 



Family Pentatomid^. 



Perillus Sidl. 



P, exaptus Say. Mosholu, N. Y., June 22. 



Mineus Stal. 



M. strigipes H.-S. Mosholu, N. Y., July 12, 1902. Not rare. 



Podisus H.-S. 

 P. maculiventris Say {^= spinosiis Dall.). Mosholu, N. Y., 

 July 19, August 23, September 4, October 6. Forest Park, L. I., 

 June 8 and 14. Van Cortlandt Park, N. Y., September 13. 

 Brocliymena Am. ct Serv. 



B. annulata Fah. Lakehurst, N. J., May 27. 



Cosmopepla Stdl. 



C. carnifex. Fah. Mosholu, N. Y., August 9. Forest Park, L. 

 I., June 8 Not rare. 



Mormidea Am. et Serv. 

 M. lugens Fab. Mosholu, N. Y., May 31, June 22, July 4, 12, 

 19 and 26. Forest Park, L. I., June 14. Palisades, N. J., July 4. 



