TRANSACTIONS 



OF THE 



AMERICAN ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCILTV 



VOLUIVLK XXX. 



Ai\]^OTATKI) lAST «F THE PKNTATOMID/E 



Recorded t'roiii America ^'orJh of .flexico, 

 witli descripliouM of* some new species. 



BY EDWARD P. VAN DUZEE, Buffalo, N. Y. 



For several years past 1 have been making special efforts to 

 increase my collection of Pentatomids from all parts of the world. 

 Of the species thus far recorded from America north of Mexico, I 

 have been able to secure examples of all but a few, and some of 

 those still wanting in my collection may yet prove to be synonyms 

 of other better known forms. I venture to publish the present 

 notes to put in more permanent form certain observations I have 

 made on our species, and to record additional localities and the 

 range of some of the species as known to me. I am aware that 

 these notes are very fragmentary and that many other species fi'om 

 the West Indies and jNIexico doubtless invade our southern border. 

 Records of such additional species, including those fron) Florida, 

 Texas, Arizona and the Pacific coast, are greatly to be desired, and 

 it is partly in the hope of stimulating the publication of such notes 

 that these fragments have been put in print. 



I have quoted largely from the writings of Dr. P. R. Uhler. Too 

 much cannot be said in praise of the work done by Dr. Uhler. In 

 almost every case it is accurate and concise and throughout is 

 remarkably free from errors due to hasty work, and, what is still 

 more rare in work of this character, it has a literary style that 

 makes it delightful reading with which to pass an idle hour. Dr. 

 Uhler's work needs no })raise from me. It has been an inspiration 



TRANS. AM. ENT. SOC. XXX. (1) JANUARY. 1904 



