22 EDWARD P. VAN DUZEE. 



Genus PODOPS Lap. 

 Our two species belono: to tlie sul)genus Amanrochrous Stal, iii- 

 cliuled ill liis synopsis of the genera of American Pentatomidfc under 

 the name Scotinophara Stal. 



Size larger (6V mm.) ; humeral tooth large, obtuse, its anterior edge arcuate ; disk 

 fifthe venter posteriorly more nearly smooth; outer ajiicai angles of 

 the male genital segment projecting beyond the general contour line, 

 visilile from above; apex of the female genital segment with a mediau 

 sinus cinctipes. 



Size smaller 1 5 mm.); humeral tooth sliort, acute, anterior margins rectilinear, 

 continuous with the latero-anterior margin of the proiiotum ; disk of 

 the venter strongly punctured to the apex ; outer apical angles of the 

 male genital segment ol)tuse, scarcely piominent; apex of the tVmale 

 genital segmens truueated parvulus. 



Podops cinctipes Say. 



I have placed under this name the larger species found through- 

 out the northern States and Canada. Dr. Uhler records its occur- 

 rence in several of the southern States, so it probably extends its 

 range over pretty nearly the whole of the United States and Canada. 

 So far as I can see, the figure and description of dubius in the large 

 work of Palisot de Beauvois answers in almost every particular for 

 the present species, but Stal, in the Enumeratio, places it as distinct, 

 giving Cuba and San Domingo as the habitat for dubivs, and states 

 that the lateral processes of tlie jji'onotum are longer tiian in cincti- 

 pes. These species are also cited as distinct in Lethierry and Sev- 

 erin's Catalogue, and it is therefore i)robably safe to assume that 

 there is a West Indian form that is sufficiently distin<^t from cincti- 

 pes. The latter species is not uncommon about Buffalo, and I have 

 seen specimens from Montreal and New Jersey. As the species 

 de.scribe<l below has heretofore been confounded with this, I will 

 not attemj)t to quote other localities. 



Podops parvulus n. s|). 



Allied 1o cindipe.s but smaller with the humeral tooth more acute. Head as 

 in cinctipes but witli the stylated eyes a little more slender and separated more 

 widely from the angles of tlie pronotum. Antennae a little shorter and more 

 slender, second and third joints more strongly diflTereutiated. these and the 

 fourth a little i)aler than in cinctipes. The pi'onotum differs in having the 

 median transvei'se furrow more uniform, the anterior furrow farther from tlie 

 fore border with the surface before it more elevated above the base of the 

 head, the lateral margins more strongly arcnated anteriorly, with the hunierul 

 tooth more acute, and produced more bacjkward and downward. The venter is 



