28 EDWARD P VAN DUZEE. 



most abundant in the regions well covered with forests of deciduous 

 trees. It is subject to some variation in the form of the apex of the 

 head, the armature of the sides of the pronotum, and the sculptura- 

 tion at the apex of the scutellum. In all the specimens before nie 

 the cheeks slightly surpass the tylus, with their apex narrow and 

 obtuse, their subapical tooth large, usually obtuse, and almost attain- 

 ing the tip of the head ; the apex of the scutellum is rather blunt 

 and more or less distinctly impressed on the middle. The antennae 

 are fuscous with the extreme base of the second, third and fourth 

 joints pale. The rnesosternun) is marked with a transverse black 

 spot. 



Brocliyinena Poeyi Guer. 



Mr. Otto Heideman has kindly given me a male from Florida 

 that was determined by Dr. Uhler as Poeyi. It differs from Stal's 

 descriptive notes on this species by having the bases only of the an 

 tennal joints pale, the tylus attaining the extreme apex of the head, 

 and the raesosternum marked with the large black spot found in 

 arborea. It is much paler in color than arborea, the obtuse apex of 

 the cheeks does not exceed the tylus and the subapical tooth is re 

 duced to an obtuse angle at the base of the apical sinus. The tip of 

 the scutellum is also more produced and narrowed to an obtuse angle. 

 As this evidently belongs to a species sufficiently distinct from 

 arborea, I prefer for the present to leave it as determined l)y Dr. 

 Uhler, even though it does not fully accord with the known charac 

 ters of this species. 



Brochymena lumdala Stal. — This is a Mexican species not yet re- 

 corded from our territory. I have included it in the synoptical 

 table above to make that more complete. B. aeuleata, Dist. is 

 another closely allied form from Mexico that may be distinguished 

 from hcedula by the stronger armature of the pronotum and the 

 uniformly fuscous antennae. 



Brocbymena qiiadripustulata Fahr. 



This is by far our most abundant species of Brochymena through- 

 out the eastern United States and Canada. It ranges west to 

 Arizona, Utah and California. I have seen this species in several 

 collections under the name anuulata. Stal gives a very clear and 

 concise characterization of these two species in his Enuineratio that 

 should preclude any possibility of error in their discrimination. The 



