60 EDWARD P. VAN DUZEE. 



from Montana (Cooley). Say's type was from Virginia. For some 

 reason Stal failed to locate this species in Banasa in the Enumera- 

 tio, and possibly, on that account, it was not properly placed in the 

 Lethierry and Severin Catalogue. 



Banasa variaiis Stal. 



A southern species that has recently been recorded from Las 

 Vegas Hot Springs, New Mexico, by Dr. Uhler (Proc. U. S. Nat'l 

 Museum, xxvii, p. 351, 1904). It may be distinguished from calva, 

 which it closely resembles, by its shorter head and the absence of 

 black points at the incisures on the margins of the venter. From 

 dimidiata it differs by the longer second antennal joint, the different 

 punctuation and the absence of black points on the margins of the 

 venter. The record adding this species to our fauna was received 

 too late to allow of its inclusion in the accompanying synopsis of 

 our species. 



Banasa dimidiata Say. 



This is a common and widely distributed species. The types were 

 from Georgia and Florida, and I have seen specimens from most of 

 the eastern States, Colorado, Utah, North Dakota and Montana. In 

 Canada it ranges from Quebec to Vancouver Island. When fully 

 colored this is one of our most beautifully colored Pentatomids. It 

 is quite variable in size, punctuation and the convexity of the pro 

 notum. The larger eastern specimens 1 have heretofore determined 

 as calva, and the smaller western form as dimidiata, but there seems 

 to be no line of demarcation between them, and I can now see no 

 reason for keeping them .separate. 



Banasa sordida Uhler. 



Dr. Uhler describes this species from Massachusetts, Maryland 

 and Virginia, and later recorded it from New Mexico. It is inclu 

 (led in the Gillette and Baker List of the Hemiptera of Colorado, 

 and more recently I have examined specimens that were taken in 

 Arizona, and a deeply colored pair taken in Vancouver Island by 

 Rev. G. W. Taylor. It differs from Packardi in being more strongly 

 and densely punctured, and the color is darker, or even brownish 

 chestnut, with the apex of the scutellum more broadly white, and 

 the black dots on the eda:e of the abdomen much larger. 



