70 EDWARD P. VAN DUZEE 



Podisus (Apoecilus) cyiiicus Say. Arma grmidis DaUas. 



In the Lethierry and Severin Catalogue cynicus and grandis are 

 given as distinct species, but their descriptions evidently refer to the 

 same insect. This is a common species throughout the eastern 

 United States and Canada, and I have seen specimens from as far 

 west as Galveston, Texas. This is, I think, the largest Pentatomid 

 found in the eastern United States. I have seen specimens taken 

 about Buffalo that measured 20 mm. in length. 



Podisiiiii ( Apoeciliifii) bracteaJii!^ Fitch. 



Described from New York. I have seen specimens taken in 

 Montreal (Beaulieu); Idaho (Aldrich) ; and Vancouver Island 

 (Taylor). It is distinctly a northern species, and in this form at 

 least does not extend south of New York. One of the Vancouver 

 Island specimens is the darkest I have seen ; the pronotum and scu- 

 tellum lieing of an almost uniform deep metallic green, with a few 

 scattering pale areas, and the elytra are mottled with metallic green 

 and dusky ferruginous. This species averages a little smaller than 

 cy nicies ; the humeri are more abrupt and less acute, and the latero- 

 anterior margins of the pronotum are more strongly crenulated. P. 

 bracteatus and the form mentioned below as crocatus may always be 

 distinguished from cyjiicus by having the median valve between the 

 basal plates in the female genital segment triangular. In cynicus it 

 is quadrangular. The Lethierry and Severin Catalogue erroneously 

 gives 1859 as the date of this species, it should have been 1856. I 

 cannot agree with Mr. Kirkland in placing it as a synonym of 

 cynicus. 



Podisiis crocatus Uhler. Traus. Md. Acad. Sciences, i, p. .384, 1897. 



A pale form that I cannot distinguish, except in color, from brac- 

 teatus is common throughout Colorado, Utah, Arizona and the ad- 

 joining portions of the Rocky Mountains, and has been taken in 

 Manitoba by Mr. Hanham. I have seen specimens of this in at 

 least two collections that were determined by Dr, Uhler, as his 

 crocaitts, although it does not correspond as well with his description 

 as does the preceding form which I have called bracteatus Fitch. I 

 am forced to the conclusion that this is the paler southern form of 

 that species, although I do not care to merge them until they have 

 had more thorough study and with fuller material than is now 

 available. 



