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ventral spine will distinguish this species. The sides of the head 

 are nari-owly black in all the specimens I have examined. 



I'odiMnM sagitta Fahr. 



A Mexican and West Indian form that has been reported by Dr. 

 Uhler from Texas. A fairly good figure is given by Distant in the 

 Biologia, pi. 1, fig. 22. The imperfectly emarginated humeri will 

 distinguish this species from inaculiventris, its nearest relative in our 

 northern fauna. 



* Podisus pallens Stal. 



I have seen one specimen, undoubtedly pallens, in the collection 

 of Prof. Herbert Osborn. It is certainly very close to viaculiventris 

 and modestus, but without material for study I cannot attempt to 

 place it in my synoptical key. Stal's types were from California, 

 and Dr. Uhler has recently recorded it from Lower California. 



Podisns iniicronatiis Uhler. Trans. Md. Acad. Sciences, i, p. 386, 1897. 

 Mrs. Annie Trumbull Slosson has generously given me an exam- 

 ple of this distinct species taken in southern Florida, and the types 

 were from the same source. It cannot be confounded with any other 

 species known to me. 



Podisus acutissimus Stal. 



Of this very pretty species I possess four examples from Texas. 

 Two of these were taken at Brownsville by Prof. Wickham. All of 

 ray specimens have the median callous on the base of the scutellum, 

 as pictured by Distant in the Biologia, pi. 2, fig. 22. Dr. Uhler 

 reports this species from Colorado, and the types were from Texas 

 and Mexico. 



Mutycha phymatopliora P. B Indian. 



This is a large West Indian form that has been taken in southern 

 Florida by Mrs. Slosson, Distant considers it as distinct from the 

 South American grandis, and it is so listed in Lethierry and Sev- 

 erin's Catalogue. 



Miitycbia grandis Dallas. 



Mr. Otto Heidemann has an example of this species that was 

 taken in southern Florida. Distant distinguishes it from the pre- 

 ceding by its having the humeral spines directed somewhat forwards 

 and in having the base of the scutellum and the elytra more closely 

 punctured. In the few specimens I have examined of this species 



