1922] Hussey — Notes on Neottiglossa trilineata 85 



Pseudofersia spinifer (Leach) 



Taken on the Florida Cormorant (Phalacrocorax auritus 

 floridanus) at Great Sale Key, Bahams, July 17/05, by Dr. G. M. 

 Allen. A widely distributed species of the tropics, frequenting 

 the Man-o'-War-Bird {Fregata aquila), Gannets and Black Vul- 

 ture. 



NOTES ON NEOTTIGLOSSA TRILINEATA KIRBY 

 (HEMIPTERA, PENTATOMID^)i 



By Roland F. Hussey 



In Richardson's 'Tauna Boreali- Americana" (Vol. 4, 1837, 

 p. 276, pi. vi, figs. 6, 6a), W. Kirby described and figured a Pen- 

 tatoma trilineata, from one specimen "taken in the road from New 

 York to Cumberland House" [Saskatchewan], and proposed for 

 it a new subgenus, Neottiglossa, which he characterized, in the 

 following words: 



"Nose shorter than the cheeks. Bed of the promuscis elev- 

 ated on each side at the base. 



''In the typical Pentatomce, the part which I regard as ana- 

 logous to a nose is of the same length with the two lateral lobes 

 of the front, and the base of the cavity in which the promuscis 

 reposes when unemployed is not so elevated." 



Whatever may be said of this generic diagnosis, whose in- 

 completeness led to the redescription of the genus under different 

 names by Dohrn (1860) and by Fieber (1861), Kirby's description 

 of Pentatoma trilineata serves amply for the identification of the 

 species, and it is surprising that it has not been better understood. 

 Dallas (List of Hemip., i, 1851, p. 224) records the species from 

 Hudson's Bay and from Nova Scotia. Uhler (Proc. Bost. Soc. 

 Nat. Hist., xiv, 1871, p. 96) placed trilineata as a synonym of 

 Neottiglossa undata Say, in which he was followed by Stal (Enum- 

 Hem., ii, 1872, p. 18). A few years later, Uhler (Bull. U. S. 

 Geol. Geogr. Surv., iii, 1877, p. 401) separated the two species, 



iContribution from the Entomological Laboratory of the Bussey Institution, Harvard 

 University, No. 200. 



