SCUTELLEROIDEA—DOUGLAS LAKE REGION 51 
six were taken in sweepings from weeds growing in a low place 
in a rye field July 18. The grain had just been cut and it is 
possible that the bugs may have moved from that to the weeds. 
Adjacent to the field was a pine and hardwood forest. 
This is the largest eydnid that is likely to be found in the 
region, averaging about 5 to 6 mm. in length. In color, it is 
uniform bluish with white pronotal and costal markings and 
with abbreviated white lines on the outer sides of the tibie. 
Family Pentatomide 
Subfamily Pentatomine 
Sciocoris microphthalmus Flor. 
It was rather a pleasant surprise to discover this typically 
Palzarctie species in the Douglas Lake region and it proved to 
be the best find of our two seasons’ collecting. My earlier note 
concerning the occurrence of this rare pentatomid in Michigan 
(Ent. News, XXXI, 1920, 141) constitutes the first published 
record for the state. The following statement regarding its 
status is quoted from that note: 
‘*This little pentatomid is one of the rarest and most interest- 
ing members of the North American heteropterous fauna but 
less than a half dozen definite locality records are known to me 
at the present time. Van Duzee (Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. XXX, 
1904, 32) records a single specimen from the White Mountains 
in New Hampshire and Parshley (Fauna of New England, 14, 
1917, 17) records a specimen from Maine. To these localities 
I am glad to add another, thus making known the further dis- 
tribution of this insect within our borders. 
‘During the summer of 1919, I took four specimens of 
Sciocoris microphthalmus in the Douglas Lake region of north- 
ern Michigan. One of these, a male, was taken in the sweep 
net on July 9, and again on July 18, a male and a female were 
swept from roadside weeds growing in a wooded area along the 
edge of a small stream. One nymph, a male about one-third 
grown, was also taken on July 20 in a similar situation.’’ 
During the season of 1920 special effort was made to secure 
specimens in the situations where they were found in 1919, but 
in vain. One specimen, a female taken July 16 on the cement 
