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southern Illinois, on cabbage, rape, turnip, and wild peppergrass, May 
16 and 23, June 2, July 24 and 25, August 3, 5, 6, 10, and 11; and from 
Edgar, Urbana, and Springfield (C. IIl.) June 23, September 8 to 28, 
and in October, both young and old having been found on rape at Urbana 
and imagines on mustard at Edgar. The Bolter Collection contains one 
example from northern Illinois, and the species has been taken by us in 
Chicago. It is listed from Iowa (Stoner). 
12. CosMopEpLa Stal 
COSMOPEPLA BIMACULATA Thom.* 
Pentatoma bimaculata Thomas, Trans. Ill. State Agr. Soc., Vol. 5, p. 455. 
1865. 
Cimex carnifex Fabricius, Ent. Syst., Suppl., p. 535. 1798. (Preoccupied.) 
Cosmopepla lintneriana Kirkaldy, Cat. Hemip. (Heter.), with Biol. and 
Anatom. Ref., Vol. 1, p. 80. 1909. 
Abundant and generally distributed in Illinois. Taken in every month 
from March to November. Unlike most species it was most frequently 
taken in the summer months. Nymphs were collected in June and August. 
Kirkaldy lists as food plants, Scrophularia nodosa, Ranunculus, currant, 
blackberry, mint, mullein, potato, raspberry, and moth mullein; and to 
these I add from our records Stachys and pokeberry. The recorded 
range is the United states and Canada east of the Rocky Mountains, also 
Washington. We have several typical specimens from Monterey, Mex., 
and two from New Mexico. 
13. Mormipra A. & S. 
MorMIDEA LUGENS Fabr. 
Cimex lugens Fabricius, Ent. Syst., sec. ed., Vol. 4, p. 125. 1794. 
This species also is abundant in all sections of Illinois. Common in 
the United States and Canada, especially east of the Rocky Mountains. 
Like the preceding species it is notably most abundant in the summer 
months. Nymphs also were common in summer after June 21, and a few 
were taken in September and October. Imagines occurred in November, 
‘December, March, and April, indicating hibernation as adult. Food plant, 
Verbascum (Kirkaldy). 
14. Socusea Berger. 
SOLUBEA PUGNAX Fabr. 
Cimex pugnaz Fabricius, Ent. Syst., sec. ed., Vol. 4, p. 100. 1794. 
A southern and tropical species (PI. XXI, Fig. 78). It ranges from 
Long Island to Iowa, thence to Brazil. It has not been taken in northern 
Illinois and only rarely in central Illinois (at Urbana, Mahomet, and 
Topeka), but it is very common in the state south of the latitude of St. 
Louis. It is recognized as a pest of grasses in Kentucky,* and corn, 
[* The synonymy herewith is that given by Van Duzee in his recent Catalogue, 
Mr. Hart used the name lintneriana in his MS.] 
* Garman. Psyche, Vol. 6, p. 61. 
