422 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



Whitish yellow, somewhat punctate with brownish dots, more 

 finely and less densely (punctate) beneath ; antennse darker 

 towards the apex ; posterior angles of thorax produced, sub- 

 acute ; scutellum not punctate at the lowest part of the apex ; 

 abdomen with each segment margined with a minute spot above 

 and below at base and at apex, and with spots placed in series on 

 both sides ; femora tawny, with an apical dot. 



I have been unable to obtain an example of this species 

 and have not included it in the synopsis. The insufficiency 

 of the original description was long ago pointed out by Pro- 

 fessor Uhler in the following words : ' ' The small differences 

 in the lateral angles of the pronotum and in puncturing do 

 not seem to me suffiicent to separate this from P. modestus.'* 



The specimens from which the original description was 

 prepared were collected in California. 



PoDisus CROCATus Uhler. (Plate 1, fig. 3.) 



1878, Podisus cynicus, var, obscuripes (Uhl. Ms.) Riley, Kept. 



U. S. Dept. Agr., p. 245. 

 1884, Podisus * crocatus (Uhl. Ms.) Hagen, Can. Ent., vol. XVI., 



p. 40. 

 1897, Podisus crocatus Uhler, Trans. Md. Acad. Sc, pp. 384-386. 



Throuo;h the kindness of Mr. Samuel Henshaw I have had 

 the privilege of examining several representatives of this 

 species at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, 

 Mass. Professor Uhler has also kindly given me a specimen 

 from Vancouver Island. I have nothing to add to Professor 

 Uhler's excellent description of the species. Its prominent 

 characteristics are : — 



Length, 15 mm. Body robust, reddish yellow, heavily marked 

 with dark-green punctures. Lateral lobes of head longer than 

 tylus, and bordered outwardly with a fine dark-green line. First 

 segment of antennae stout, reaching about three-fourths the dis- 

 tance between eye and anterior margin ; second segment about 

 three times as long as first ; third segment two-thirds as long as 

 second ; fourth segment one-third longer than third ; fifth segment 

 a trifle longer than third. Rostrum stout, reaching to hind coxte ; 

 first segment thick ; second segment but little longer than first ; 



* Misprinted " Podiscus." 



