8 Joiin Todd Zimmer 



Of this form I have numerous specimens from " Southeast 

 Nebraska," Indianola, and Cherry, Holt and Dawes counties. A 

 large series was taken at Crawford in the latter county by Pro- 

 fessor Bruner and myself on July 7 and 8, 1910, on pine {Pinus 

 scopidorum). These individuals are very dark in color, some of 

 them almost a dark purplish or brownish with the pale markings 

 of deep red. 



I have a single female which I secured at Lincoln, September 

 12, 1910, which is apparently of a distinct species, but owing to 

 the fact that there is but the single specimen, and because the 

 characters which distinguish it from uhleri are comparative, 

 although marked, I prefer to leave the insect here with this note 

 until sufficient material is at hand to enable me to determine the 

 relationship with more certainty. 



Genus Mormidea Amyot & Serville 

 Mormidea (Melanochila) lugens (Fabricius). 



1775- Cimex lugens Fabricius, Syst. Eiit., p. 716. 

 1798. Cimex albipes Fabricius, Sup pi. Ent. Syst., p. 535. 

 1803. Cimex gamma Fabricius, Syst. Rhyng., p. 7. 

 1805. Pentatoma punctipcs Palisot de Beauvois, Ins., p. 113, Hem.. 

 pl. 8, fig. S6. 



Present in the eastern part of the state; Lincoln (February- 

 December), Roca, West Point. The species has not yet been 

 found in western Nebraska although it has been recorded from 

 Colorado. 



Genus Solubea Bergroth 

 Solubea pugnax (Fabricius). 



"^yyi- Cimex pugnax Fabricius, Syst. Ent., p. 704. 



1803. Cimex typhoeus Fabricius, Syst. Rhyng., p. 162. 



1805. Pentatoma orthocantha Palisot de Beauvois, Ins., p. 130, Hem., 



pi. 9, fig. 9. 

 181 1. Cimex typhaeus Wolff, Ic. Cim., V, p. 180, fig. 174. 

 1831. Pentatoma augur Say, Het. Hem., N. Harm., Ind. 

 1835. Cimex vitripennis Burmeister, Handb., II (i), p. 367. 



This curious little bug is easily recognized by its narrow, linear 

 form and its humeral spines abruptly pointing anteriorly. The 



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