82 Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society Vol. XI 



A NEW PENTATOMID. 



By Chris. E. Olsen, Maspeth, L. I., N. Y. 



Podisus fretus n. sp. 



Large and broad, ranging from 12.5 mm. to 14.1 mm. in length, 6.75 

 mm. to 7 mm. in width (across humeri) ; profusely marked with red and 

 reddish-brown spots and blotches (with a variable amount of purplish 

 tinge in them), especially on venter and hemelytra; humerus rounded and 

 without spine ; median ventral spine long. 



Head : lateral margins of cheeks nearly parallel, slightly widening before 

 the eyes and rounding apically; apical margin rarely convex; cheeks as 

 long as tylus, sometimes a trifle longer; widest part of head (not including 

 eyes) 1.65 mm.; width across the eyes 2.8 mm.; lateral anterior margins 

 dark, at times becoming quite black. Antennaj — color general dark red- 

 dish-brown throughout, covered with pale hairs, on first joint hairs are 

 shorter and more scattered than on the following joints. Rostrum fer- 

 ruginous except apical joint, which is very dark red-brown. Pronotum, 

 anterior-lateral margin forming a straight line from behind the eyes to 

 the humeral angles, but for a slight bend two fifths of the way from the 

 humerals ; a slight indication of a pale anterior-lateral margin, but here 

 and there the dark color will touch the edge ; dentations large, coarse and 

 irregular; humeral angles obtusely rounded and without spine. Scutellum 

 brown, punctures dark brown, mingled with dark red, diminishing in 

 size towards apex; in some specimens the punctures are very sparse 

 apically, giving the appearance of a pale apex, in other specimens the apex 

 is well covered with punctures ; hemelytra red-brown, punctures dark 

 brown, the embolium and posterior section of corium well marked with 

 red blotches in most of the specimens. Membrane yellowish brown, trans- 

 lucent, with a smoky elongate spot in the apical angle. Venter yellowish 

 brown, with numerous dark brown and dark red irregular spots and 

 blotches ; on the sternum there is a tendency to form some sharp lines 

 along the larger blotches, especially along the anterior-lateral edge; here 

 this edge is pale almost to the humeral angles ; ventral row of median 

 spots are large, dull and dark red-brown, the edge of which is not sharply 

 defined, but rather fading out; two similar rows of spots occur on the 

 venter, one on either side about midway between median one and con- 

 nexivum at upper abdominal segments and gradually diminishing and 

 drawing closer to the median row ; the spot in the median row on segment 

 just before genitalia is obviously larger than preceding spots; there is 

 still another row of dark brown blotches along the spiracular line; these 

 are quite different from the former rows and consist for the most part 

 in dark-colored punctures grouped in irregular blotches ; venter well 

 marked with dark brown dots ; in some specimens they are quite red ; 



