No. 34-] HEMIPTERA OF CONNECTICUT: PENTATOMIDAE. 755 



Tribe PODOPINI. 



Rather small insects having a tooth just in front of the lateral 

 pronotal angles which thus appear emarginate. 



Podops Laporte. 



A small genus of inconspicuous species, having the anterior pro- 

 notal angles produced in an acute tooth near the eyes. 



Key to Species. 



Size larger, length about 6.5 mm.; second, third, and fourth seg- 

 ments of antennae darker, lateral tooth of pronotum obtuse ; color 

 very dark brown cinctipes 



Size smaller, length 5 mm. ; second, third, and fourth segments of 

 antennae paler ; lateral tooth of pronotum acute ; color as in the 

 preceding parvula 



P. cinctipes (Say). 



Am. Ent, iii, pi. 43, 1828. 



A dark brown, densely punctate species occasionally taken under 

 stones, and in beach drift. 



New Haven, 20 Aug., 1909 (B. H. W.), 19 Aug., 1911 (A. B. C.) ; 

 Meriden, 7 Jime, 1914 (H. L. J.) ; North Branford, 15 June, 1919 

 (M. P. Z.). 



P. parvula Van Duzee. 



Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, xxx, 22, 1904. 



Very similar to the preceding, and known only from Massa- 

 chusetts through Van Duzee's original record. 



Subfamily Pentatominae. 



This large group comprises a great majority of the plant- feeding 

 Pentatomidae, including most of the injurious species. 



Key to Tribes. 



1. Body very flat, margins explanate; head with thin dilated margin, 



about as wide as base of scutellum, flat above; scutellum broad, 



scarcely narrowed apically Sciocorini 



Body not extremely flat and explanate; head not very widely 

 dilated, convex above when as wide as scutellum, usually narrower 2 



2. Juga in Nearctic species with a prominent lateral tooth near apex ; 



abdomen shallowly sulcate beneath, rostrum extending behind 



posterior coxae Halyini 



Juga without lateral tooth; abdomen not sulcate, rostrum shorter 



Pentatomini 



Tribe SCIOCORINI. 



The species of this group have a peculiar and easily recognizable 

 facies. A single Palaearctic species is rarely found in the eastern 

 states. 



