No. 34-] HEMIPTERA OF CONNECTICUT: PENTATOMIDAE. 769 



The only specimen known to have been taken in New England 

 is a type in the Harris collection. 



Dendrocoris Bergroth. 



Small, broadly ovate species having the juga longer than the 

 tylus, and usually contiguous before it; lateral pronotal margins 

 more or less acute, without teeth, lateral angles rounded or obtuse ; 

 femora unarmed at apex; and tibiae sulcate. A single species 

 occurs in our fauna. 

 D. humeralis (Uhler). 



Bull. U. S. Geol. Geog. Surv. Terr., iii, 400, 1877. 



Pale yellowish, with dark suffusion and dense black punctation. 

 Length 6.5-7.7 mm. 



Usually taken in beating small oaks, also reported from Carya 

 and white pine. Hibernates as adult. 



Meriden, 10 May, 1910 (A. B. C.) ; Portland, 12 Aug., 1913, 22 May, 

 1914 (B. H. W.), 21 May, 1915 (F. W. Haasis) ; Stonington, 6 July, 1914 

 (I. W. D.) ; Killingly, 11 June, 1915 (W. E. B.). 



Subfamily Acanthosomatinae. 



In this subfamily the tarsi are two-segmented, and the frena 

 usually extend almost to apex of scutellum. The few species 

 representing the group in our region are rather elongate in shape 

 and belong to the section having a large sternal keel and the 

 abdomen carinate and armed at base with a very large spine. 



Key to Genera. 



Metasternal orifices with a short, broadly rounded canal Meadorus 



Metastemal orifices with a long, gradually tapering canal 



Elasmostethus 



Meadorus Mulsant and Rey. 



This genus, containing a single North American species, is 

 characterized by a depression and slight amplification of the pro- 

 notal margin just behind the lateral angles, which are thus made to 

 appear shallowly emarginate, and by the orificial structure noted 

 in the key. 

 M. lateralis (Say). (PL xviii, 20.) 



Het. New Harm., 3, 1831. 



Brown, more or less tinged with red or green, coarsely punctate 

 with black; apex of scutellum sometimes pale; connexivum 

 spotted. Sternal ridge moderately raised, extending forward over 

 prosternum and backward by tip of abdominal spine, which is long 

 and acute. Abdomen with a strong obtuse percurrent carina. 

 Length 7-9 mm. A very variably colored species, locally common. 



Canterbury, 14 Aug., 1905 (B. H. W.) ; Lyme, 29 May, 1910, 5 Aug., 

 1911, 30 Apr., 1911 (A. B, C), 4 July, 1911 (A. B. C.) (H. B. K.) ; Port- 



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