236 CONNECTICUT GEOL. AND NAT. HIST. SURVEY. [Bull. 



testaceous and dusky white ; front moderately inflated, disc broad, 

 flattened-convex, light above, marked with nine transverse, inter- 

 rupted, dark brown bands. Length 4-4.5 mm. ; width 2-2.5 mm - 



Vertex very strongly transversely depressed in median line, 

 anterior margin prominently carinate ; ocelli situated near anterior 

 margin, about equidistant from eyes and each other ; front moder- 

 ately inflated, disc broad, flattened-convex, obtusely angulate with 

 vertex, light above, marked with nine, transverse, interrupted, 

 dark brown bands, dark below, sometimes with a transverse light 

 band; pronotum broad, disc slightly depressed behind elevated 

 anterior margin, with numerous, minute, distinct wrinkles ; hem- 

 elytra minutely impunctured, clothed with a fine thick pubescence, 

 lateral margins but slightly divergent, abruptly cut off apically; 

 under surface black ; legs stout, black variably marked with lighter. 

 C. obtusa var. obtusa Ball 



Coloration very variable so that two extremes may be found : 



(1) Dark; a distinct, oblique light band from scutellum to beyond 

 middle on costal margins, which are narrowly white before ; scutel- 

 lum varying light to dark brown; vertex light, anterior margin 

 from eye to eye darker ; pronotum dark posteriorly, anterior two- 

 thirds lighter, the anterior margin and a transverse band, brown. 



(2) Light; same markings as above, only much lighter and less 

 distinct. 



Distribution : Specimens have been examined from Maine, New 

 Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, 

 Pennsylvania, Maryland, District of Columbia, North Carolina, 

 South Carolina, Tennessee, Ohio, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, 

 Illinois, Kansas, Colorado, and California. It has been reported 

 from West Virginia and Ontario (Can.) (Ball). 



Yalesville, 19 Oct., 1903; Sachem's Head, 1 Aug., 1904; New Haven, 4 

 Aug., 1904; Poquonock, 27 June, 1905 (H. L. V.) ; Scotland, 30 July, 1904; 

 Canterbury, 14 Aug., 1905, Poquonock, 27 June, 1905, New Haven, 27 Aug., 

 1906, North Haven, 15 July, 1910 (B. H. W.) ; Westville, 15 July, 1905, 

 New Canaan, 14 Sept., 1905 (W. E. B.) ; East River, 6 Aug., 1908 

 (C. R. E.) ; Brookfield, 27 July, ? (E. L. D.) ; Winnipauk, 4 Aug., ? 

 Kent, 10 Aug., 1918, New Canaan, 11 Sept., 1914 (M. P. Z.) ; New Haven, 

 15 June, 1922 (P. G.). 



C. obtusa var. achatina Germar. 



Dark, dorsal color markings absent; head, pronotum, and 

 scutellum fulvous ; hemelytra varying fuscous, apical nervules 

 accentuated ; front below and clypeus banded with light 

 transversely. 



Distribution: Specimens have been examined from Pennsyl- 

 vania, Ohio, Indiana, and Wisconsin. 



Brookfield, 27 July, ? (E. L. D.) ; New Haven, 7 Sept., 1922 (P. G.). 

 C. obtusa var. testacea Fitch. 



This particular form is unknown to me, and, following the 



