No. 34.] HEMIPTERA OF CONNECTICUT I PENTATOMIDAE. 



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Brochymena Amyot and Serville. 

 Rather large coarsely punctate insects generally found on trees, 

 of a distinctive type of coloration which harmonizes perfectly with 

 the bark on which they rest. Juga with a large lateral tooth near 

 apex; lateral pronotal margins generally spinose or dentate; 

 membrane with branching veins. 



Key to Species. 



1. Lateral angles of prothorax distinctly produced in a short trun- 



cated lobe, not rounded anteriorly arborea 



Lateral processes less abrupt, rounded anteriorly, finely denticulate 2 



2. Juga extending much beyond apex of tylus, contiguous anteriorly, 



or separated and forming a long narrow apical sinus .' 



T ,.*,..,< quadripustulata 



Juga extending but little beyond apex of tylus, more or less con- 

 vergent above, forming a short sometimes transverse sinus 



carolinensis 

 B. arborea (Say). (PL xviii, 7.) 



Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., iv, 311, 1825. 



Antennae and legs distinctly banded ; mesosternum with a black- 

 spot. Lateral teeth of pronotum few and large; anterior tibiae 

 not dilated. Length 14-16 mm. 



New Canaan, 21 Sept., 1909 (B. H. W.), 22 Sept., 1910 (W. E. B.), 14 

 Sept., 191 1 (B. H. W.) ; Wallingford, 1 June, 1910, 13 July, 1910, 6 July, 

 1912 (D. J. C.) ; Lyme, 14 May, 191 1 (A. B. C.) ; New Haven, 5 Sept., 

 1911 (D. J. C.) ; North Branford, 8 June, 1912 (B. H. W.) ; Stonington, 

 14 May, 1914 (I. W. D.). 



B. quadripustulata (Fabricius). (PI. xviii, 6.) 



Syst. Ent, 704, 1775. 



Antennae concolorous ; legs rather indistinctly banded ; meso- 

 sternum with a black spot. 



Head elongate, the juga extending much beyond apex of tylus 

 and often contiguous before it. Lateral teeth of pronotum very 

 variable, but finer than in the preceding. Length 15-17 mm. 



Found on or under bark of trees, sometimes in large numbers. 



Westville, 16 June, 1898, 7 Sept., 1905 (W. E. B.) ; New Haven, 6 Sept., 

 6 Oct., 1902 (B. H. W.) ; New Canaan, 9 Oct., 1902 (B. H. W.), 19 Sept., 

 1910 (W. E. B.), 17 Sept., 1912 (H. B. K.) ; South Glastonbury, 18 Oct., 

 1904 (W. E. B.) ; Norvvalk, 13 Oct., 1904 (W. E. B.) ; Manchester, 13 

 Sept., 1910 (D. J. C.) ; Hamden, 9 June, 1911 (W. E. B.) ; Middlebury, 

 26 May, 1911 (W. E. B.) ; Wallingford, 15 July, 1912 (D. J. C.) ; West- 

 port, 8 Oct., 1912 (B. H. W.) ; Bloomfield, 2 June, 1914 (W. E. B.) ; Port- 

 land, 15 May, 1914 (B. H. W.), 5 June, 191.4 (M. P. Z.) ; Farmington, 11 

 June, 1914 (W. M.) ; Scotland, 13 May, 1916 (M. P. Z.). 

 B. carolinensis (Westwood). (amiulata Fabricius.) 



Hope Cat, i, 22, 1837. 



Base of second antennal segment narrowly pale ; legs distinctly 

 banded ; mesosternum without black spot. 



Head rather short, truncate anteriorly, the juga extending very 

 little beyond apex of tylus. Lateral teeth of pronotum small and 



