No. 34-] HEMIPTERA OF CONNECTICUT: PENTATOMIDAE. 763 



pronotal punctures more blackened along lateral margins ; 

 connexivum spotted. 



Juga not quite reaching apex of tylus. Lateral margins of pro- 

 notum slightly reflexed, lateral angles rounded. Connexivum 

 narrowly exposed. Form rather depressed. Length 8-9 mm. 

 Sometimes taken on scrub oak. 



Portland, 8 Aug., 1913, 20 July, 1919 (B. H. W.). 

 E. tristigmus (Say). 



Het. New Harm., 4, 1831. 



Usually dark in shade, with black punctation; apex of scutellum 

 pale ; connexivum spotted ; disc of abdomen with several promi- 

 nent black spots grading larger posteriorly. 



s Apex of head rounded. Lateral angles of pronotum prominent, 

 rounded or acute. Connexivum widely exposed. Length 

 10-12 mm. 



Common and feeds on a variety of plants, including pine, 

 goldenrod, mullein, elder, etc. The form with spinose pronotal 

 angles is var. pyrrhocerus H.-S. 



Torrington, 7 July, 1905 (W. E. B.) ; Westville, 8 and 30 July, 1905 

 (W. E. B.) ; New Canaan, 21 Sept., 1905 (W. E. B.) ; East Hartford, 13 

 Aug., 1906 (B. H. W.) ; Danbury, 15 June, 1909 (C. W. J.) ; Manchester, 

 30 Aug., 1912, (D. J. C.) ; Wallingford, 12 June, 1912 (D. J. C.) ; Port- 

 land, 29 May, 5 June, 1914 (B. H. W.) ; New Haven, 27 Aug., 1914 

 (W. E. B.), 16 June, 1915 (M. P. Z.) ; Colebrook (W. M. W.) ; Rainbow, 

 14 May, 1915 (M. P. Z.) ; Winsted, 14 May, 1915 (Clemens Kintz) ; Mystic, 

 25 July, 1915 (M. P. Z.) ; Kent, 10 Aug., 1918 (M. P. Z.) ; Clintonville, 

 •24 Sept., 1917 (W. E. B.) ; Cornwall, 28 Nov., 1919 (K. F. C). 



E. variolarius (Palisot de Beauvois). (PI. xviii, 13.) 



Ins. Rec. Afr. Am., 149, 1805. 



Pale brown, apex of scutellum usually lighter, connexivum 

 spotted ; ventral surface yellowish or greenish, the genital plate of 

 the male with a prominent black spot. 



Head rounded at apex. Pronotum broad, the lateral angles 

 acute, often spinose. Abdomen comparatively narrow; connexi- 

 vum more or less exposed. Form rather elongate, narrowed 

 posteriorly. Length 1 1 . 5- 1 5 mm. 



Often abundant in the fall on goldenrod, and many other plants, 

 and reported by Van Duzee to vary its vegetarian diet by attacking 

 colonies of Pulvinaria innumerabilis. Like the other species of 

 the genus it hibernates as adult. 



Mount Carmel, 4 Nov., 1902 (E. J. S. M.) ; Yalesville, 18 Oct., 1903 

 (H. L. V.) ; New Haven, 13 Aug., 1903 (B. H. W.), 22 Aug., 1904 

 (P. L. B.) ; Oxford, 21 May, 1904 (W. E. B.) ; Greenwich, 4 Nov., 1904 

 (W. E. B.) ; Norwalk, 13 Oct., 1904 (W. E. B.) ; Scotland, 25 July, 1904 

 (B. H. W.) ; Hartford, 19 October, 1904 (W. E. B.) ; New Canaan, 14 

 and 21 Sept., 1905, 10 Sept., 1908 (W. E. B.) ; West Haven, 27 June, 1905 

 (H. L. V.) ; Westville, 30 July, 1905 (W. E. B.) ; Mystic, 25 July, 1913 

 (M. P. Z.) ; Rainbow, 7 May, 1914 (M. P. Z.) ; Portland, 22 May, 1914 

 (B. H. W.) ; Torrington (R. H.) ; Hamden, 18 June, 1915 (Q. S. L.) ; 

 Wilton, 2 May, 1916 (M. P. Z.). 



