No. 34.] HEMIPTERA OF CONNECTICUT I PENTATOMIDAE. 775 



June, 1916 (W. E. B.) ; New Canaan, 17 Sept., 1918 (B. H. W.) ; Green- 

 wich, 24 June, 1922 (W. E. B.). 



P. modestus (Dallas). (PI. xviii, 26.) 



List of Hemip., i, 101, 1851. 



Pale reddish brown, margins of head and pronotum, and base of 

 scutellum somewhat darker. Body beneath pale, with numerous 

 black spots ; abdomen with five rows, the spots of the median row 

 grading larger posteriorly. 



Lateral angles of pronotum prominent, rather acute, but not 

 spinose; lateral margins angulate; Ventral spine short. Form 

 oval, more elongate in male. Length 9-10.6 mm. 



Often taken in sweeping. This form, as understood here, is 

 very variable in size, some of the females equalling those of 

 maculiventris, although the average is much smaller. 



Meriden, 29 May, 1915 (H. L. J.) ; Woodstock, 13 May, 1915 ( W. E. B.) ; 

 Canaan, 5 June, 1918, Kent, 10 Aug., 1918 (M. P. Z.) ; Lyme, 16 June, 1918 

 (B. H. W.) ; Norfolk, 5 June, 1919, Farmington, 10 June, 1919 (M. P. Z.) ; 

 New Canaan, 17 Sept., 1919 (B. H. W.). 



P. placidus Uhler. (PL xviii, 25.) 



Am. Ent, ii, 203, 1870. 



Brown, with darker punctation, variably mottled and suffused 

 with red or piceous. Lateral margins of head narrowly black. 

 Lateral margins of pronotum pale ; membrane without dark stripe ; 

 connexivum spotted. Body beneath pale, with a few small black 

 spots, irregularly arranged anteriorly and forming two rows on 

 each side of abdomen. Ventral spine long, extending between 

 hind coxae. Length 9-1 1 mm. Taken usually in beating trees. 



Stonington, 7 June, 1906 (W. E. B.), May, 1914 (I. W. D.) ; Brookfield, 

 27 July, 1910 (E. L. D.) ; New Haven, 22 June, 191 1 (A. B. C), 24 Aug., 

 1914 (M. P. Z.) ; Litchfield, 23 Aug., 191 1 (L. B. W.) ; Wallingford, 191 1, 

 25 June, 29 July, 1912 (D. J. C.) ; Woodbury, 14 July, 1913 (W. E. B.) ; 

 Portland, 5 June, 1914 (M. P. Z.) ; North Stonington, 20 May, 1915 

 (I. W. D.) ; Killingly, 11 June, 1915 (W. E. B.) ; Rainbow, 24 May, 1915 

 (M. P. Z.) ; Lyme, 16 June, 1918 (M. P. Z.) ; Ansonia, 26 May, 1918 

 (M. P. Z.) ; Cornwall, 10 July, 1920 (K. F. C.) ; Middlebury, 9 May, 1910 

 (W. E. B.). 



P. serieventris Uhler. 



Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist, xiv, 94, 1871. 



Pale brown, tinged with gray ; head, anterior and lateral regions 

 of pronotum, base and middle of scutellum, and disk of corium 

 with prominent black markings ; connexivum spotted. Body 

 beneath pale, with darker punctures more prominent anteriorly; 

 abdomen with five rows of black spots, the median row grading 

 larger posteriorly. 



Lateral margins of pronotum impunctate, pale, somewhat angu- 

 late at middle, irregularly crenulate anteriorly; lateral angles 

 obtuse, slightly prominent. Ventral spine very short, not reaching 

 hind coxae. Form oval. Length 10 mm. 



