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Hussey — Notes on Neottiglossa trilineata 
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Pseudofersia spinifer (Leach) 
Taken on the Florida Cormorant ( Phalacrocorax auritus 
floridanus ) at Great Sale Key, Bahams, July 17/05, by Dr. G. M. 
Allen. A widely distributed species of the tropics, frequenting 
the Man-o’- War-Bird ( Fregata aquila ), Gannets and Black Vul- 
ture. 
NOTES ON NEOTTIGLOSSA TRILINEATA KIRBY 
(HEMIPTERA, PENTATOMID7E) 1 
By Roland F. Hussey 
In Richardson’s “Fauna Boreali-Americana” (Vol. 4, 1837, 
p. 276, pi. vi, figs. 6, 6a), W. Kirby described and figured a Pen- 
tatoma trilineata, from one specimen “taken in the road from New 
York to Cumberland House” [Saskatchewan], and proposed for 
it a new subgenus, Neottiglossa, which he characterized, in the 
following words: 
“Nose shorter than the cheeks. Bed of the promuscis elev- 
ated on each side at the base. 
“In the typical Pentatomce, the part which I regard as ana- 
logous to a nose is of the same length with the two lateral lobes 
of the front, and the base of the cavity in which the promuscis 
reposes when unemployed is not so elevated.” 
Whatever may be said of this generic diagnosis, whose in- 
completeness led to the redescription of the genus under different 
names by Dohrn (1860) and by Fieber (1861), Kirby’s description 
of Pentatoma trilineata serves amply for the identification of the 
species, and it is surprising that it has not been better understood. 
Dallas (List of Hemip., i, 1851, p. 224) records the species from 
Hudson’s Bay and from Nova Scotia. Uhler (Proc. Bost. Soc. 
Nat. Hist., xiv, 1871, p. 96) placed trilineata as a synonym of 
Neottiglossa undata Say, in which he was followed by Stal (Enum- 
Hem., ii, 1872, p. 18). A few years later, Uhler (Bull. U. S. 
Geol. Geogr. Surv., iii, 1877, p. 401) separated the two species, 
^Contribution from the Entomological Laboratory of the Bussey Institution, Harvard 
University, No. 200. 
