114 
Psyche 
[December 
cies to be considerably wider than that previously recorded, 
these have been re-described below. 
Dysdercus howardi Ballou 
Dysdercus hoivardi Ballou, West India Bull., VII, 69 
(1906). 1 
The head, except the black eyes, antennae, except the pi- 
ceous terminal joint with a basal eburneous ring, rostrum, 
except the piceous terminal joint, anterior callus and lat- 
eral flanges of the pronotum, episterna, each margined an- 
teriorly with a fine black line, legs, except the black distal 
joints of the tarsi, ferruginous (5’i-7’i-9’i) * the upper sur- 
face of a redder tone than the lower ; the posterior disc of 
the pronotum pale luteous (21”d), margined anteriorly 
with a very fine impressed black line, posteriorly with a 
narrow black fascia which is itself narrowly albido-limbate ; 
the scutellum fulvous (13’-13’i) ; the hemelytra luteous 
(19”), membrane black, the apex narrowly albidolimbate ; 
the anterior collar of the pronotum, margined posteriorly 
by a fine impressed black line, the epimera and the aceta- 
bula, eburneous; the abdominal sternites pale luteous, fre- 
quently with a greenish tinge (21”d-23”d-25’”d) , margined 
anteriorly on the second to sixth visible abdominal sternites 
with a narrow black line, broader on the posterior seg- 
ments, the fifth and sixth sternites of the male with a ful- 
vous band (13 J ) covering all but the extreme posterior mar- 
gin. 
The anterior collar and posterior disc of the pronotum, 
the clavus and the corium, thickly punctate; the epimera 
and acetabula more sparsely punctate, the rest of the body 
impunctate. 
The rostrum reaching in the female to the middle, in the 
male to the posterior margin of the second visible abdo- 
minal sternite. 
The male parameres with two spurs projecting down- 
wards toward the ventral surface; the distal one projecting 
* In order to define these colors more exactly the specimens have 
been compared with the plates in Ridgeway’s “Color Standards and 
Color Nomenclature” (1912), to which these numerals and letters 
refer. The words used to describe the colors, however, are those 
in common use and do not refer to Ridgeway’s names. 
