STATE AGRICULTURAL, SOCIETY. 
750 
SAY’S HETEROPTEIIOUS IIBMtPTEIU. 
Above pale yellowisb-olive or whitish olivaceous, with dense 
blackish punctures and a few small, irregular, scattered, impunc- 
turcd spots: posterior portion of the eye beneath whitish: 
antenna rufous; fourth and fifth joints brown, excepting the 
base of the fourth; second joint considerably shorter than the 
third; a black lino from the base of the antenna) to the eye: 
thorax with the lateral angles rather prominent, angulated but 
not spiniform; lateral edge whitish and concavely arquated: 
hemelytra, membrano with small, obsolete, brown spots: ter gum 
blue-black, on the lateral margin with a pale dot on the middle 
of each segment; beneath yellow, with reddish points : with a 
black spot on the middle of each of the three or four posterior 
segments, the posterior one largest and oval: feet pale, with 
black points a black point at the termination of each incisure. 
Length seven-twentieths of an inch. 
Female with a black line on the middle of the 'one or two 
posterior segments of the venter. 
Length nearly two-fifths. 
This species is not rare. It resembles P. punctipes Nob. 
Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. vol. 4, p. 314, which is so common on 
thistles, &c. but is smaller and is distinguished by the ventral 
spots, and black points on the lateral edge of the venter. 
5. P. serva , Above pale dull yellowish, with dense black 
punctures: head with a black edge; a black line from the 
base of the antenna) to the eye: eye on the posterior portion 
whitish : antenna yellowish, dusky at tip, second joint hardly 
shorter than the third: thorax , lateral edge granulated and 
concavely arquated; lateral angles prominent, but rounded: 
scutel whitish on the posterior edgo; ter gum blue-black, with 
yellowish spots on the margins : beneath yellow, with a black 
point at the lateral tip of each incisure: feet with black points. 
Length one-half inch. 
Inhab. U. S. 
I have found specimens in Pa and Florida. It is larger than 
P. punctipes N. and the lateral thoracic angles aro prominent, 
but not angulated, as they are in that species. The punctipes 
also is destitute of the black points at the lateral terminations 
of the ventral incisuros. 
