LUTEVOPSIS.—GARDENA. 167 
pubescent. Head with the eyes about as wide as the base of the pronotum, and as broad as long, smooth, 
convexly gibbous before the transverse groove, narrowed and globose behind, the eyes moderately large ; 
antenne very slender and exceedingly elongate, joints 1 and 2 subequal in length, 2 more than twice as 
long as 3 and 4 united, 4 twice as long as 3. Pronotum with the anterior lobe smooth and cylindrical, 
widening forwards, as long as the head, deeply sulcate along the middle at the base; the posterior lobe 
trapezoidal, wider and a little longer than the anterior lobe, densely punctulate, slightly depressed along 
the middle. Elytra reaching to the apex of the sixth abdominal segment. Abdomen widening from the 
base to about the middle, curved upwards at the apex, the genital segments exposed. Anterior legs 
comparatively short, the femora very minute denticulate and with four widely separated, very short, fine 
spines, extending from near the base to beyond the middle. 
Length 74 millim. (<¢.) 
Hab. Panama, Bugaba (Champion). 
One example. Easily distinguishable from all the allied forms by its pallid colour 
and the three clusters of dilute fuscous spots on the elytra. The four spines on the 
anterior femora are very short and fine, and not easily seen. 
GARDENA. 
Gardena, Dohrn, Linn. Ent. xiv. p. 214 (1860), and xv. p.64; Stal, Enum. Hemipt. iv. pp. 93, 96. 
The genus Gardena has not hitherto been recorded from America, though the 
commonest of the Central-American Emesids agrees well with Stal’s definition of it 
(Enum. Hemipt. iv. p. 93). This insect is very like Emesa longipes (De Geer), but 
differs from it in several points of structure: the anterior tarsi are very short and 
distinctly 3-jointed; the series of long spines on the anterior femora, which extend 
from a little before the middle to near the apex, are subequal in length, the femora 
themselves being about twice the length of the tibie. The anterior tarsi are 
bi-unguiculate *. 
1. Gardena americana, n. sp. (Tab. X. figg. 12, ¢; 12a, anterior leg.) 
Winged form. Very elongate, slender, reddish-brown or ferrugineo-testaceous, the meso- and metathorax, the 
thickened basal portion of the pronotum, and the base of the cox, piceous or black, the abdomen varying 
in colour from ferruginous to fuscous, the antenne fuscous, the anterior knees usually piceous; the 
intermediate and posterior femora with a blackish annulus before the tip, the tip rather broadly white; 
the intermediate and posterior tibiee narrowly biannulate with white at the base, the outer white ring 
sometimes followed by a dark one; the elytra fusco-hyaline, narrowly ochraceous at the base, the wings 
hyaline ; the body almost glabrous, the anterior legs pubescent, the head and thorax smooth and shining. 
Head without frontal spine, the eyes prominent; antenne with the two basal joints exceedingly elongate, 
subequal in length. Pronotum elongate, with the portion covering the mesothorax about one-third of the 
whole length, convex, and considerably dilated, the median portion very narrow and cylindrical, the 
anterior portion gradually widened forwards. Meso- and metathorax short, subequal in length, together 
shorter than the narrow portion of the pronotum. Elytra and wings extending to beyond the middle 
of the abdomen, about reaching the apex of the third segment. Abdomen very elongate. Anterior 
femora with a row of seven, rather long, fine spines of equal length, extending from a little before 
the middle to near the apex, and with some short spines between them. Anterior tibiee one-half the 
length of the femora, minutely denticulate and closely ciliate along their inner edge. Anterior tarsi very 
short, slender, with three distinctly defined joints, and two narrowly separated claws of equal length. 
* The anterior tarsal claws are described as simple by Dohrn, and bi-unguiculate by Stal. 
