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forwards, a little longer than broad, unarmed at the sides, canaliculate down the middle of the anterior 
lobe posteriorly, the anterior angles produced into a short tooth, the hind angles nodose and slightly 
prominent. Abdomen rounded at the sides beyond the middle; the sixth segment in the male subtrun- 
cate and feebly emarginate at the apex; the first genital segment in the female broadly exposed and 
trapezoidal in shape, the second segment very small and received within the apical emargination of the 
first ; the fifth ventral segment in the female cleft almost to the base, leaving the sixth segment largely 
exposed. Prosternal spines very short. 
Length 143-163, breadth 32-4 millim. (¢ 9.) 
Hab. Panama, Bugaba, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion). 
One pair, also a nymph probably belonging to the same species. Narrower than 
A. rapax, Stal, the type of which is before me, with the post-ocular portion of the head 
longer, the pronotum longer than broad, the prosternal spines much shorter, the small 
blackish spots on the elytra very distinct. 
STENOPODA. 
Stenopoda, Laporte, Essai d’une Class. Syst. Hémipt. in Guérin’s Mag. Zool. 1832, p. 26; Stal, 
Ofv. Vet.-Ak. Forh. 1859, p. 383; Hemipt. Afr. iii. p. 149; Hemipt. Fabr. i. p. 127, nota; 
Enum. Hemipt. i. p. 122. 
A Tropicai-American genus containing three or four described species, one of which 
extends through Central America to the Southern United States. ) 
1. Stenopoda culiciformis. 
Cimex culiciformis, Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 728 (1775)*; Mant. Ins. ii. p. 308’. 
Gerris culiciformis, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iv. p. 189°; Syst. Rhyng. p. 262*. 
Stenopoda culiciformis, Stal, Hemipt. Fabr. i. p. 129°; Enum. Hempt. ix. p. 122°; Uhler, P. Z.S. 
1893, p. 706", and 1894, p. 210°; Bull. U.S. Geol. & Geogr. Surv. i. p. 332°. 
Stenopoda cinerea, Lap. Essai d’une Class. Syst. Hémipt. in Guérin’s Mag. Zool. 1882, p. 26, t. 52. 
fige. 2, 2a,b*°; Amyot et Serv. Hist. Nat. Ins. Hémipt. p. 390, t. 7. figg. 8, 8a"; Guér. in 
Sagra’s Hist. fis. polit. y nat. de Cuba, Ins. p. 172 (nec Herr.-Schaff.). 
Stenopoda subinermis, Stal, Ofv. Vet.-Ak. Forh. 1859, p. 384°; Enum. Hemipt. ii. 122". 
Stenopoda cana, Uhler, P. Z. 8. 1894, p. 210 (nec Stal)”. 
Hab. Nortn Amenrica!!, Texas 5, Southern States?—Mexico, Presidio de Mazatlan 
(Forrer), Atoyac in Vera. Cruz (Schumann), Temax in North Yucatan (Gaumer) ; 
GUATEMALA, San Juan in Vera Paz, San Isidro (Champion), Coban (Conradt); NIcaRaGua, 
Chontales, San Domingo (Janson); Panama ®.—Co.Lompia!? 14; ANTILLES, Cuba ® 69 1011 12, 
Haiti, St. Vincent 7, Grenada § }5, 
We have received ten specimens of this species, including one larva and one nymph. 
The hind angles of the pronotum vary in shape, being sometimes produced into a sharp 
spine (as in all the examples I have seen from St. Vincent, Grenada, and Texas); in 
S. subinermis, Stal, they are moderately prominent, as in most of the Central-American 
specimens before me. 
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