SUBFAMILY VII. RHAPHIDOPHORIN^E. 637 



four spines. Hind femora about as long as body, its upper and inner faces 

 very finely and evenly scabrous; outer margin of lower sulcus wider than 

 inner, armed with eight or nine unequally spaced short spines, male, un- 

 armed, female; inner carina with 13 or more small teeth, male, 6 or 8, fe- 

 male. Hind tibia? distinctly longer than femora, its marginal spines very 

 long and sharp; inner and outer median apical spurs subequal, slightly 

 longer than first tarsal joint. Ninth dorsal of male entire, slightly pro- 

 jecting at middle; supra-anal projected between the cerci, as a broad, fee- 

 bly concave lobe, with sides constricted near base and apex broadly 

 rounded; subgenital deeply cleft, its lobes with inner angles prolonged and 

 projected forwards, separated by a wide but shallow median notch. Ovi- 

 positor with four rather stout, triangular, nearly equally spaced teeth, the 

 hook short, stout, feebly decurved. Length of body, $ and $, 17 18; of 

 pronotum, 5 G; of antennae, 55 GO; of fore femora, 8 8.5; of hind fe- 

 mora, 18; of hind tibiae, 19.5; of ovipositor, 10 mm. 



Mobile, Ala., Sept. 14 (Lading.) Scudder's types were taken 

 by H. G. Hubbard from within the burrows of the gopher-turtle, 

 Xcrobotcs poli/plic ants (Daudin), at Crescent City, Fla. Hub- 

 bard (1894) states that in January he found the walls and par- 

 ticularly the roof of the burrow alive with specimens of the 

 CcutJiopliiliis, it being found in all stages of growth and in great 

 numbers in every burrow. 



R. & H- have recorded the species from Enterprise, Clear- 

 water and Jupiter, Fla. and Bainbridge and Thomasville, Ga., 

 their C. rir;/<ttipes (1904, 798) from the latter place being a 

 synonym. 

 305. CEUTHOPHILUS C/ECVS Scudder, 1894, GO. 



Size small to medium, body short, compact, robust. Above chestnut- 

 or dark mahogany-brown, the thoracic segments and abdomen with nu- 

 merous reddish-yellow spots, the former usually with a narrow pale me- 

 dian line; lower sides of thoracic segments, antennae, fore and middle legs 

 and under surface uniform reddish-yellow; hind femora with the usual 

 oblique fuscous bars. Fastigium ending in a prominent subcompressed 

 triangular spine. Hind femora as long as body, stout, tapering, the apical 

 fourth subequal; outer lower carina with 8 10 distant, unequal spines, the 

 middle ones the longer, male, with a few small teeth only on apical half, 

 female; inner carina in both sexes with a few small, equidistant spines. 

 Hind tibiae slightly longer than femora, their inner median apical spur 

 uibequal in length to basal joint of tarsus. Male with ninth dorsal very 

 short, its middle very broadly and shallowly concave, but slightly projected 

 beyond the eighth (PI. VII, 7?); supra-anal membranous, short, broad, con- 

 cave, its hind margin subtruncate or broadly rounded; subgenital in great 

 part membranous, deeply cleft, the upper outer angle of each lobe ending in 

 & very short, cylindrical, outward-directed projection (PI. VI, i.) Oviposi- 

 tor very short, the teeth of inner valves cylindrical, needle-like, more slen- 

 der and curved than in any other species; terminal hook long, very slen- 

 der, strongly curved (Fl. VII, s.) Length of body, $, 11.5 1C, $, 10 



