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14 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Jan., '92 



A New Aptenopedes from Florida. 



By JAMES A. G. REHN. 

 Aptenopedes clara n. sp. 



Type, $ ; Miami, Bade County, Florida; January 18, 1899. 



Collected by S. N. Rhoads. Collection of James A. G. Rehn. 



Allied to A. sphenarioides Scudder and A. rufovittata 

 Scudder, but differing from the former in the very much ab- 

 breviated furcula and the much more elongate cerci, and from 

 the latter in the longer and more decidedly falcate cerci. 



Size medium ; body moderately elongate. Head somewhat produced ; 

 frontal costa extending to the clypeus, sulcate through the entire length ; 

 eyes elongato-ovate, separated by a very narrow interspace ; antennas 

 somewhat heavy, uniform, terminal joint blunt. Pronotum cylindrical, 

 expanding somewhat posteriorly, above heavily punctate, the lateral 

 lobes moderately punctate, anterior margin convex, posterior triangu- 

 larly emarginate ; median carina well marked ; lateral carinae subobso- 

 lete, represented by a callous ridge ; lateral lobes longer than high, the 

 anterior and lower margin bearing a heavy, thickened margin. Tegmina 

 lanceolate, reaching to the end of the first abdominal segment. Abdomen 

 moderately elongate. Subgenital plate large, rotundate in outline viewed 

 from above, border hemispherical, internally with a median longitudi- 

 nally placed tuberosity, the anterior portion being considerably elevated ; 

 inferiorly considerably excavated. Supranal plate with sinuous borders, 

 the basal half narrowly sulcate in the central portion, the whole plate 

 bearing a pair of laterally placed deep sulcations extending to near the 

 apex ; furcula hardly recognizable. Cerci elongate, basal half tapering, 

 apical half decurved, falcate, bent inward, displaying a very marked 

 internal shoulder. Legs stoutly built, posterior femora just exceeding the 

 extremity of the abdomen. General color apple green (Ridgway's No- 

 menclature, PI. X), ranging much lighter green on the sides and lower 

 surface ; a line on each side extending from the eye to the tip of the teg- 

 men and the lower border of the lateral lobe of the pronoturn creamy- 

 white, one from the posterior border of the pronotum to the extremity 

 of the abdomen pinkish ; each stripe inferiorly bordered by a blackish line, 

 the median carina and the superior borders of the lateral stripes on the 

 pronotum marked with black, Face and antennae dull purplish ; anterior 

 and median limbs ferrugineous ; posterior femora with the superior ex- 

 ternal section blackish-purple ; tibia? violaceous. Measurements : 



Length of body 20.5 mm. 



Length. of pronotum ....... 4.5 " 



Greatest width of pronotum ..... 3.5 " 



Length of tegmina . . . , . . . 4.5 " 



Length of posterior femora . . n " " 



Four specimens examined, all males from the type locality. 

 Of these specimens three were collected by Mr. Rhoads in the 

 winter (January) of 1899, an d are now in the author's collec- 

 tion, and the remaining one, collected by Mr. Philip L/aurent 

 in the spring of 1901, was submitted to me for examination 

 by Mr. C. Few Seiss. 



