SUBFAMILY II. — ASOPINjE. 193 



aa. Humeral angles acute or subspinose; female genitalia with three 

 basal plates. (Subgenus Apcecilus) . 

 b. Connexivum narrowly or not at all exposed; basal median segment 

 of female genital plate quadrangular; larger, 17 — 20 mm. 



137. CYNICUS. 



bb. Connexivum rather widely exposed; median basal segment of fe- 

 male genital plate triangular; smaller, length, 13 — 17 mm. 



138. BRACTEATUS. 



136 (222). Apateticus lineolatus (Herrich-Schaeffer), 1839, 69. 



Elongate-oval, depressed above. Head, scutellum and front half of 

 pronotum brownish-yellow, thickly marked with fuscous punctures; 

 cheeks in great part fuscous; corium and basal half of pronotum grayish 

 with scattered fuscous punctures; front half of pronotum with an irregu- 

 lar impunctate fuscous spot each side, this enclosing a small pale one; 

 scutellum with five small pale spots across base; connexivals blackish 

 with a central quadrate reddish-yellow spot; membrane brownish-hya- 

 line with some vague darker stripes; antenna? brown, the incisures and 

 base of fifth segment paler; under surface dull yellow, punctate with red- 

 dish or fuscous; femora yellow, annulate and dotted with blackish; tibiae 

 brown with a broad pale ring at middle; last ventral with a large piceous 

 spot at middle. Antenme with joints 2 and 4 subequal, longer than 3 or 

 5, which are also subequal. Cheeks densely, irregularly, rather coarsely 

 punctate. Other characters as under generic heading. Length, 13 — 

 17 mm. 



Brownsville, Tex., and Huachuca, Ariz., (Barber). A neo- 

 tropical species listed by Van Duzee from Florida and Texas 

 without definite locality. In general appearance it closely re- 

 sembles Brochymena guadripustulata (Fabr.). 



137 (224). Apateticus cynicus (Say), 1831, 3; I, 312. 



Elongate-oval, subdepressed above, convex beneath. Above dull 

 clay-yellow thickly marked with small reddish or fuscous punctures; pro- 

 notum with two or three greenish dots behind the front angles ; mem- 

 brane brownish-hyaline; connexivum with a greenish-black bar across the 

 ends of each segment, the middle orange-red ; abdomen yellow, thickly 

 marked with fine reddish punctures, the angles of the ends of the ven- 

 trals faintly marked with fuscous; legs yellow sprinkled with reddish 

 dots. Cheeks finely, rather sparsely and unevenly punctate. Front half 

 of pronotum with a triangular smooth area each side of middle, this en- 

 closing a median group of punctures and one of the green dots. Scu- 

 tellum and basal half of pronotum with numerous wavy transverse 

 smooth lines between the irregular rows of punctures ; humeral spines 

 flattened, triangular, acute. Elytra minutely alutaceous, finely, rather 

 sparsely and unevenly punctate. Male with upper lateral processes of 

 genital segment rather short, broader and more flattened than in brae- 



