THE THREAD-LEGGED BUGS. 



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loch as parshleyi (Bergr.), whereas in only the last one does it 

 agree with the tuberculatus of Banks. Moreover, an astute ob- 

 server like Say would not have overlooked the prominent tuber- 

 cle on the basal margin of pronotum if he had had in hand a 

 specimen of tuberculatus. 



494 ( — ). Empicoris nudus McAtee & Malloch, 1925, 22. 



Elongate, slender. Head dark brown, vertex with two curved lines 

 of fine whitish pile; disk of pronotum chocolate-brown with two white 

 lines which converge from front margin to the constriction and then 

 curve, diverge and end on basal fourth of disk; lateral carina?, Y-shaped 

 mark over humerus on each side and a line along basal margin white; 

 sides of basal half of disk pale brown. Antennas and tibia? annulate as 

 in armatus. Median tubercle on basal margin of pronotum, stout, promi- 

 nent. Front coxa? stout, distinctly shorter than pronotum, half as long 

 as femora. Joint 4 of antenna? half as long as 3. Length, 4.5 mm. 



Known only by a single female in the U. S. National Museum, 

 taken March 6 at Paradise Key, Fla. 



495 ( — ). Empicoris armatus (Champion), 1898, 165. 



Elongate, slender. Head and pronotum fuscous-brown, thickly 

 clothed with short white prostrate hairs, those on head forming three 

 whitish lines, and on hind lobe of pronotum two white 

 stripes as in key; pronotum with lateral carina?, edge 

 of hind margin and a small nodule just within poste- 

 rior angles ivory-white; elytra fuscous-brown, the 

 veins ivory-white and usually some reddish-brown 

 markings on apical third; under surface dark brown, 

 thickly and minutely pubescent with yellowish hairs, 

 the genital plate of male in part paler; spiracles and 

 a line on each ventral in front of them whitish. Joint 



1 of antenna? very long, reaching base of middle third 

 of elytra, annulate with 10 — 12 narrow blackish rings; 



2 shorter with 8 — 11 similar rings; 3 about one-third 

 the length of 2, 4 nearly one-half the length of 3, 

 dusky at base and apex. Pronotum with lateral 

 carina? entire, their front ends without knob or 

 process; tubercle on hind margin stout, suberect, dark 

 brown, its tip white; meso- and metanotal spines 

 white, subhorizontal or strongly inclined. Front 



femora setose, not spinose beneath. Ventrals impunctate or nearly so. 

 Length, 4—5.5 mm. (Fig. 126). 



Royal Palm Park, Fla., Feb. 28 (U. S. Nat.Mus.). Recorded 

 also from Sanford, Sebastian and Gainesville, Fla. Described 

 from Guatemala and Panama. Known also from Porto Rico 

 and Jamaica. The Ploeariola mansueta Berg. ( 1922a, 51, 80) is 

 a synonym. 



126, X 4. 

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