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tered fuscous blotches (fig. 21) ; under surface of abdomen in great part 

 fuscous-brown; front legs dull yellow, the tibia? with one, the femora 

 with two, faint brown rings; antennae brown, slightly paler at base. 

 Head as in Carolina, the tylus more prolonged in front. Joint 2 of 

 antennae three-fourths the length of 3, the latter subequal to 4. Pronotum 

 slightly longer than mesonotum, the latter with lateral carina? scarcely 

 evident and median impressed groove faint. Elytra slightly surpassing 

 abdomen. Front legs with coxa? three-fourths the length of femora, the 

 latter with numerous bristle-like spines which vary somewhat in length, 

 but not in thickness (fig. 17) ; trochanters with one or two short bristles; 

 tarsi reaching almost to base of femora. Length, 8 — 9 mm. 



Dunedin and R. P. Park, Fla., Dec. 7 — April 6. Four taken 

 at Dunedin by beating dead leaves of cabbage palmetto ; a dozen 

 from the Park by beating fallen dead leaves of royal palm and 

 bunches of Spanish moss in the dense hammock on Paradise 

 Key. In its larger size, paler color and numerous slender spines 

 of front femora this form differs from all our known eastern 

 species. Recorded also from Cape Sable, Fla. 



V. Emesaya McAtee & Malloch, 1925, 74. 



This name is proposed by the authors mentioned in place of 

 Emcsa Fabr., since E. mantis Fabr., a species with different 

 generic characters, was named by Laporte as the type of Emesa. 

 The genus Emesaya, as briefly characterized in the generic key, 

 comprises very elongate, slender species having the head por- 

 rect, longer than wide, its hind portion strongly narrowed from 

 the eyes backward ; eyes relatively small ; pronotum one-half 

 longer than mesonotum, subcylindrical, subclavate, its front 

 end with two blunt tubercles ; mesonotum oblong, its sides 

 parallel ; elytra narrow, reaching middle of abdomen, the vena- 

 tion as in figs. 28 and 29 ; abdomen linear, its margins reflexed ; 

 front legs with coxae longer than pro- and mesonota united; 

 femora armed beneath about the middle with a long spine, in 

 front of which are four or five other shorter stout ones, with 

 numerous very small ones intervening; front tibiae only one- 

 third the length of femora, the tarsi reaching the longest spine ; 

 middle and hind legs filiform, the hind femora surpassing tip 

 of abdomen ; sixth dorsal of male ending in a long apically 

 rounded flap which covers the last ventral (fig. 27). Nine 

 American species are recognized by McAtee & Malloch, five 

 from the United States and two from our territory. Of one of 

 these only the female type is known. 



