THE THREAD-LEGGED BUGS. 



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KEY TO FEMALES OP EASTERN SPECIES OF EMESAYA. 65 



a. Hind margin of eighth tergite between the processes decidedly con- 

 cave, the emargination broadly U-shaped; seventh and eighth 

 tergites with a median longitudinal bare and slightly elevated line 

 (fig. 26) ; side of eighth tergite subangulate posteriorly. 



505. LINEATA. 



act. Hind margin of eighth tergite between the processes nearly straight, 



the emargination nearly rectangular; seventh and eighth tergites 



lacking such a line; side of eighth tergite not at all angulate 



posteriorly (fig. 30). 506. brevipennis. 



505 ( — ). Emesaya lineata McAtee & Malloch, 1925, 81. 



"Female. — Knees of posterior two pairs of legs pale, the middle legs 

 with, the hind legs without, a faint subbasal pale annulus on femur; legs 

 in general pale, head and body dark reddish-brown. Apex of abdomen 

 as in figure 26. Length, 31 mm." 



The above is the brief original description of this form. The 

 unique female type, from Crescent City, Fla., is in the U. S. 

 National Museum. 



Fig. 127 



(After Lugger) . 



506 (709). Emesaya brevipennis (Say), 1828, 105; I, 106. 



Elongate, subcylindrical. Dark brown, in fresh specimens thickly 

 clothed with a very fine silvery pubescence; mesonotum and elytra dull 

 brownish-yellow, sometimes dark fuscous-brown with only the margins of 

 the former pale ; basal third of abdomen often red ; antennae brown, the 

 tip of basal joint pale; front legs with base of coxa? and knees pale; 

 middle and hind femora brown, with knees and a broad ring at apical 

 third pale; the tibiae brown with pale ring at basal fourth, sometimes 

 pale with brown ring at same place. Antennae filiform, joints 1 and 2 

 subequal, 3 and 4 also subequal, less than one-sixth as long. Beak reach- 

 ing onto prosternum, its third joint slender, acute, longer than the 

 others united. Length, 33 — 37 mm. (Fig. 127, and PL IV, fig. 1). 



Frequent throughout Indiana, July 5 — Oct. 25. Dunedin, 



'"•From McAtee & Malloch. 1925, 76. 



